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🗓️ 20 October 2024
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Retired in 2016 after five terms as Colorado’s only Green Party county commissioner, Art Goodtimes has worked as a newspaper editor and he had a 40+ year run writing weekly and monthly op-ed columns for print and online publications including the Telluride Times, the San Miguel Journal, the Telluride Times-Journal, the Watch, the Daily Planet, the MontroseMirror.com, and Colorado Poets Center.
Art studied to be a Roman Catholic priest for seven years, and has continued to marry people as a Universal Life minister. Director of the Institute's Telluride Mushroom Festival for its first 25 years, he remains as Cultural Director and Poet-in-Residence.
His poetry books include As If the World Really Mattered (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, 2007) and Looking South to Lone Cone (Western Eye Press, Sedona, 2013). He was co-editor of the anthology MycoEpithalamia: Mushroom Wedding Poems (Fungi Press, CA, 2016). Turn Star Press of Telluride brought out a limited edition chapbook in 2019 that he co-authored called Telluride Valley Floor. Art’s latest book is Dancing on Edge: The McRedeye Poems (Lithic Press, Fruita, CO, 2019).
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0:00.0 | Rade humano papachango. Oh, Greetings Earthlings Earthlings, this is Chris coming to you kind of live, live as far as I'm concerned from Creston, Colorado 8,000 feet. |
0:39.4 | I live in the sky. The weather is constantly changing here. It's so cool. I've talked about it many times before, |
0:47.6 | but it's just like every day is a fucking show, rainbows and hails storms and then the sun comes out and then there's |
0:57.2 | thunderstorms and big dark clouds come in and then the sun comes out again it's just like you could spend all day |
1:05.2 | just sitting outside watching it it's fantastic and I was thinking about how |
1:11.2 | changeable it is and how unstable and how lovely that is and it occurred to me that's because I do live in the sky. |
1:21.0 | You know, most people, if you're in Los Angeles and you look up at 8,000 feet, |
1:27.1 | you'd be looking into the sky, way up into the sky. So it's interesting, living in the sky and the instability is something I love |
1:39.5 | about this place But simultaneously the instability of the world in terms of politics and |
1:49.2 | environmental issues and you know just every possible calamity seems to be coming at us right now. |
2:00.9 | I even read the other day, what was the story, like the core of the earth is slowing down to the point |
2:10.4 | where scientists think it's going to stop and start spinning the other |
2:13.4 | direction soon or something? It's like, are you fucking getting me? Now it's the |
2:18.2 | core of the earth I have to worry about? |
2:20.3 | Fuck. Anyway, this episode is with a really interesting dude I just met a couple days ago. |
2:29.0 | His name is Art Good Times. He's, I'll just read from his author's bio on his website. He served five terms as Colorado's only Green Party County Commissioner. |
2:45.0 | He's won numerous awards for political activism, |
2:49.0 | including from the Department of Interior, |
2:51.0 | U.S. Forest Service, Colorado Weed Managers Association. |
2:56.0 | Hey, congratulations for that one. |
3:00.7 | He served on over several dozen boards and commissions on local, regional, state and national levels. |
3:09.0 | He ran the Telluride Mushroom Festival for years, |
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