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Showing posts with label wild west. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wild west. Show all posts

Friday, February 20, 2009

I'm not kidding.

this is the best sleeve I've ever seen. I wouldn't necessarily choose the clint eastwood still in the middle of the ocean scene, but it is sweet on its own, and the undersea sleeve is incredible. I love it like whoa

I'm not kidding.

this is the best sleeve I've ever seen. I wouldn't necessarily choose the clint eastwood still in the middle of the ocean scene, but it is sweet on its own, and the undersea sleeve is incredible. I love it like whoa

Thursday, August 14, 2008

. . . the lady that's known as Lou

usually I find poetry tedious and boring, but sometimes I come across a poem that I love (hello j. alfred prufrock). also I was never into the 1800s wild west sort of shit (except for I want a framed picture of me, mr jones, and our titty MisMis dressed up in one of those sepia sears photo shoots from a saloon), but after reading this lovely bit I kinda can see how people romanticize it.



The Shooting Of Dan McGrew by Robert Service

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.

When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,
Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.


read the rest of it here (sorta long)


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and here are some of those old-timey horribly wonderful fake photo shoots that people in the midwest get done from jc penney.





. . . the lady that's known as Lou

usually I find poetry tedious and boring, but sometimes I come across a poem that I love (hello j. alfred prufrock). also I was never into the 1800s wild west sort of shit (except for I want a framed picture of me, mr jones, and our titty MisMis dressed up in one of those sepia sears photo shoots from a saloon), but after reading this lovely bit I kinda can see how people romanticize it.



The Shooting Of Dan McGrew by Robert Service

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.

When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare,
There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear.
He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse,
Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house.


read the rest of it here (sorta long)


-------

and here are some of those old-timey horribly wonderful fake photo shoots that people in the midwest get done from jc penney.