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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 We’ll find ’em in the end, I promise you. We’ll find ’em. Just as sure as the turnin’ of the earth. —Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), The Searchers (1956) The Meaning of Life was easier to know before World War II. They were bad; we were good. Since 1945, it’s been harder to maintain the line in the . . . → Read More: Did the Duke take the Myth to the Grave?; or, Tim Neath’s Search through Western Films 6 comments Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Movie Quotes, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Uncategorized, Wild Western Web cowboys in sheffield, creative spark 2012, did the duke take the myth to the grave, life in an abandoned town, martha and ethan, the searchers, tim neath, western art, western cliches, western movies, western themes Two pics from Django, Unchained are seeding the Wild Western Web. Be still, my beating heart. You’re making me type typos. One is of Leonardo DiCaprio wielding a hammer and Mephistophelian eyebrows, the devil with a red suit on, degeneracy signified by not only a cigarillo in a holder (instead of tucked into the corner of mouth, . . . → Read More: Clothes Maketh the Man; or New Silver-Screen Western Hero Django Unchained 5 comments Buckaroo Gear, Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Film Reviews, Reel Life vs. Real Life, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web charlton heston, cowboy hero, django unchained, hopalong cassidy, james stewart, jamie foxx, leonardo dicaprio, quentin tarantino, silver-screen western hero, spaghetti western, tarantino western, will penny Ponderosa Ranch meant wholesome family entertainment with guns and cowboys, and first lick of flame burning up the hand-drawn map of the ranch meant “Bring in your TV dinners, kids, Bonanza is starting!” Ponderosa Ranch (Autry Collections Photo) Check out the cultural landmark on display at the Autry National Center, a must-see museum in Los Angeles, chockfull . . . → Read More: Bonanza’s True North; or, Re-Orienting to the Cartwrights In the right hands, stories of sex, love, and murder go beyond tabloid sensationalism to reveal truths about the human condition, drawing not just tears and laughter but the somber recognition that we are all flawed (so get over it with wine, women, and/or song). As soon as Glenna Bell gets behind the mic with her . . . → Read More: Sex, Love, and Murder; or, Glenna Bell’s Perfectly Legal Tale True Grit has accomplished the impossible. Unity! It’s a miracle! It’s hope, change, and Old West dialogue all mixed together! True Grit has bridged the red state/blue state divide, Frank Rich of The New York Times writes. It’s a hit with coastal elites and Middle America family-values families alike, something that the blue/red mix of voters . . . → Read More: The Purple States of True Grit; or, Bridging the Gap, One Movie Theater at a Time 2 comments Cowboy Mythos, Film Reviews, Reel Life vs. Real Life, State of the Union 2011, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web coen brothers true grit, corporate malfeasance, cowboy code, essential western plots, frank rich true grit, purple states, red state blue state, silver-screen western hero, true grit, western film posters, western heroines, western journey, western movies, western themes, westerns 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 Cowboy accidentally fires gun in hotel. Is this what the Wild Western World has come to? “Accidentally”?
Aren’t cowboys–the rough-riding kind that gallop through streets shooting guns in the air, whooping and hollering and making schoolmarms dive for cover behind Randolph Scott–supPOSED to fire guns in town streets, saloons, and hotels? Oh, movies. Right. Where . . . → Read More: What to Do When You Shoot Up the Town; or, The Cowboy Code in Action 2 comments Cowboy Moments, Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Cowgirl Mythos, Reel Life vs. Real Life, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events, Wild Western Web american west, cowboy action shooting, cowboy code, cowboy hero, cowboy shooting association, cowboys gone wrong, holiday inn, what would a cowboy do Get it on! Another da bomb of a Wild Western Web find! Michael Jackson as cowboy, circa 1977. *swoon* Even through the anemic strains of a stoopit disco arrangement, you can discern the moves that made MJ great. Taking on the butch character of a cowboy/gunslinger, Michael Jackson’s dancing transforms classic western movie clichés into fetish objects. Check . . . → Read More: Get It On; or, Western Fetishes, from Michael Jackson to Appaloosa Leave a comment Cowboy Moments, Cowboy Mythos, Cowboys Gone Wrong, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web appaloosa, clint eastwood, john wayne, michael jackson cowboy, stagecoach, the good the bad the ugly, western cliches, western fetish, western movie guns, western porn, westerns, wild west Some days of Wild Western Web trolling yield zero results. Some yield perfect storms of epic perfection and all kinds of wonderful. God bless the Cowboy, especially in an Italian theme park. Cue Sauerkraut Cowboys. Once I got the memory of the taste of pickled-ish cabbage from my mouth (avoiding sauerkraut most assiduously since I was a . . . → Read More: The Wild Western Web; or, Sauerkraut Cowboys and Le Far West |
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