Leftover Coyotes

February 28, 2012 Animals
Yes, another coyote.

These were going to go on FotoFeed, but three days of coyotes there is enough. Lucky you, you get to see them now. What happened was, we were at Orillo Verde near Pilar, driving slowly south. My wife spotted a coyote on the other side of the Rio Grande, and we followed along for about [...]

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Rift Valley Whispers

February 27, 2012 Juan del Llano
you know what the coyote means, right?

Juan del Llano had had enough. Not only was his musty rented adobe hovel an affront to human dignity, he couldn’t even blow off steam by taking a nice long walk. If it wasn’t the neighborhood dogs that gave him pause, the inevitable mud would. He was tired of having to clean his shoes, angry [...]

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When Geese Ruled the Earth

February 23, 2012 Welded Steel
giant goose skull sculpture

Here’s the second exhibit for the Welded Steel wing of the FarrFeed gallery. This is one of my larger pieces at almost five feet long and just as tall, entitled appropriately “When Geese Ruled the Earth.” (1991) As you can see—I hope—the sculpture is loosely based on a Canada goose skull from the vast collection [...]

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Real Taos™ Mystery Innovation

February 22, 2012 Taos
woodstove in a closet

Out here where the realtors hope you rich rubes will never go is a different kind of Taos. I know, because it gets all over my shoes this time of year. Be that as it may, there’s something you ought to see. We don’t do things half-way in El Norte, no sir, and the last [...]

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Teresa, Austin, SXSW & My Little Path Through Life

February 21, 2012 Teresa
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All I was doing was watching my Twitter stream. I clicked on a link, and then the tears began. I never expect it, and there’s no telling what will set it off. This time it was a simple note about an SXSW event. The South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW) has been raising [...]

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Alien Rat

February 20, 2012 Welded Steel
alien rat

Behold, the first addition to the Welded Steel wing of my new Gallery section! No, not the usual portfolio. That’s because a) I’m sitting in a mud shack in Taos, New Mexico without a studio and haven’t done this stuff in years, b) what you’ll see is not for sale and may no longer even [...]

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Leading the Quiet Life

February 20, 2012 Change
Tucson cacti

The other day I drove my ’87 Ford truck to the recycling center to unload glass and paper—talk about a useless exercise, two tons of rusty steel all the way there and back—which had to be the first time in a month it’s left the driveway. The tires, you see. They’ve got these cracks. About [...]

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February Love Song

February 15, 2012 Best o' the Blog
a totem animal

The whole thing was her idea. Since our favorite restaurant was featuring music of a certain kind with dinner on Valentine’s Day, my wife suggested taking me there the night before, which worked out splendidly. The place was relatively quiet, uncrowded, and the food was wonderful—it always is. Meanwhlle, the lady was flying high. She’s [...]

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“She is gon and left us…” [sic]

February 10, 2012 Personal
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My 90-year-old mother sits in a wheelchair in a nursing home and stares into space, a terror no more. How utterly and completely strange. I go through her papers and few possessions while we wait for the end, though who knows when that will be. I learned that she had an agreement with a Tucson [...]

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Treasure and Scorpions

February 9, 2012 Art
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All I can do is root around and hope. I’ll either get bitten, or I won’t. What happened today is that I braved the depths of the storage unit, previously referred to on these pages as the “Time Capsule from Hell,” and retrieved three boxes of slides and photographs I hadn’t laid eyes on since [...]

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