Hi Angie, do you still live in Prescott? I love it up there, and Sedona, and The White Mountains, and Flagstaff - I just plain love Arizona.

Believe it or not, I just found out about Lucinda Williams. I'm a big Imus fan, and he's been playing "Are you all right" and "I put a lock on my front door" pretty much nonstop.

Went to the Rialto once for a Little Feat concert. Great venue. I hope, though, when Little Feat comes back they'll go to the Fox Theater.

Really good to have you for my new friend!

Jake

Hi Jake & welcome! Nice to see another Arizonan on crimespace...there's a few running around here. If I could handle the heat and had any desire to live in a big city again, Tucson would be a great place to live - just was down there a few weeks ago to see Lucinda Williams at the Rialto & had a blast.

Utah is beautiful. We spent one New Year's Eve week on a houseboat on Lake Powell. Gorgeous country, and we had the Rainbow Bridge all to ourselves. I've also been up through Provo, Salt Lake City and Ogden when I was a kid on camping trips with my parents. And Zion, more recently. What a beautiful place that is!

BTW - there's a fantastic mystery by Betty Webb called DESERT WIVES, about the polygamists in Colorado City.

Hi Jake,

Actually my dad's ranch was in Southern Utah, similar to Arizona in a lot of ways, with many red bluffs and dry canyons, but a world apart culturally. The adventure only lasted three years before my father moved back to L. A. and resumed his business career. But in those short years I'd experienced so much, taking care of my pony, branding calves in the spring, and what real food tasted like. The memories have stayed with me 50 years now, and will be with me forever.

Thanks for asking.

Jeff - where exactly did you live? I grew unp riding my horse all over town. At least I think I grew up!

Hey, Jake, I love Tucson, Arizona. I also lived on a ranch as a kid, but I moved back to L.A. when I was in grade school. You web site brought back memories. Thanks for being my friend.

Here's a good name for a bronc: Lucinda Williams. That would make 'em sit up and take notice.

"I changed the lock on my front door, so you can't see me any more" I love that gravelly voice!

"Jake Black...you are a friend of mine, I like to drink with in crimespace cybertime..." Ah. Who doesn't love Shelly West?

Ooh. Nice name for a bronc.

Got nothing else but edits, darlin'........

Remind me never to get drunk with you when you shoot out the lights, Lori! I always liked the bucking horse Five Minutes to Midnight. Is there a bull called Last Call?

Just keep clicking the damn thing until something takes :)

That's how I shoot, by the way, too.

Not Bodacious...let me think which bull fits my personality. My first inclination would be Big Bucks - but as I'm with a small publisher that'd be false advertising :)

I got it! Werewolf Snuff! He's a toughie~

Karen, I'd like to go to Thrillerfest, but it's not to be, this year!

Re. the saguaro, I always wanted to be tall and slender. And this way I always have something to lean on.

Hi, Jake - thanks for the add! Looking forward to getting to know you beyond the image I have of you at the moment as a talking cactus. :) Will you be at ThrillerFest again this summer?

Anabrazil (Ana?) you can call me Jake.

I love you avatar!

about that editing thing...after a couple of posts on other pages, I just realized that we chatter at the bottom but it posts at the top. Which means my topsy-turvy world is now rooty-tooty.
thanks for inviting me into the club! Which do you prefer... J. Carson or Carson?

Hi Brian! Talk about a writer - Springsteen is the master of slice of life. I'll have to read MY WICKED WICKED WAYS. I do remember that Errol Flynn and David Niven shared a bungalow on the beach called "Cirrhosis by the Sea".

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN. Anyone who references a Springsteen song title in the title of one of their books is A-OK with me. Oh, and if you think Flynn was cute, you owe it to yourself to read MY WICKED, WICKED WAYS, his autobiography. Thanks for adding me as a friend!

I don't know how to edit this thing, so I just want to say about the previous post that the woman was in her eighties (not eights) and that places like Telestar (are) a dumping ground for Sylvania and Panasonic (not is, as in, "Is our children learning?"). Since I'm supposed to be a writer, I figured I should set the record straight. Jake.

Happiness is an extra fridge and indentured servants.

The microwave is under warranty, but we have to take it to this little hole-in-the-wall here in town called Telestar. The receptionist has to be in her eights. The front room is a squalid liittle alcove that could be Phil Marlowe's office. Last time they had our Sylvania TV set for close to two months, we had it a week and it went out again--so they had it another three weeks. So when we called the woman said that the repairman was going to be gone for two weeks, so we should call back later. Places like Telestar is a just a dumping ground for appliances from Sylvania and Panasonic to run out the clock on their one-year warrantys. Hate to be so cynical but these are the mean streets of Tucson, and it don't get seedier than that.

Your microwave...my fridge...again. I keep unplugging it, then it works for a couple of weeks. I'm too damn cheap to buy a new one until we get our taxes back. That's why I had 3 kids, so THEY can run up and down the stairs hauling stuff to and from the extra fridge :)