Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
El Greco wait staff
They are always the best. These three waiters claim three different indigenous ancestries. The man on the left is Mayan.
Gate at Amerind
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Blue Yodel #9
Photo by Leo"Standing on the corner I didn’t mean no harm
When a big policeman grabbed me by the arm.
Now, it was down in Memphis
On the corner of Beale and Main
He said now, hey big boy
I’m gonna have to know your name.
Now, you can find my name
On the tail of my shirt
I’m a Tennessee hustler
And I don't have to work."
-Jimmy Rodgers, Sept. 11, 1931
Monday, March 27, 2006
My Son Ben
My Girls
Queen Mine Tour
Took my first Queen Mine Tour today. Excellent! My kids were with me.
Veteran Bisbee miner Roger McGinnis (left) does the best mine tour I could imagine. His colloquialisms are fantastic. His wit is dry. His knowledge is very extensive and authoritative. He even shows you precisely how dynamite charges are set.
Mule Deer
Photo by LeoYikes. I almost took these guys out with my van yesterday. By the time I got the camera out, they were pretty settled. There were more, but they scattered from the rest of the herd.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Hands of the Artists
Photo by LeoWhen there's nothing to say, 'tis best to say nothing.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Return of the HooDoo Men
Photo by LeoIt's been too long since Lar and Len were in Nogales. After giving the town a respite of several months, the notorious HooDoo men returned to a favorite-son welcome. Brenda, the Tohono O’odham shop mistress at San Xavier mission called ahead to warn the Yaqui bretheren of their imminent return. "I don't know where they were made," Brenda wept. "One of them is Potowatomie, I think, and the other is Ojibwa."
No, ma'am. They're Mojo.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Because Privvy Tipper's in town ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
My Dream Home
Monday, March 20, 2006
The House I Almost Bought
Friday, March 17, 2006
Cuba Libre
Foto de LeoLorenzo es tan divertido cuando él intenta ser resistente porque todos sabemos que él es un gato del gatito y que toda la materia resistente del individuo apenas está significada para despertar intereses purient en ciertas mujeres que encuentren el atractivo resistente y desagradable.
Uno Mas Posta
Foto de LeoHay muchas drogas que se tendrán aquí. Cialis y Viagra son pero dos de pedido más drogas por la gente en América. Conjeturo que los individuos se preocupan de perder su duro-en más que se preocupan de perder su mente o del tener ataques del corazón. Nos matará en el extremo y haremos un género extinto y las mujeres tendrán que hacerlo todo en sus el propios porque no sabemos relajar y tener diversión con el sexo y porque nos preocupamos más de la ejecución que sobre satisfacer a la mujer amamos.
Bendecido sea muerte en nosotros toda.
Foto de LeoÉl parece los pozos de Orson Wells para asumir el control un sistema casi vacante de la película. El genio enojado toma el control de la escena y produce "el Maginficent Ambersons" fuera del escombro del tercer mundo. El dios lo dejó hacerlo y, alas, debemos aguantar a su genious y a su ego en el mismo tiempo. Bendecido sea muerte en nosotros toda.
Cinco días hasta Lar consiguen aquí.
Foto de LeoSí Compinche. Algún craziness serio será tenido. Las calles hacen señas y las señoritas jóvenes están esperando. Imágenes que se harán y pipa que se pondrá.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
7 more days til Big Lar gits here.
Ever been to Vegas? I seen Elvis there. Seen Sinatra before he retired the first time. Been on the Strip and played baccarat with Buddy Hackett. You been to the Frontier? Yup, me too. El Cortez is downtown. See, I been here before. Sunday, March 12, 2006
10 more days
Photo by Samuel SadorfJust a scant 10 days and Larree can see this sweet mug for real. Can you imagine waking up next to this face? I sure can't.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Buddy Guy at the Potawatomie Casino. What a show. He's singing "Damn Right I've Got the Blues."
Photo by Chester Arthur Burnett
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Worthy of an Oscar
"I Want to Live" (1958) features an extremely powerful and complex performance by Susan Hayward. You cannot help but weep at her desperate situation. She deserved that Oscar.
Robert Wise directed this amazing film, which has a very cool jazz layer beneath an otherwise nail-biting surface of increasing tension.
Susan plays Barbara Graham, a petty criminal who runs with the wrong crowd and gets framed in a murder, and she is sent to the gas chamber at San Quentin. That sequence alone is wrought with extremes of emotion and clinical coldness.
It's a true story that received sensational coverage in its day by the media. One of those reporters was newspaperman Ed Montgomery of the San Francisco Examiner. Simon Oakland plays Montgomery, who over time became convinced of Barbara's innocence and vainly crusaded for a sentence commutation.
The film even has good performances by actors such as Raymond Bailey (banker Milburn Drysdale from "The Beverly Hillbillies").
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Whatever Happened to 'Mike' ?
Leo, I think he was an invention of yours. Heh-heh! Either that, or he is on one long fishing trip.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Indoor Fireworks
Photos by Leo
My son Nathan, working on a science fair project. Lucky we put the gas can outside.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Sonoita Mercantile
When a person takes the scenic route from Tucson to SE Arizona, one MUST stop at the Sonoita Mercantile. The store has a little bit of everything in there: wine, snacks, candy, cute women, bikers, etc. The bathroom is real clean. The help is friendly. The wine is from local vineyards.
And there's a real nice steakhouse next door. It's got swingin' saloon doors and lots of Western decor.
Just a Couple More Weeks...
Foto by LeopoldJust a couple more weeks and... Can't you taste the enchiladas and the Cigarillos de Cubano? Dancing at La Salon De Estrella and a massage down at La Roca?
