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In 1985, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Monkey Wrench Gang , Dream Garden Press founder, Ken Sanders (who we interviewed on CS a few years back ), suggested that R. Crumb illustrate a special edition of the Edward Abbey classic. You can only buy the Crumb version here (along with t-shirts), so if you don't have a copy, get up on it. **Keep your eyes peeled for the Abbey/Crumb calendar [...]
Cold Splinters is heading to the southwest section of these United of States for Christmas, so there might be some crickets around these parts for the next week or so. Have a wonderful holiday and we'll see you in 2013. It's gonna be a real good one. I'll meet you in the Organ Pipes All alone on a winter's night You'll say, "Come Home." I'll stay. You won't. MP3: Steve Earle - Goodbye's All We've Got Left
One of my favorite and most unnecessary purchases in the history of having a CS eBay account. Though I suppose you can never have too many copies, right? MP3: Bombino - Tenere (The Desert, My Home)
A few weeks back, I was held up in southwest Texas - Big Bend National Park, to be exact - with Mikael Kennedy , writing a story for the wonderful Garden and Gun . (It'll be out later this summer, so stay tuned.) With work and travel and bla bla bla, this last Thursday was the first time that Mikael and I were able to get together since our little adventure. A winning combination of Guinness and Ful Medames . We both had [...]
If you're in the area, head on over to Alpine, Texas this Friday and Saturday for the 26th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Festival . Hells bells, there's even a tribute to Marty Robbins on Friday morning! ( Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was a major part of the soundtrack for Cold Splinters' Texas adventure. They even sold the album at the Panther Junction Visitor Center in BBNP.) Ima miss you Deep West Texas. MP3: Marty [...]
I imagine that many of you are getting away for the holidays: Whether that means going home to see ma and pa, going on a road trip to some far away place filled with cactus and cholla, or, hopefully, a combination of the two. Cold Splinters is off to the California desert for a couple days (Palm Springs + Joshua Tree National Park ) then to to the foothills of Colorado (Boulder + Nederland), and in preparation fore the trip - at least the desert portion - we've been blasting Bombino's [...]
I've posted this before , but I spent the better portion of yesterday listening to Freedom and Wilderness from Moab's Back of Beyond Books. It's just so so good. Enjoy it. We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout troop deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. Even the maddest murderer of the sweetest wife should get a chance for a [...]
While I was in Boulder over Thanksgiving weekend, I happened upon the new Matter Journal while roaming down Pearl Street. Matter is a semi-annual literary journal published by Wolverine Publications in Fort Collins, CO, and their newest issue, Numero 13, is dedicated to the life and times of Cactus Ed. Wolverine was nice enough to send Cold Splinters a copy, and, trust us, it's a humdinger. It's huge, full of great stories, pictures and all that good stuff that, if you're here and reading this, you'll enjoy. [...]
If you frequent this rag, you'll know that there are two things that I post about rather often: Edward Abbey and the Grateful Dead. So when I found out that Edward Abbey's 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible is being auctioned off on eBay and then saw that there was a Grateful Dead sticker on the back of the car, I was rather excited. It seems as though the car has seen a few owners (one of them being foolish enough to think that the license plate should read E ABBEY) and a few face lifts [...]
A good man named Eric Temple has a couple of great Edward Abbey videos that he's uploaded on Vimeo for our viewing pleasure. You can enjoy those right here . Included in the set is this one from an old NBC show called Almanac, which if I had to choose, I'd watch first.
The Chihuahuan Desert straddles the U.S.-Mexico border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra Madre Oriental . On the U.S. side it occupies the valleys and basins of central and southern New Mexico, Texas west of the Pecos River and southeastern Arizona. The Chihuahuan has an area of 139,769 sq miles, making it the third largest desert in the Western Hemisphere [...]
Victoria McCabe 19 May 1973 Dear Victoria, Herewith my bit for your cookbook. This recipe is not original but a variation on an old (perhaps ancient) Southwestern dish. It has also been a favorite of mine and was for many years the staple, the sole staple, of my personal nutritional program. (I am six feet three and weigh 190 pounds, sober.) I call it Hardcase Survival Pinto Bean Sludge. 1. Take one fifty-pound sack Colorado pinto beans. Remove stones, cockleburs, horseshit, ants, lizards, etc. Wash in clear cold crick water. Soak for [...]
I suppose doing a post about Edward Abbey is becoming a weekly thing now, but this one is the toppermost of the poppermost. Moab, Utah's Back of Beyond Books sells a 4 CD collection of Abbey reading his own work that you can (and should) buy here . Each disc contains around 45 minutes of talking, which usually amounts to a chapter or two from one of his books. If you're an Abbey fan, which it seems as though some of you are, you need this. Immediately. And if you're not, listen below to an [...]
Over the last thirty or so years, Burt Britton has worked at The Village Vanguard, The Strand, and The Sheridan Square Book Store. He was then a co-owner of the Upper East Side's Books and Company, which closed in the early 90s. While he worked, he would ask people to draw self-portraits , including Miles Davis, a teenage Kareem Abdul Jabar, Tennesse Williams, and of course, Edward Abbey, whose self-portrait is above. Over 200 were selected for auction this past September, and Abbey's, in the company of people like Normal Mailer, Frank Gherry and Saul [...]
