I am learning a lot today and getting great help in aligning historical contrasts, conflicts and mysteries. I am finishing New Mexico-Colorado writer Larry Calloway’s new book, Shaking Rio Arriba Down – The Courthouse Raid (Palmetto Publishing) … and taking a side trip to one of its references, historian Michael Welsh, https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol62/iss4/4 And from the …
Link — Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe Talk Donald Trump – Arts Intel “Flak Catchers” by François Busnel, based on interviews with Wolfe and Talese in 2017, published by Graydon Carter’s airmail.news. Uncredited photo accompanied airmail.news story online. Excerpts below. Note: This was written and published before the second-term Trump experience. I disagree with Talese’s …
I should have known that Daniel Boone was not the first in poetry to cry the words, “Elbow room!” Sure enough, it was not my childhood hero in the Arthur Guiterman poem titled Daniel Boone. Lo, it was more likely King John in Act V, Scene VII of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. …
The last three books I read, by three of my favorite writers, were all pretty thin. They were rewarding in my hands and my head. I didn’t get bored before the end.
At Cowboy and John’s, the new year resolutions are: 1. More lopin’, less mopin’. 2. More lit, less twit. 3. More César Millán, less carryin’ on.
I decided this Christmas 2017 to send the distant young ones cash instead of the gifts that first come to mind: slingshots, knives and warm clothing — clothing that despite my best intentions probably would instill childhood nightmares. I will dole out the money in sustainable amounts since I hope to live to be a …
from 2017 I was about to let loose with my latest personal essay when I encountered this buzzkill in The New Yorker: “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over.” I know I shouldn’t let my New Yorker reading pile up. I had heard rumblings of the essay crisis even before the May 2017 New Yorker piece by …
Came across so much good stuff lately, including: Flower photo from my sister, Hope Harper, in Helena, Montana. (I mean to ask: chocolate flower, golden aster, golden eye?) (And I hate to tell my New Mexico brethren, but that’s the irrigation ditch running behind her house). The several things in The New Yorker explaining Trump …
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