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I'd like to see the herd you and Jake could gather.  Herd of whores, maybe.

you cheated!

Well, I won’t say I did and I won’t say I didn’t, but I will say that a man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.

“It’s free water, I hope you like it cold. We ain’t got time to warm it for you.”

“I like it wet.”

50 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.

My favorite scene 

6 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

What are you talkin' about? You don't even like money. You like money even less than you like fun, if that's possible.

I swear, Gus. You’d argue with a ‘possum. 

If you want any one thing too badly, it's likely to turn out to be a disappointment.

I’d like to see the herd you and Jake could gather.  Herd o’ whores maybe. 

You don’t mind doing a little well digging to pay for your breakfast, do you, Dish?  
 

( my oft quoted line when the young men show up at my deer camp trailer looking for something to eat after they stayed up too late the night before and there is work to be done)

7 hours ago, deadshank said:

You don’t mind doing a little well digging to pay for your breakfast, do you, Dish?  
 

( my oft quoted line when the young men show up at my deer camp trailer looking for something to eat after they stayed up too late the night before and there is work to be done)

I hope one of them says to the others “The only way to get better food around here is by shooting Deadshank.” 

20 hours ago, deadshank said:

I’d like to see the herd you and Jake could gather.  Herd o’ whores maybe. 

I don’t recall you being no lover of cows neither, Jake. Pretty whores and clean shirts were always more your style. 

I s'pose you been up all night readin' the Good Book.

I didn't read the book until well over a decade after I saw the movie, and it's easily in my list of Top 10 books of all time.  Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon are also very, very good.  Never got around to Streets of Laredo.

After the Black Vaquero resolution, I thought Comanche Moon was very average.  Couldn't agree more on Lonesome Dove though.

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.”

2 hours ago, Paco said:

I s'pose you been up all night readin' the Good Book.

“It’s hard to have fun in a place like this, but I do my best” is a regular phrase for me. As is “You tend your biscuits.”  

It’ll take a hacksaw to cut them eggs the way you’re frying them in coffee grounds, Bol. 
 

I don’t care. 

4 hours ago, South Austin said:

I didn't read the book until well over a decade after I saw the movie, and it's easily in my list of Top 10 books of all time.  Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon are also very, very good.  Never got around to Streets of Laredo.

Yep all three of those are very good. Fantastic story telling. 

2 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

Why don't you think that roof back up on that barn.

Is that a Woodrow line?  Because it’s damn near a Tommy Lee Jones line from The Fugitive too. 

8 hours ago, South Austin said:

I didn't read the book until well over a decade after I saw the movie, and it's easily in my list of Top 10 books of all time.  Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon are also very, very good.  Never got around to Streets of Laredo.

A favorite Gus line from the book that I'm not sure made the show was

"My main talents are talkin' and cookin' biscuits and gettin' drunk on the porch"

18 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I started the audiobook today. 35 hours. Yikes. 

Time well spent 

Hell yes, I'm ready Woodrow.  Don't I look ready?


“I think this is our man.”  
Also enjoyed Gus’ face when Po Campo is proposing someone riding Call. 

  • 2 months later...

RIP Blue Duck.  Forrest did an excellent job of portraying one of. the all-time great bad guys.

 

23 minutes ago, MalibuSheriff said:

RIP Blue Duck.  Forrest did an excellent job of portraying one of. the all-time great bad guys.

This bump hits close to home. I’m currently re-reading LD for probably the 4th time and am at the part where Gus is tracking Blue Duck and Lorena. 

On 4/10/2023 at 10:06 AM, South Austin said:

I didn't read the book until well over a decade after I saw the movie, and it's easily in my list of Top 10 books of all time.  Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon are also very, very good.  Never got around to Streets of Laredo.


Streets of Laredo is really good.  A solid cap to all of the character arcs.  Another reminder that Woodrow Call is the baddest mother fucker ever imagined.

1 hour ago, MalibuSheriff said:

RIP Blue Duck.  Forrest did an excellent job of portraying one of. the all-time great bad guys.

 

I think my favorite part of Comanche Moon is how it really establishes Blue Duck’s character 

I got a little treatment for women that try to run away.  I cut a hole in their stomachs and pull out a little gut and wrap it around a limb. Then I drag them 30 or 40 feet away and tie them down.  Then they can watch the coyotes come and eat their guts.   
 

gruesome. 

Go onto a McMurtry kick back in ‘21 after his passing. Lonesome Dove, last picture show, and leaving Cheyenne have always been some of my favorites. Rereading never gets old.

I was given a copy of - then stashed and forgot about - All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers.

What do you think if you’ve read it? Plan start it tomorrow to read over the next few days.

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