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Lost Souls Press Lives!

UPDATE September 2020: In order to rescue literary lost souls from publishing Purgatory, Jonathan P. Thompson is launching Lost Souls … More

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OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)

Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More

coal, Colorado Plateau, Energy, environmental history, Ian Thompson, Oil, Telluride, throwback, uranium, Writing

About that “drilling surge”…

The U.S. Department of Interior recently sent out a flurry of press releases announcing a major upswing in energy development … More

Energy, oilandgas, public lands, Trump

Still Life with Skull, and a virtual gallery

Over the last few weeks I’ve been uploading dozens — okay, almost 200 — photos and pictures that I’ve made … More

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The botched BLM move West

Four months ago — much to the consternation of many of my devoted readers and the delight of a few … More

Images from Utah’s (crowded) national parks

They walked four abreast down the paved walkway toward me, and had I not squeezed out of the way the … More

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Fine art prints of my photos and “paintings” for sale

I’ve been a photographer for a long time, and a digital “painter” for a little while. But it’s never really … More

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Methane madness and economic anxiety in northwest New Mexico

The meeting room was packed with people, many of them wearing the “I Stand With Oil And Gas” t-shirts that … More

BigBreakdown, climatechange, economics, Energy, environment, methane, oilandgas

Some recent work (digital painting)

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Industry’s strange and terrible beauty

A quick look at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory map for the nation reveals a startling fact: The … More

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