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Vengeance is mine, saith the main character of True Grit, because I hath paid good money for it. So begins the saga of a trail of revenge from so-called civilized town to wilderness, a narrative trail so often traveled in westerns that it’s become like a tame, broad, well-lit avenue with stoplights. The players: Grizzled, troubled veteran with heart . . . → Read More: New Grit; or, The Coen Brothers Remake Retribution   6 comments  Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, State of the Union 2010, The Good the Bad the Fugly  coen brothers, cowboylands, hailee steinfeld as mattie ross, jeff bridges as rooster cogburn, john wayne, john wayne rooster cogburn, matt damon as La Boeuf, silver-screen western hero, true grit, vengeance in movies, vengeance in westerns, western hero journey, western journey, western movies, westerns Bemoaning a canceled flight is uncowboylike. Would the Duke have crabbed about a few snowflakes and a change in travel plans? Would Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn have groused about downscaling from flight to bus, which exponentially increases the chance of seat mate with bad breath, fartage capability, and/or x-treme chattiness?
No! As a poet friend reminds . . . → Read More: On Blizzards and Canceled Flights; or, The Holing Up of Cowboylands Writers are badasses. They have to be. The stereotype of a writer is a coffee-shop-writing fop in a cravat not needing to cling to a 9-to-5 job, but honestly, to get images to incarnate as black-and-white correctly spelled prose between a front and back cover with ISBN number, and read and critiqued and/or praised by more . . . → Read More: Of Western Writing and Dreaming; or, William Post’s The Mystery of Table Mountain 4 comments Cowboy Mythos, Origins and Originals, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web american west, Cowboy Mythos, james raymond, mystery of table mountain, novel writing, western book reviews, western reviews, wild west, william post, writing novels is great There is a strong possibility that during 2 a.m. sleepless dreads or after one too many shots of rye alone, your Silver-Screen Hero can turn into a shaking mass of insecurities. As for my 2 a.m. dreads, they too easily take the scenario of I am spending forever writing a novel; 4 comments Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, Reel Life vs. Real Life, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wrangling a Novel avon westerns, cowboy hero, cowboy up, novel writing, novel writing can suck, nurse genre, popular library westerns, pulp novels and paperbacks, reach for the skies, self-help, silver-screen western hero, station west, western cliches, western paperbacks, what would a cowboy do, writing novels can suck Two words: Special Features. If your Silver-Screen Western Hero wanna-be has a New Year’s resolution that entails learning to kick miscreant butt in showdowns then he or she is going to need a go-to pick-me-up for those . . . → Read More: The Modern Buckaroo’s Guide to Happiness; or What Else to Give the Silver-Screen Western Hero of Your Life 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Film Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly appaloosa, cowboy gifts, cowboylands, deadwood, deadwood blu-ray, gift guide for cowboys, reach for the skies, self-help, silver-screen western hero, the bad and the ugly, the good, western movies, western soundtrack, westerns Two words: Cowboy boots. Be just like Tom Mix. Or his boots.
A gift of cowboy boots will make the day of anyone who yearns to be someone special. The Silver-Screen Western Hero can only walk the talk because of the unique properties of cowboy boots, powerfully packed into a high heel . . . → Read More: The Modern Buckaroo’s Guide to Happiness; or What to Give the Silver-Screen Western Hero of Your Life Ah, the beauty of pulpish western cover art, filled to the brim with all the perfect 1950s western cover clichés, combined and intertwined in a perfect union of cinematic, pulp western majesty.
Can life get any better? You might recognize the title, perhaps? Anthony Mann’s films with James Stewart, such as The Man from Laramie (1955) are . . . → Read More: The Man from Laramie; or, The One-Two Punch of 1950s America Leave a comment Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Movie Quotes, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly anthony mann, cowboy code, cowboy diplomacy, cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, james stewart, man from laramie, Movie Quotes, paperback westerns, pulp illustrators, pulp westerns, silver-screen western hero, t. t. flynn, western movies, westerns, what would a cowboy do This Thanksgiving, in between shots of rotgut rye, I gave thanks to all the gods and goddesses of the western world that Flapjack42 has the epic psychic strength to haul the universe into righteousness with the continuing countdown of the top-ten list of the absolute worst animal-as-hero westerns EVER. Confused by life? Don’t be. Be confused . . . → Read More: Like a Mighty Cannonball; or, Can’t Stay Away from the Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Westerns 2 comments Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Uncategorized all hail flapjack42, animals as silver-screen heroes, animals in westerns, bad westerns, champion the wonder horse, gene autry, Movie Quotes, ricky north, silver-screen animal heroes, silver-screen western hero, top ten worst westerns, western movies, westerns |
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