Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary Entries

If you've ever wondered what it's like to run a magazine or how crazy my personal life is, be sure to read the behind-the-scenes peek at the daily trials and tribulations of running True West. Culled straight from my Franklin Daytimer, it contains actual journal entries, laid out raw and uncensored. Some of it is enlightening. Much of it is embarrassing, but all of it is painfully true. Are you a True West Maniac? Get True West for LIFE...Click here!

Friday, August 03, 2007

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August 3, 2007 Bonus Bonus Blog Worked all afternoon on our big doubletruck ad for Mickey Free in the October issue. Robert Ray submitted...

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August 3, 2007 Bonus Blog Cleaning sometimes has its own rewards: this morning I was picking up the house and studio for Patti, the clean...

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August 3, 2007 Hosted visiting dignitaries last night at Cartwright's next door. Fine meal and fine discussions about the future of T...

Thursday, August 02, 2007

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August 2, 2007 Bonus Bonus Blog Here is the well-known Remington pen and ink of his methodology while sketching on the San Carlos reserva...

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August 2, 2007 Bonus Blog Well, I knew my "Jesus People" would know the answer, but I didn't realize the actual quote would...

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August 2, 2007 Woke up at midnite, mulling my messes. Much to mull. Retrieved my daytimer and wrote down some problems, some solutions, s...

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

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August 1, 2007 Bonus, Bonus Blog Here's something I haven't been doing much of lately. A nice, clean scratchboard of Mr. Frederic...

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August 1, 2007 Bonus Blog More storm stories. Virtually everyone I ran into today was stuck somewhere last night and couldn't get hom...

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August 1, 2007 Finally crossed Grapevine Wash at 11:10 P.M. last night. The flooding ripped out huge chunks of asphalt and trees. The cit...

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

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July 31, 2007 Bonus Blog Can't go home. Waited too long at the office. Took off at about six, with rain really coming down and made i...

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July 31, 2007 Just started to rain (5:45 P.M.). Sky is dark. Still at work. Stressed to the gills. Trying to finish the storyboarding o...

Monday, July 30, 2007

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July 30, 2007 Jason just came in and inundated us with gifts from the San Diego Comic Con. Huge shopping bags (3'X3' with "S...

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July 29, 2007 Yesterday was our 28th wedding anniversary. Celebrated by eating a bean burro, alone. Ha. Got a very cool stagecoach pos...

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July 28, 2007 Kathy is now docked in Peru, visiting Tomas. I sent her an update on what is going on back home. Here is my message: Went to...

Friday, July 27, 2007

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July 27, 2007 Well, all I can say is God Bless the internet. Blog reader John Culligan sent me this Franklin Mint replica of a stagecoach ...

Thursday, July 26, 2007

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July 26, 2007 I called Bruce Dinges at the Arizona Historical Society down in Tucson to find out about the three-seated stagecoach they h...

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July 26, 2007 As promised here is one of the opening spreads for Mickey Free. The narrator, of course, is Frederick Remington: Mickey Fre...

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July 26, 2007 My request for a three-seat stagecoach paid off immediately (note to self: keep writing blog!): "You will find what yo...

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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July 25, 2007 Bonus Blog Samantha Somers took some excellent photos of the deluge on Monday. This is looking off the front porch of the T...

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July 25, 2007 Been swimming every day, although I missed on the big rain day. Feels good. Need to exercise more. My three chickens (there...

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Bob Boze Bell: Bob Boze Bell's work has appeared in Arizona Highways, Playboy, National Lampoon, the Arizona Republic and True West magazine. For ten years (2002-20012) he did a video version of True West Moments which ran on the Westerns Channel. BBB can currently be seen on the series "Gunslingers" which runs on the American Heroes Channel. Triple B is also the President and executive editor of True West magazine, positions he has held since 1999. He has written a dozen books on Old West characters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok and a three-part series (so far) on Classic Gunfights which appear in True West. These popular, heavily illustrated books have sold over 90,000 copies, so far. In 2014 he published a visual memoir of growing up on Route 66 called "The 66 Kid," and he is currently working on a bio of Geronimo. As for retirement, BBB says, "Work is only work if you'd rather be someplace else. And I'm exactly where I want to be."

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