We chose the name Campfire for a couple reasons: (1) one of Campfire’s core skills is telling stories — and you tell stories around the campfire; and (2) the real power of the campfire is the way one night’s audience becomes the next night’s storytellers, passing tales along.
Anyway a couple years ago I set a Google alert for the word Campfire. The alerts that come in each day are frequently for Campfires other than our own. Today’s were particularly interesting, ranging from profoundly disturbing to ordinary and mundane, so I thought I’d pass them along.
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Posterity to lose out on Zimbabwe’s wildlife heritage
“Recent media reports proclaim that the desperate government of Robert Mugabe is busy slaughtering elephant for its starving soldiers in the barracks and one wonders if these reports are true, how much impact the operation would have on the conservation efforts of environmentalist and animal rights activists…
“A Community Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) official, who refused to be named for fear of reprisal, said his organisation was in charge of the slaughter of the elephants and the distribution of meat to the army barracks.
“‘We kill the animals from regions where the population is very concentrated and we transport the meat using army vehicles to various army barracks. Although the operation is not noticed by many, it could have serious consequences on the animal population in the future if it continues unbridled. What we actually don’t know is what happens to the elephant tusks, which are handed over to the national parks guys
and the soldiers, it is rather scary,’ the CAMPFIRE official told the Harare Tribune.”
http://tinyurl.com/c3545r
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Lot 67030JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American, 1859-1953) Daylight and Firelight (Bawling Deer), circa 1940
Estimate $250,000 – $300,000Starting Bid $125,000
“Here we see Bawling Deer sitting near a campfire and smoking a traditional pipe. With this later work of Sharp’s, the focus has shifted from the portrait to the exploration of light. We see Bawling Deer’s face illuminated by the warm red glow of the campfire, while the top of his head and back are lit by a different, cool-toned light source.”
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6130675
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A World of Warcraft Campfire:
Simple Wood no longer needed to make campfires
January 24, 2009 – 2:13 am
Posted by: Justine
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“This is quite possibly the most game altering change Blizzard has implemented in WoW thus far: Building a Basic Campfire no longer needs Simple Wood, only Flint and Tinder or a Gnomish Army Knife. This is right up there with stackable clams! Personally, my mind is blown.
Okay, let’s be serious, this is actually a fairly decent (and convenient) change. Is it absolutely needed? No, not at all, but how many of us carried around Simple Wood and Flint and Tinder at all times? Who took those things to raids with them?”
http://tinyurl.com/ar9y9x
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Beer of the week: Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Maerzen
1/23/2009 8:20:07 AM
“Rauchbier dates back to the 1500s in Bamberg. The malts for the beer are smoked over open fires of beachwood, imparting a unique smokiness… This beer displays notes of bacon, venison and campfire. The taste offers up notes of smoky meats, venison, very dark, dry chocolate, caramel and campfire.”
http://tinyurl.com/abf893
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January 23, 2009
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What are some good scary ghost stories to tell around a campfire?
Filed under: Ghosts — admin @ 12:44 pm
“One Day a man’s car broke down so he called the RAA. They told him that it would take 3 days. So he Decided to go to the motel down the road. The person at the hotel gave him his keys and warned him never to go out of his room at 12:00 midnight so he took his bags and went up to his room, forgeting to ask why. So he went to sleep at 12:00 but he heard a noise coming from outside, he looked through the keyhole and saw a little girl wearing white skipping down the corridor, so he was about to go outside and tell her to go to her room. Then he remembered what the man at the lobby said. So he went to sleep. The Next day it was midnight when he was about to go to sleep and the same girl was there skipping down the corridor, but he didn’t do anything and went to sleep.
The Next day when it was midnight he was getting ready to go to sleep, but he went to look through his key hole again but all he could see was red.
As he was about to leave the hotel next morning, he asked the man at the lobby why did u say not to go out of your room at midnight, and so the man told him, there once was a girl who died in the corridor and everyday she skips down the corridor at exactly 12:00 midnight as a ghost. She’s white, and has red eyes.
As the man was leaving the hotel he realised something, when he could only see red on the third day, as he was looking at her, she was LOOKING AT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Comment by Rammy and Rima a — January 23, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
http://tinyurl.com/cf3g37
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Frenzied Waters, Campfire’s big summer campaign for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, was a huge success.