Horse Fly: You Had to Be There

Column for Horse Fly, Taos, New Mexico

Shortly after moving to Taos in the fall of ’99, I met Bill Whaley, publisher of Horse Fly. Who knows how it happened, but he asked me to write for the monthly alternative political and cultural newspaper and even paid real money. I can’t thank him enough. (The publication is extinct now, but Bill still cranks out the best real goddamn Taos news you’ll ever see at Taos Friction.)

The columns below are some of the best. Like with GRACK!, some of these ended up in BUFFALO LIGHTS and TAOS SOUL. If you read them, you’ll know why. Moving to New Mexico scared the bejesus out of me, and things were pretty rough at first. It still does, and they still are, but somehow I don’t mind so much. – JHF

Home Canyon Security

by John Hamilton Farr on November 18, 2007 · 0 comments

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[What follows is my latest column for Horse Fly, published locally on Nov. 15th. It's adapted and expanded from an earlier FarrFeed post and much improved!] Well, that was a short fall, I told myself. Fourteen degrees all of sudden was quite a shock, and I’d been burning wood all day. Most of the trees [...]

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“Frozen Promise of the Corn”

by John Hamilton Farr on October 4, 2007 · 0 comments

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[This is a sneak preview of my latest column for Horse Fly, to be published (if they'll have it) by October 15, 2007. It builds on one of the short posts below and takes it to a different place. I don't know how long this will remain up, so read it while you can, or [...]

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Boy Are You Lucky

by John Hamilton Farr on June 4, 2006 · 2 comments

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Well, that took a while. I just finished my June column for Horse Fly. The monthly paper has a Web site, but you really need to see the pages in your hands to get the gist of it. Regardless, here’s the full text of “The Yelling Man,” my contribution for this month. If you’re in [...]

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