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— If after ten years of selective breeding you have finally achieved the tallest yearling bulls in the show ring, this will be the year the trend starts the other way

Andy and I went down to Williston, Florida to visit a couple of characters. This is horse country and these boys were hock deep in horse training. They were sure hospitable as indicated in the letter they sent after we left.

Nathan Payne, Spells and Curses, Vanderlyle, Hopper Race, Ekurtis – The Map Room at The Bowery Electric December 17, 2017 – New York

“Well,” she said, “One of Fred’s friends (Fred was her dad) suggested tyin’ a chain to the ring in his nose. So Dad did, a ten-foot log chain. Didn’t faze him! That bull could stand flat-footed and jump a five-wire fence!

Is America becoming more civilized? Certainly, according to the definition, there has been a mass exodus from the country to the city. The percentage of people who make a living off the land continues to decline. And the stigma of being less civilized still applies to farmers, lumberjacks, fishermen, hunters, miners, ranchers and cowboys. Those whose jobs require exposure to the elements, manual labor and physical risk. This stigma is a benign prejudice that allows opportunists to manipulate urban opinion to our disadvantage. “Stop the mining, curtail the drilling, up their grazing fee, steal their water, condemn their land, cripple their dirty little towns. After all, they’re only peasants. Not really civilized, you know.”

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The Mike Stern Band Featuring Randy Brecker, Tom Kennedy and Dennis Chambers – Iridium Through December 23, 2017 – New York

“Say no more,” I thought. Riding a strange horse furnished by the stock contractor into the center of the arena surrounded by thousands of foot stompin’, whistlin’, avid rodeo fans, reins in one hand, microphone in the other, with flags flyin’, banners flappin’ and music blarrin’…the outcome is almost predictable.

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They saw beauty in the disarray of clothing left behind by 450 refugees and migrants, rescued from a boat off the Libyan coast; in the clouds of smoke from a California wildfire, captured from aloft; in the toil of a Mexican farmworker, surrounded by a carpet of cabbage.

In semi-retirement he won the 1985 and ‘86 Billabong Pros in Hawaii, the latter when giant 10-metre waves smashed Waimea Bay and some surfers refused to even paddle out, and in 2001 he returned to claim victory in the World Masters Championships over-40 division in Ireland. 

— If a feller doesn’t trim his own horse’s feet, he’s got too many horses or not enough time.