I Voted, So There

 October 28, 2024

   The newsstand at Walmart in Deming, New Mexico.

   Thanks to Paul Hoylen for sending me this. He swears he didn't move anything. I love it that even Taylor Swift is looking down our way with some admiration.

   I voted yesterday by mail. I think it's safe to say half the country thinks I'm an idiot. Take your pick. Both sides feel the same way. It's depressing, but there you go.

Daily Whip Out: "El Divisadero"

   How's that for a segue?

We Get Mail!

I've been reading True West off and on for decades and just discovered your YouTube page. I love it! I really appreciated your thoughts on the new Netflix Wyatt Earp And The Cowboy War show. Thank you for recommending to the directors that they get big gun historians like Paul Andrew Hutton on the show.  I love his book about Geronimo and the Apache wars. It feels like Hutton has been in every western show like this since the 1990s! Last episode my husband said to me "he looks old" and I said "so do we!"

—Jane Carter, Logan, Utah

For the record, Paul Hutton has appeared as a talking head on 270 TV history shows (including the writing of 15) going back to 1992. And, yes, he is old, but not as old as me!

Paul Hutton, at left, with Davy Crockett

circa 1835, I mean 1985. And that's Fess Parker in the middle who played Davy in the Disney show. And that's David Zucker, at right of the Airplane movies.

"It is striking how much more seriously we are likely nto be taken after we have been dead for a few centuries."

—Alain de Botton, 1969