DEEP PURPLE . . . As long as we're talking about television, you might want to check out a help-wanted ad on KTVA-TV's website -- if it's still there. They're trying to entice television videographers to Anchorage:
"Imagine this professional existence -- just 15 minutes from the station you find yourself on the edge of a precipice. It's a brilliantly crisp white day. The famed Aleutian and Alaskan Range volcanoes steam on your left. Cook Inlet's massive waters lay directly in front of you, and to your right lit up by a golden setting sun, Hunter, Foraker and the Great One herself, Denali. These three Alaskan gems dominate the horizon as seen from the crotchety sourdough's backyard who you happen to be producing a story about today. His bonfire crackles. His axe is furious. Whack! What a perfectly ordinary Alaskan moment. Eighty winters have weathered his face. His flowing beard is like the snow in which he loves to labor ... A moose wanders by. And the temperature is relatively warm! 'I'm standing in the middle of a postcard from the North Pole,' you think to yourself. . ."
Wow. Volcanoes, Denali, moose, the North Pole, all visible 15 minutes from Spenard. Who wouldn't want to work there?
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/09/10/2060795/alaska-ear.html#ixzz1Xg9di09V
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