Gotaas combs the world for true running tales, and comes up with some beauties...
True, the latest caper in Abu Dhabi is not the finest hour of this long running tale, but guess what?
So runs "The Tale of Tales," Tony Mitton's collection of traditional stories from many countries and cultures, liberally decorated with the kind of clever, rhythmical black-and-white illustrations one feared had vanished.
By the time the "History Detectives" folks run the tale down, they are not at Gettysburg or Antietam or one of the other marquee battles, but at Poison Springs, Ark., where in April 1864 a Union foraging expedition ran into Confederate forces.
Their debut album, released in March 1989, contained social commentary on tracks such as Say No Go, where Hall and Oates samples ran underneath tales of drug addiction and poverty.
But it was a mischievous voice that told Petro she could decipher the South -- assuming it's a puzzle -- by taping storytellers and running their tales through her personal software.
By and large, their taste ran toward tales that focused on economic disparity around the world ("I, Daniel Blake," "Ma' Rosa" and even "American Honey"), or that examined human corruption under oppressive societal circumstances ("Graduation," "The Salesman").
This innocent-man-on-the-run tale may sometimes feel over-the-top crazy, but it hits the mark regarding life under surveillance in the 21st century.
Peirce took inspiration from other true crime films, including In Cold Blood (1967), directed by Richard Brooks and the fictional love-on-the-run tale Badlands (1973), directed by Terrence Malick.
Travellers' Tales The prize for unpublished writers is a place on any travel-writing weekend in 2013 or 2014 run by Travellers' Tales ( travellerstales.org).org