A few weeks ago, The FADER asked if I would write up a blog for them, doing the things I do here, but with more of an emphasis on fashion. To be perfectly honest, I don't know much of anything about fashion and/or style, but, as I mentioned at The FADER earlier today, I'll damn well do my best. You can read my first post here . Thanks again to everyone who reads this rag. I can't tell you how much it means when someone writes and [...]
CS IN THE SW
Dec 14, 2012, 9:53am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters is heading to the southwest section of these United of States for Christmas, so there might be some crickets around these parts for the next week or so. Have a wonderful holiday and we'll see you in 2013. It's gonna be a real good one. I'll meet you in the Organ Pipes All alone on a winter's night You'll say, "Come Home." I'll stay. You won't. MP3: Steve Earle - Goodbye's All We've Got Left
Artist: Steve Earle Title: Goodbye's All We've Got Left Link Text: MP3: Steve Earle - Goodbye’s All We’ve Got Left File Name: 02-Goodbyes-All-Weve-Got-Left. mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Genre: Country Year: 1986
WNPA
Dec 11, 2012, 7:46am Cold Splinters
Cold SplintersThe Western National Parks Association has published some pretty wonderful books since it was founded in 1938. (Back then they were called the Southwest Monuments Association.) They now operate bookstores at 66 NPS sites throughout the western United States with a flagship/headquarters in Tucson. I've found and bought a bunch of these while traveling these last few years - Flowers of the Southwest Mesas , Flowers of the Southwest Deserts , 70 Common Cacti , 100 Roadside Flowers - and they're pretty darn easy on the eyes. You can see [...]
DESERT SOLITAIRE LOT
Mar 28, 2012, 2:32pm Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
One of my favorite and most unnecessary purchases in the history of having a CS eBay account. Though I suppose you can never have too many copies, right? MP3: Bombino - Tenere (The Desert, My Home)
Artist: Bombino Title: Tenere (The Desert, My Home) Link Text: MP3: Bombino - Tenere (The Desert, My Home) File Name: 06-Tenere-The-Desert-My-Home.m p3 Genre: Niger Year: 2011
TWELVE LESSONS OF THE DESERT
Mar 19, 2012, 8:05am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
A few weeks back, I was held up in southwest Texas - Big Bend National Park, to be exact - with Mikael Kennedy , writing a story for the wonderful Garden and Gun . (It'll be out later this summer, so stay tuned.) With work and travel and bla bla bla, this last Thursday was the first time that Mikael and I were able to get together since our little adventure. A winning combination of Guinness and Ful Medames . We both had [...]
Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Feb 21, 2012, 2:03pm Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
If you're in the area, head on over to Alpine, Texas this Friday and Saturday for the 26th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Festival . Hells bells, there's even a tribute to Marty Robbins on Friday morning! ( Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was a major part of the soundtrack for Cold Splinters' Texas adventure. They even sold the album at the Panther Junction Visitor Center in BBNP.) Ima miss you Deep West Texas. MP3: Marty [...]
Artist: Marty Robbins Title: Running Gun Link Text: MP3: Marty Robbins - Running Gun File Name: Marty-Robbins-10-Running-Gun.m p3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Genre: Country Year: 1959
Artist: Marty Robbins Title: They're Hanging Me Tonight Link Text: MP3: Marty Robbins - They’re Hanging Me Tonight File Name: Marty-Robbins-05-Theyre-Hangin g-Me-Tonight.mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Genre: Country Year: 1959
Beer as Heritage in the Pacific Northwest
Jan 12, 2012, 3:22pm
T-Sides
T-SidesBy Vincent Rendoni I’m visiting my family in Washington. I’ve only been at my mother’s house for about four hours, but I’m already reaching for a couple of beers. I take them from the outside fridge, and speed past barking dogs and bickering relatives to my mother’s deck. I close the sliding glass door and suddenly it’s quiet. I light a citronella candle to fend off mosquitoes and crane flies, sit myself in a lounge chair out of sight from my family, and take in the sunset over Puget Sound. I have this one rule: I don’t drink alone. Except [...]
The Desert, My Home
Dec 13, 2011, 4:57pm Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
I imagine that many of you are getting away for the holidays: Whether that means going home to see ma and pa, going on a road trip to some far away place filled with cactus and cholla, or, hopefully, a combination of the two. Cold Splinters is off to the California desert for a couple days (Palm Springs + Joshua Tree National Park ) then to to the foothills of Colorado (Boulder + Nederland), and in preparation fore the trip - at least the desert portion - we've been blasting Bombino's [...]
