by Dean | Jan 12, 2011 | General
Like to read Westerns? Elmer Kelton’s The Way of the Coyote (2000) is a dandy one.
A post-Civil War chronicle with former Unionists and Confederates, it also eminently concerns white youngsters kidnapped and raised by Comanche Indians. This is what happened to Andy, no longer a youngster, who is rescued by Rusty Shannon after the former kills a vicious Comanche with an animus toward him. Later in the book, Andy goes off to retrieve another lad whom the Comanches have kidnapped. Meanwhile, good Rusty has problems with the scurvy Oldham brothers, who steal his farm. Enemies come from all sides in Coyote.
Kelton’s novel is flawed in that, like numerous other Westerns, it has too many two-dimensional characters and in that Andy should be a little more callow and naive than he is after living so long with the Indians. The plot, however, is expert, and the novel never gets boring. The Comanches are not sanitized and carpetbaggers are unsympathetic. What’s more, the author accords great respect to a Christian minister–Preacher Webb. The Way of the Coyote is a fun, wholesome read.
by DaveStuff | Dec 26, 2010 | General
Dave
Back in the day a musician friend of mine coined a new band name…”The Daves” He was really proud of this idea and would talk about it often.. All the members of the group would be named….. Well, you get the idea:
THE DAVES
Hey that looks pretty cool huh?
I had forgotten all about it till yesterday for some reason. Suddenly it just popped back into my head. Kinda weird.. You dig? Magickal memories.
I have teamed up with my old homey from 9th grade…We have been doing music together off and on since 1982…. His name is…. Uh…. Dave (more…)
by DaveStuff | Dec 20, 2010 | General
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Hello hipsters…
I know, it’s been awhile.. I feel compelled to apoligize for not posting.. I’ll try to do better. But many of the blogs about blogging posts out there tell you to never do this…. Apologize.
I suppose I wouldn’t need to would I since I am the owner of this blog and have left it unattended for months before… So, what’s new about that.. I can be kinda flaky with my online activities… (more…)
by DaveStuff | Nov 22, 2010 | General
So how did you find this post? Let me guess. You have an Emerson TV that you bought at Wal Mart When you got it home and hooked up your cable box you can’t get the cable remote to work with the TV.
Did I get it right?
Emerson LCD Model LC320Em82 S
That’s right folks… If you have that TV your just going to have to use 2 remotes for the rest of that TV’s career.
See here’s the solution:
- Use the TV remote for the TV
- Use the Cable remote to change channels. (haha I know)
You just have to keep up with 2 remotes…That’s all. Double fisted clicking. (more…)
by Dean | Nov 6, 2010 | General
The Tracey Fragments is a movie reviewed for ya by my bro Dean D. Check it out and see if you agree. I plan on it. Especially since I never even heard of it.
Ellen Page stars as Tracey Berkowitz, an anguished, bullied, self-hating Canadian teenager in a film improbable and extravagant. Page’s acting is incisive, but her character is burdened with parents who are arrant fools, both of them, and she herself goes off to search for her much younger brother, Sonny, who has been missing for two days. It must be said it seems a hopeless quest: how does she know he wasn’t abducted? And get this: he disappeared after Tracey hypnotized the boy into thinking he was a dog! Tracey is mercilessly bullied by girls and boys alike. What, really, is behind this? Even her temporary boyfriend ends up being mean to her. Maureen Medved’s screenplay leaves the impression that no one likes the fact that Tracey has no breasts.
The next subject is the work of director Bruce McDonald. His multi-frame procedure, with freeze frames, distortions, repeated snatches of speech, etc. hauled in, is actually multi-frame artiness. Rarely was I pleased with it.
by Dean | Oct 30, 2010 | General
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Caleb is a firefighter, and town hero, who finds it impossible to save his dying marriage to Katherine, a public relations officer at a Georgia hospital. The forty-day marital counseling project Caleb takes on doesn’t work, but it becomes a kind of tool the Almighty uses to bring renewal to the damaged couple. Long before the marriage is mended, Caleb gives himself to Christ. It makes a difference.
The comic moments in Alex and Stephen Kendrick‘s film are lame and so is much, though not all, of the acting (Kirk Cameron is solid as Caleb, Erin Bethea respectable as Katherine) . (more…)
