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graveyard of DOOM index < | > So I'm googling away (does that need a capital these days? has the Macquarie acknowledged the verb "to google" yet? I can't imagine it's too far off, if it hasn't already) on my name, like you do (well, like I do, anyway) to check if anyone's written any new reviews about Man Bites Dog and stuff, and I'm getting all the usual suspects - this web site, the Going Down Swinging page with my bio on it, the CV of the actor guy with the same name as me, something about a new book about US serial killer Wayne Adam Ford, a few old reviews of Man Bites Dog, stuff about the graphic designer guy with the same name as me... the usual. Then all of a sudden I find a page making reference to "Adam Ford, Missouri". WTF? There's a town called "Adam Ford"? You bet your sweet bippy. Also a Casey Ford, a Harrill Ford and a Clark Ford. Reckon that'd have to have something to do with rivers, don't you?
But I digress. Ladies and Gents, allow me to take you on a tour of Adam Ford, deep in the heart of Laclede County, MO, only five miles northwest from the Texas county border (not to be confused with the Texas state border, which is over three hundred miles to the southwest) and three miles due west from Fort Leonard Wood Military Reserve. Well, I would if I could, but I just can't find out anything about Adam Ford, MO other than its latitude (37.62 degrees North), longitude (92.33 degrees West) and its elevation (925 feet). Apparently there's some good fishing to be had in the nearby Gasconade River, which flows past on its northwest journey from the legendary Ozark Mountains, but that's all that the interweb has to say on the matter. And so I turn to you, my loyal regular readers. Working on the six-degrees-of-separation principle, it stands to reason that someone reading this blog entry knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who lives in Missouri, or maybe even in or very close to Laclede itself. What I want to do is find that person and ask them very humbly if they wouldn't mind taking a photo of the main street of Adam Ford, MO, and emailing it to me for proud display somewhere on this site. Hell, it doesn't have to be a photo - I'm after any information at all that I can find about the place. Anecdotes, gossip, population and industry statistics, road maps... I want it all. I want to know this town like the back of my hand, and I can't afford the plane fare. So it's up to you, dear reader, to help me in this asinine and self-centred quest. If there's a better use for the internet, I dare you to name it. Anyone else out there who's got the same name as a town or city? |
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