Thursday, January 23, 2025

Winning On The Roundabouts

 January 23, 2025

   It's this guy's birthday today.


   And here's a quote for Thomas Charles on his 42nd birthday:

"No one hates winter like a guy with an El Camino in the garage."
—Old Car Guy Saying

   Yes, for a brief time, Tomas had an El Camino and somewhere I have a picture to prove it, but I couldn't find it this morning, so you'll just have to trust me on this one.

Kid Ross Memorialized
   This is a tintype of my amigo Kid Ross, taken last weekend. 
Kid Ross And His Fave Stuff
 
  As he puts it, "This is all my passions in one shot: Ned Kelly's helmet. Willie Mays' catch. Baseball bats. Two jars of old paint brushes. A 'murmillo' gladiator helmet. A steel raven. My Winchester .45 and behind me a lance and a harpoon. I'm holding the flintlock rifle I used in a documentary on Davy Crockett that I was in (the Alamo sequence!).  I'm also wearing a Custer shirt, my two .357's in a holster made for me using the same pattern as Jesse James had on his gun belt, and my 145 year old horse hair coat with my 'trail boss' hat, that Rusty gave me many years ago, perched on my head along with my favorite scarf. Also, the numbers on the back of Willie are reversed because this IS a tintype!"
   Speaking of famous tintypes, Kid Ross and I are planning a big Billy the Kid art show next fall to feature 20 of our best Billy paintings and a sculpture of the Kid Shrine that Buckeye Blake is finishing even as you read this.



    After our show in Scottsdale, the Kid Shrine will end up at the Fort Sumner Museum in Old Fort Sumner New Mexico sometime in 2026.

The Roundabout Reference

"I consider that I have been a fortunate woman and have had a happy life, by and large. I can survive tragedy, not through self-delusion but through acceptance. I accept. I don’t mean that I accept cruelty or hypocrisy or injustice. I accept whatever happens to me. What you lose on the swings you win on the roundabouts.”

—Helen Lawrenson, who wrote the infamous Esquire magazine piece, "Latins Are Lousy Lovers"

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