October 7, 2024
When we bought True West magazine 25 years ago we also got two other titles with it: Frontier Times and Old West magazine. We sold off Frontier Times, but still own the Old West magazine name.
"Seems like you still care" and then for the doubters, "Let's see how this goes." This is how Ellen DeGeneres opened her "farewell" stand-up special For Your Approval. Given her recent cancellation for being "mean" and running a toxic workspace, I have to say I was rooting for her. She did over an hour of good material, then at the end, she simply said this: "After a lifetime of caring, I just can't anymore. So, I don't. . ." Long pause, "But if I'm being honest. . ." longer pause, crowd starts to swell with apprehension and support. "And, I have a choice of people remembering me as someone who is mean, or someone who is beloved, be-loved? Beloved? Be-loved," she rides this maybe ten times, and then ends it with this: "I choose that." Several in the audience stand and start cheering. Then more and more until she gets the big Standing O. Not sure it's worthy of a standing O, but she got one and you can't argue with that.
"The truth is simple. If it was complicated everyone would understand it."
—Walt Whitman
Daily Scratchboard Whip Outs:"Old West Types Galore"
The moral: Do dumb things until you get it right. There is no other path to the place you want to go.
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
—Winston Churchill
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Better.”
—Samuel Beckett
“[In sports] there’s a winner, there’s a loser. What I love about art is, it’s not like that. It’s about self-perfection. I love trying to make the absolute best film you can. Get everyone together and just do your absolute best. If you can actualize that, that’s the magic.”
—Richard Linklater
What's in a name?
Everything.
Given name: Louis Bert Lindley, Jr.
Stage name: Slim Pickens.
“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.”
—Orhan Pamuk
FWIW I really liked Old West Journal. I think there were 3 issues total and I have the first 2. Allen Barra did a great job interviewing Val Kilmer in the premier issue. Also that issue introduced the "I'm Your Huckleberry" tshirt and I am on my 8th one of those. Always get compliments when I wear it. Mark TW Maniac 235
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