He bought me fifteen Rum and Cokes And then he went too far -- The Jazz Butcher, "The Devil is My Friend" Broadly speaking, a Devil is a bodily representation of various cultural and temporal expressions of evil, and thus has varied forms and names. The ancient Egyptian religion has Apep...
Most farmers I spoke to told me that when their cows reached the end of their production cycle that they were either taken to a cattle fair where they were sold to a middleman (with the unspoken understanding that the middleman then sold them to the butcher) or they ‘gave’ or sold the...
It takes place June 10th – June 13th. John Silveira will be joining me for cowboy poetry around the campfire on Thursday, June 11th at the Cedar Point Ranch, located at 5888 Chowchilla Mt. Road (about a mile up from the end of the pavement). The Wagon Train is also sponsoring a y...
I remember this drink very well. I grew up in North Bergen, NJ. I remember it well but in 1965 it did not have a pull tab to open it. I remember my mom would take me along to the butcher shop. Yeah, this was before supermarkets were popular and to keep me busy at 6 years old...
But even with that all being true, to me and others here, Glencoe is the best place to live in these mountains. As for politics, Glencoe is no different than most all of Calaveras Country. We are so Conservative, it's said "Even our trees lean to the right" in Calaveras County. Tha...
In sooth the building was no place where one could wish to stay, We did our duties promptly, there one purpose swayed the mind; We tarried not, nor lingered long on what we left behind. The torture of that icy seat would make a Spartan sob, ...
Kemp drifted into New Mexico, opened a butcher shop in Eddy which is present day Carlsbad, acquired an interest in a gambling casino in nearby Phoenix, and believe it or not actually became sheriff when Eddy County was organized in 1889. He conducted his office in the interests of his gambl...
specifically the number of objects in a scene. If you leave the optimization until too late, then you are either going to have a scene that runs too slow (and may require some last minute butchering), or a scene that is much lower in complexity than the engine can support, and which ...
Perren calculates that in the late Victorian period every animal landing at Deptford, London, brought between £5 to £6 to the local economy through its 'slaughter, butchering, sale, and processing of byproducts' (Perren 2008, p. 145). Bloom's inner lament that live export means 'the...
But stories often play with the idea that a severe injury to a lycanthrope in beast form might be retained in their humanoid form—so the butcher suddenly has a limp after the battlemaster tripped up the wolf that eventually got away. An Unexpected Challenge. One of the things that’s ...