I’m pretty sure old Burrhus would have been fascinated by winter steelheaders.
It’s the Hideous Jabbering Head of Izaak Walton’s Olde Timey Holidaye Songe Revue! He’s just like Bing Crosby only twice as drunk and mean!
Oh the gallant Fishers life,
It is the best of any,
’Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And ’tis belov’d of many:
Other joyes
are but toyes,
and I hope I get the one with Kunge Fu Grippe!
Something from Brother Glista’s holiday fly candy stash:
Here’s one we like to enjoy at the same time every year, just like Rudolph.
Booker T. & The MGs. That’s analog, kiddies. Still the best medium for the Sex Pistols, but it lends a nice traditional warmth here I think.
Ze Great Wakkorotti:
Now go make merrye!
Stumbled into a pretty cool little photo joint called the William Joseph Gallery yesterday and among the billion sweet historical shots of the American West, including work by the legendary Ray Atkeson (Warren Miller’s contemporary, considered by many the Ansel Adams of the Northwest), Larry Olson and the badass Umpqua photog Dan Callaghan, i found this shot from Allen deLay. Always suspected Wreck Rapid was named such because of an um, wreck or something, but it’s pretty bomber to actually see.
Description reads: Maupin train wreck. a head-on collision between northbound steam engine 3128 and southbound diesel engine 440 occurred 57.6 miles up the Deschutes River on the west bank rail tracks. The location is 3.8 miles up the river from Sherars Bridge, which is near Maupin, Oregon. Since then, this site has been called Wreck Rapids. Three men running the trains died. Train 440 was carrying a load of horses and only one survived in good condition.
Anyway, anyone in PDX oughta stop in there sometime and chat up the guy behind the counter. Fella knows a ton of cool stuff about the history behind a ton of killer old river shots.
You’ve seen the trailer. May be you want to see the whole video. May be you have seen the whole video. May be you should go here to see a little bit of what you might or might not have seen already. Some of it for the sure the latter.
Props to the soul rollin’ bastige Kevin Price for perverting Xtranormal into a flyfishing advertisment i actually don’t feel stupider for seeing.
Click on the area below to play…
Got some sorta Xtranormal Kung-Fu that you think’s piss-your-pants funny? We’ll be the judge of that, buddy.Send it to bacon@busterwantstofish.com and we’ll plaster it up at our little lame-ass site here.
45 minutes of on-stage Fugazi banter…
All i’m sayin is it’s about damn time JayJ started writing again.
Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti typer is going up for auction, so sayeth the NYTimes. They’re expecting to fetch 20K for the thing, which means we’d only have to sell 150,000 stickers… or something. Anyway, here’s the supa sweet money quote:
Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer who is handling the auction for Mr. McCarthy, said: “When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was composed on such a simple, functional, frail-looking machine, it conferred a sort of talismanic quality to Cormac’s typewriter. It’s as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife.”