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God bless America! Well, god bless Ken Pagano for trying to spark debate about that ever sensitive issue of gun control now Obama’s in the White House.
He certainly seems to have made global news headlines for holding an ‘open carry’ church event. Beats those fund raising bake offs for generating publicity.
Here’s another recent online auction find - a pin-up style cowgirl strutting through the cactusland in some fancy cowboy boots. Not sure about the accuracy of the lasso thrower off to the right of the picture.
The playing card is signed but my eyesight means I can’t make out the name. It’s in the general pinup style of the 1940/50s era and another good add to my cowgirl art collection.
Browsing eBay I also spotted this lovely calendar sample print of 1951 vintage titled “The Round-Up” by Art Frahm.
Grapefruit Moon Gallery, which specialises in vintage pulp and pin-up themed collectables, is selling a batch and I’m tempted to bid for this nostalgic artwork featuring two boys in costume rounding up the neighborhood policeman.
Two good wild west related stories on the Beeb site this week worth reporting. First off is the matter of the theft of Geronimo’s skull.
This is a case that at first glance would seem to be nothing more than a hoax but due to the involvement of a secret society, the story has grown wings over the last century.
There is some history of deception associated with the famed Indian chief, the most notable being the recovery by the FBI of the leader’s ceremonial headdress when the article decorated with eagle feathers was put up for sale.
The second story is concerned with the race to develop alternative fuels, in this case turning manure into ethanol.
“Over the last 20, 30 years, there’ve been lots of people with new ideas - pie in the sky ideas - about how we were going to use manure but, at the end of the day, the best thing we use it for is fertiliser.”
Let’s hope Hereford - ‘Beef Capital of the World’ - does one day get to be the renewable energy capital of Texas.
