I took my kids to the Denver Art Museum over the weekend, and we got sucked into a great exhibit by an artist we’d never heard of, Mateo Romero. There were two paintings on display, the first being Bank Job … Continue reading
From a letter from Hemingway’s transvestite son, Gregory, to his father, found here. When it’s all added up, papa, it will be: he wrote a few good stories, had a novel and fresh approach to reality and he destroyed five … Continue reading
(Timeline mine.) Morning: Noon: Afternoon: Backstory from MachineGunBoards.com: How did a Thompson submachine gun cause a big rift between Hemingway and Mike Strater during the summer of 1935 in Bimini? Hemingway acquired the submachine gun from the International Sportsman, William … Continue reading
Few things enrage me like the existence of the FBI. All that horseshit we pretend to celebrate on our annual day of fireworks and flag-waving are null and void as long as the Bureau exists. Free people don’t have a … Continue reading
Thinking about Joe Bageant again, and thought I’d post a few quotes from Deer Hunting with Jesus that I particularly liked. And, don’t say I never did nothing for you, an outtake from M.A. Littler’s mighty Kingdom of Survival, Bageant … Continue reading
From Modern Drunkard Magazine, where you can find the rest.
When things get hectic, heavy, or harried I sleep less and I read a lot. When things get really hectic, heavy, or harried I sleep even less and I read Hemingway. There’s a certain clarity to Hemingway’s writing that I … Continue reading
Ernest Hemingway on the similarities between bull ring horse contractors and policemen, from Death in the Afternoon, which I’ve been re-reading pieces of lately. So, in the afternoon you see the picador ride out the little horse and if the little … Continue reading
From A Farewell to Arms. I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There … Continue reading
Guns, Books, Etc. The tactical sharpie. http://www.globalgear.com.au/prod521.htm Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4880/making_the_illegal_legal/ “The most important writing tool in James Ellroy’s apartment is his leather couch. For hours every day, the author … Continue reading
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