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Buck (2011)

Viewed on Netflix Instant Que (1.16.2012)also on Show Time (until 1.17.2012)

Genre: Documentary

Age Group Best: Highschoolers hanging in the parking lot to Old Men Playing Checkers
Length: 1:28:48

Short Summary-No Spoiler

Buck Branaman is a great horseman, who learned to harness his own pain from his abused youth, to train people how to treat their horses with love and respect.

"God had him in mind when he made a cowboy."

Atomic Ranchero Creed

  "What might be an atomic Ranchero?" 


Well I am glad you asked!"



Join the Atomic Ranchero movement, here is a top ten check list to see if you are an Atomic Ranchero:

1. An Atomic Ranchero owns a cowboy hat but not necessarily owns a horse.
   
2. Loves classic trucks, but does not believe in Car Washes. Dirt shows you have been somewhere.
   
3. Is a guy up for adventure especially if it is road-trips, anything to get out of this suburban nightmare.
   
4. Has lived in Colorado, Eastern Oregon, Eastern California, Eastern Washington, Eastern Utah, Southern Wyoming along I-80, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, parts of Hawaii, or Texas.  (Not sure of states: Utah, Idaho).
   
5. Tries not to give a shit. And pictures himself as Johnny Cash giving the middle finger.
   
6. Owns a Jackalope Head mounted on the wall.
   
7. Loves the Mythic Space of High lonesome Clouds
   
8. Thinks South Park is about his early years.
9. Loves the 1950's with a twist. Imagine the 50's only dirtier and more real.
10. Loves Fat Tire Beer because it washes away all the dusty trails explored during the back roads trips.

Cluck it Or Chuck It: Obstacles Welcome by Ralph de la Vega

Cuban Refugee to President & CEO of AT&T Mobility, what were the steps that got him there? How did a man who faced many obstacles not get mired down in the muck? How do you stop living your life trapped in a lazy chair jell cell; so that you can live a life you dreamed of?

This book will help those looking to improve their success journey in the following ways: (a) how to manage calculated risks (b) finding opportunities in your life being blended at high speed (c) and how to enable others to help you through effective communication.

De la Vega did not show how Christ empowered his success journey enough. He would have improved the book had he found scriptural truth to back up his opinions. The book tended to be very humanistic and treads on the mythic axiom, of lacing up your bootstraps and make it happen (very Horatio Alger of him). There was a lack of notes and research, or even works that had influenced De la Vega's point of view mentioned in the Appendix.

Summary: Not the book I was looking for and it took me a long time to finish it.

Counter view point: Embarking
Buy Obstacles Welcome at Powell's Books

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Yin and Yang Contemplate

Curmudgeon Bookstore Cedar Key Florida

It's 12:01 pm. It's a dreary day full of gray clouds and damp palms, a day to be reading a favorite book, a day that is not often felt around these parts.

Housed on the corner of Main Street in Cedar Key Florida, next to the pizza shop, and across from the Heron Fish-House, lies the Curmudgeon Bookstore. The owner, Dick Martens is a pure curmudgeon. A curmudgeon defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, is an ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.
Dick Martens is a conservative and has a point of view; loaded, and ready to be fired.
There will be pleasantries shared as long as you don't speak off the cuff and try to weasel in some liberal remarks. Then by duty called, he must debate with you, and you may leave offended. But don't get your feathers up, for he is well read, and even if you are liberally viewed, he will sharpen your wits. He loves sharing his favorite books with customers on little yellow sticky-notes. When Customers buy a book from Mr Martens, they know that the book is worth their time in reading.
Also check out his blog Curmudgeonalia.

Anonymous said...

I appreciate the positive commentary, but my preferred definition of a curmudgeon is that offered by Jon Winoker:
CURMUDGEON: (noun)
one who abhors disingenuity and hypocrisy, and has the temerity to say so, often recasting unpleasant facts in a droll manner.
Dick Martens
Curmudgeon in residence
Curmudgeonalia(book store,Cedar Key)

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Goin Deeper Wednesday

A worn out army will be like a car on blocks revving to go a 1,000 miles;
it wont get there no matter how many miles role by on the odometer.

Goin Deeper Wednesday

Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.


All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.- Manley Hopkins

Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory tells it like it is... an apology to the first BLACK PRESIDENT!

Let's Get 3-D Baby!

Who gave the idea of 3-D?
1840 England:
Sir Charles Wheatstone was a quite lad who invented 3-D pictures. His dad was a music teacher who taught all the kids of England to play "three blind mice". 3-D lead many Victorians to episodes of seasickness, after movies they held onto street lamps and "zig-zagged" home.

Yeah, I know this is a commercial but man, I like it!
Starbucks: Take Five

Hi Dad, I'm in Jail (of my own making)

Revelation 3:15-22

"The only way to wake up from complacency is a confrontation."

Pastor Tim Rice, Trinity Presbyterian

Captain American-Leisure sits in front of a computer.

Polycarp: "Hey Fred, why you sitting there? Punk!"

Fred: "I've been working! So, bugger off!"

Polycarp: True that, do what you want... But he's been missing you!

Fred: You mean my Abba, my LORD?

Polycarp: Yup.

1 comment when first posted:

Joseph Pulikotil said...on November 12, 2008:

Hi :)

Interesting post!

This reminds me of a real life story. A mother prepared a lavish lunch for her son's birthday, invited neighbours and was waiting for him to come and join them at 1'o clock. He did not turn up at the appointed time. All were very hungry and annoyed. He walked in at 4'oclock and announced that he was in the police lock up for an hour because he tried to illegally cut some trees to make place for his house construction. He was in the lock up till his friend came and bailed him out. The hungry neighbours were nauseated and appalled at his explanation for coming late for lunch and keep them waiting for so long.

Best wishes :)

Burning Firewithin Us!!!!!

A prayer for the new year:

An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and strongholds shall be plundered. Amos 3:11

I ask myself:
What barrier needs to be plow down in order to be part of instead of separated from?
Jesus Christ is a foundation more secure than any building, than any lifestyle, than any immediate feeling of pleasure. I ask that he continue to loosen the things that keep me from the One LOVE.

William Shakespeare Toast!!!

Happy New Year's Eve, lets raise our glasses of sparkling grape juice and cheer in 09....

Come thou monarch of the Vine
Plumpy Bucas with pink eyen!
In the vats our cares be drowned
with thy grapes our hairs be crowned!
Cup us till the world go round,
Cup us till the world go round!

Ten Commandments That Were LOST... under my bed...

I. Mondays are to be avoided.

II. Eat a Reuben on Rye when you are about to stress.

III. Do what you love the money will find you!

IV. Friends drink good coffee together.

V. Jumping on beds, with a fan over the bed, not such a good idea.

VI. Cats are evil.... they know when you are allergic to them.

VII. Friends root for Florida State not Florida, Friends root for Colorado not Nebraska.

VIII. Thou shall never leave the towel on the floor or on the bed... (My wife put me up to it!)

IX. Thou shall always finish one project before moving onto the next...

X. Thou shall be thankful to all... then life is a pleasing aroma!