Artist: Bombino Title: Iyat Idounia Ayasahen (Another Life) Link Text: MP3: Bombino - Iyat Idounia Ayasahen (Another Life) File Name: 07-Iyat-Idounia-Ayasahen-Anoth er-Life-1.mp3 Genre: Niger Year: 2011
Artist: Bombino Title: Tenere (The Desert, My Home) Link Text: MP3: Bombino - Tenere (The Desert, My Home) File Name: 06-Tenere-The-Desert-My-Home-1 .mp3 Genre: Niger Year: 2011
Deserts To Finally Die In When The Heart Fails
May 18, 2011, 9:56am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
I've posted this before , but I spent the better portion of yesterday listening to Freedom and Wilderness from Moab's Back of Beyond Books. It's just so so good. Enjoy it. We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout troop deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. Even the maddest murderer of the sweetest wife should get a chance for a [...]
Matter Journal 13
Dec 20, 2010, 3:48pm Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
While I was in Boulder over Thanksgiving weekend, I happened upon the new Matter Journal while roaming down Pearl Street. Matter is a semi-annual literary journal published by Wolverine Publications in Fort Collins, CO, and their newest issue, Numero 13, is dedicated to the life and times of Cactus Ed. Wolverine was nice enough to send Cold Splinters a copy, and, trust us, it's a humdinger. It's huge, full of great stories, pictures and all that good stuff that, if you're here and reading this, you'll enjoy. [...]
Edward Abbey’s Car For Sale On Ebay
Nov 19, 2010, 8:43am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
If you frequent this rag, you'll know that there are two things that I post about rather often: Edward Abbey and the Grateful Dead. So when I found out that Edward Abbey's 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible is being auctioned off on eBay and then saw that there was a Grateful Dead sticker on the back of the car, I was rather excited. It seems as though the car has seen a few owners (one of them being foolish enough to think that the license plate should read E ABBEY) and a few face lifts [...]
Link Text: MP3: Ed Abbey – Excerpt from “Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom” File Name: Freedom-and-Wilderness.mp3
Edward Abbey Continued..
Sep 21, 2010, 7:44am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
A good man named Eric Temple has a couple of great Edward Abbey videos that he's uploaded on Vimeo for our viewing pleasure. You can enjoy those right here . Included in the set is this one from an old NBC show called Almanac, which if I had to choose, I'd watch first.
BIG BEND REGION COLORING BOOK
Jul 19, 2010, 10:30am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
The Chihuahuan Desert straddles the U.S.-Mexico border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra Madre Oriental . On the U.S. side it occupies the valleys and basins of central and southern New Mexico, Texas west of the Pecos River and southeastern Arizona. The Chihuahuan has an area of 139,769 sq miles, making it the third largest desert in the Western Hemisphere [...]
Slumgullion Stew
Jun 24, 2010, 2:50pm Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
Victoria McCabe 19 May 1973 Dear Victoria, Herewith my bit for your cookbook. This recipe is not original but a variation on an old (perhaps ancient) Southwestern dish. It has also been a favorite of mine and was for many years the staple, the sole staple, of my personal nutritional program. (I am six feet three and weigh 190 pounds, sober.) I call it Hardcase Survival Pinto Bean Sludge. 1. Take one fifty-pound sack Colorado pinto beans. Remove stones, cockleburs, horseshit, ants, lizards, etc. Wash in clear cold crick water. Soak for [...]
Freedom and Wilderness
Mar 23, 2010, 9:27am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
I suppose doing a post about Edward Abbey is becoming a weekly thing now, but this one is the toppermost of the poppermost. Moab, Utah's Back of Beyond Books sells a 4 CD collection of Abbey reading his own work that you can (and should) buy here . Each disc contains around 45 minutes of talking, which usually amounts to a chapter or two from one of his books. If you're an Abbey fan, which it seems as though some of you are, you need this. Immediately. And if you're not, listen below to an [...]
Title: Freedom and Wilderness Link Text: MP3: Ed Abbey - Excerpt from Freedom and Wilderness, Wilderness and Freedom File Name: Freedom-and-Wilderness.mp3 Bitrate: 160 kbps
Edward Abbey Self Portrait
Mar 1, 2010, 10:44am Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
Over the last thirty or so years, Burt Britton has worked at The Village Vanguard, The Strand, and The Sheridan Square Book Store. He was then a co-owner of the Upper East Side's Books and Company, which closed in the early 90s. While he worked, he would ask people to draw self-portraits , including Miles Davis, a teenage Kareem Abdul Jabar, Tennesse Williams, and of course, Edward Abbey, whose self-portrait is above. Over 200 were selected for auction this past September, and Abbey's, in the company of people like Normal Mailer, Frank Gherry and Saul [...]
Artist: Kate & Anna McGarrigle Title: Swimming Song (Loudon Wainwright III cover) Link Text: MP3: Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Swimming Song File Name: swsong.mp3 Bitrate: 242 kbps Year: 1975
Cold Splinters + The FADER
Feb 17, 2010, 3:02pm Cold Splinters
Cold Splinters
A few weeks ago, The FADER asked if I would write up a blog for them, doing the things I do here, but with more of an emphasis on fashion. To be perfectly honest, I don't know much of anything about fashion and/or style, but, as I mentioned at The FADER earlier today, I'll damn well do my best. You can read my first post here . Thanks again to everyone who reads this rag. I can't tell you how much it means when someone writes and [...]
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