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VERY pleased to announce an excellently fun gig with History Channel–the daunting task of recommending a series of westerns to savvy history buffs. Check out my recs at their History Shop (oh, and buy some westerns for holiday gifts, especially if you or your friend/lover/pard is the laconic hero type!). As a special bonus for this roundup of . . . → Read More: A Fistful of Westerns; or, History Channel Rounds Up Bucko’s Greatest Westerns   2 comments  Best Western Lists, CowboyLands Lists, Film Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web  acid western, b-westerns, Bucko of Cowboylands, classic westerns, cowboy hero, essential western plots, feminist western, greatest westerns, History Channel, modern westerns, revisionist western, silver-screen western hero, western movies 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 The deadline hit my shoulder with the force of a bullet and the reins of the stagecoach dropped from my nerveless hands. The coach careened across the dusty road as its six horses, freed from my steady presence on the reins, bolted. The passengers–my beloved characters–shrieking, I tried in vain to pull the brake but nearly . . . → Read More: The Curse of the Return of; or, One More of the Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Westerns Leave a comment Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, Reel Life vs. Real Life, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web, Wrangling a Novel animal heroes, animals as silver-screen heroes, cliffhangers, cowboylands, flapjack42 rocks, Movie Quotes, novel writing hell, rin tin tin III, robert blake, silver-screen animal heroes, tin tin tin, top ten worst westerns, western movies, westerns The chasm yawns below me. My fingers ache from their grip on the rock; my feet kick wildly for purchase, nothing between them and novel-revision and work deadlines except dead air–and too few hours. I feel my fingers giving and I regret the many hours I spent on Twitter rather than doing finger exercises, and I . . . → Read More: The Good, the Bad and the Rinty; or, Another of the Worst Silver-Screen Animal Hero Westerns 10 comments Best Western Lists, CowboyLands Lists, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wrangling a Novel animal heroes, animals in westerns, b-westerns, cowboylands, mighty flapjack42, Movie Quotes, reach for the skies, rin tin tin, serials, silver-screen animal heroes, silver-screen western hero, the lightning warrior, top ten worst westerns, western movies, westerns The Number One Silver-Screen Western Drinking Cliché Real men drink whiskey, right? Wrongo. Example #1: Destry Rides Again (1939) In which the new sheriff in town turns every expectation the town has about him upside down. Deputy Thomas Jefferson Destry, Jr., (James Stewart) arrives in town with a killer reputation to clean it up . . . → Read More: Real Men Drink Milk; or, Overturning Wild Western Clichés 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, Reach for the Skies! alan ladd, ben johnson, cowboy code, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, destry rides again, destry saloon fight, doc holliday vs. ringo kid, drinking in westerns, james stewart, Movie Quotes, ringo kid vs. doc hollicay, saloons in westerns, shane saloon scene, shane soda pop scene, shotglass in western, silver-screen western hero, tombstone, western cliches, western movies, western wimps, westerns, whiskey in westerns “Quick! Get your horses! it’s time to rescue the bad guy and shoot the girl! I mean…” Whoa, dude. That’s how Flapjack42 began, as soon as I asked her to write about these animal hero movies she’d been watching. No, Flapjack42 isn’t a glutton for B-movie punishment–she is a connoisseur of all westerns, whether they be . . . → Read More: Animals Can So Be Heroes, Too; or An Epic Cowboylands Top 10 Guest Post 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Film Reviews, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, The Good the Bad the Fugly animal movies, animal westerns, b movie, can't believe these were so fricking popular, champion the wonder horse, cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, flapjack, flapjack rocks, Movie Quotes, phantom empire, rin tin tin, sergeant preston, silver-screen western hero, westerns, yukon king Revise what? Nothing less than the ideals of Manifest Destiny, which proclaimed the superiority of European white manly manliness. As soon as westerns became awesome, they began revising, folding, mutilating, and spindling this textbook tripe. A little western history: The heroes in pre-1939 Westerns had to follow five commandments: Thou shalt be white, male, heterosexual asexual. The most satisfying part of a quiz are the answers. It’s as if having something hard and fast–a yes/no/write/wrong/you are this/you are that–keeps all the demons of uncertainty at bay and hence make us happier and more satisfied, right? Who wants to be consumed by doubt when so much is at stake (you, your love interest, . . . → Read More: Which Silver-Screen Western Hero Are You?; or Part III, The Answers 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, CowboyLands Lists, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, What Would Gary Cooper Do? cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, cowboy quiz, cowboylands, reach for the skies, silver-screen western hero, silver-screen western hero quiz, western hero quiz Another movie for the Iranian president to see, or any other person who yearns to be a movie-type cowboy instead of a real one. Lonely Are the Brave, filmed in 1962 with Kirk Douglas as the drifter rejecting the modern West, and the great Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau as his costars. 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, Wild Western Web cowboy code, Cowboy Mythos, edward abbey, kirk douglas, lonely are the brave, Movie Quotes, paperback westerns, pulp illustrators, roy gifford, the brave cowboy, western movies, westerns “…the beauty of things that can’t be known for sure.” Mining Equipment (Throat Obstruction Demo), Mining Museum, Silverton Colorado © 2008 es These words absolutely do not address the queasiness I feel when I wonder about the motivations of a certain plumber-cum-Republican mascot. Instead they describe the Museum of Jurassic Technology, a larger-than-life cabinet of wonders beside an . . . → Read More: Beauty, Eye, Beholder |
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