Reports from Dark Acres is a journal devoted to current events, sports, and the arts, written mostly by Bill Vaughn, with occasional outbursts from cartoonists and other writers. You’ll also find in these pages a novel in 59 parts, Gift With Purchase, personal recollections called Scavenge, and other squibs that don’t fit into a category and so fall under the heading of Oddments. Look for new Reports from Dark Acres from time to time.

Bill Vaughn is a contributing editor for Outside Magazine, and the author of First, a little Chee-Chee, a collection of essays about extremely weird sports. His articles have appeared in Outside, The Men's Journal, Ski, Salon, AARP, New West, numerous other publications, and in a dozen anthologies, including The Best American Magazine Writing 2001, and Dog Is My Co-Pilot, a New York Times best-seller. He also wrote the introduction to a photography collection from Norton called Hip Hop Hares.

The most recent of Vaughn's contributions to books is an essay about ranching in Working America, a coffee-table tome published by Toyota.

Check out the cover story Vaughn wrote about Monster Garage star Jesse James in the October 2006 issue of Men's Journal.

New Line Cinema has optioned "Being Prepared," Vaughn's account of becoming an Eagle Scout at the age of 50. Smart Entertainment will produce the picture, whose working title is Man Scout, from a screenplay written by David Dorfmen (Anger Management).

That’s Vaughn up there in the banner, riding Scarlett, his palomino mare. His wife, Kitty, is next to him, sitting on her paint gelding, the incomparable Rolex. The place? Dark Acres.

To contact Vaughn with questions and comments or queries about advertising in these pages please email him at:

darkacres@montana.com

Photograph above by James Minchin. See his website at: jamesminchin.com