Comments on: Postcard Collection: Greetings From Arizona, Part One http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14908 Derrick Bostrom Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:05:26 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14908 Thanks for the kind remarks, FK; we aim to please! Sorry you got the shitty end of the stick in LA all those years ago. Here's a tip: few musicians enjoy hauling their own gear. Avoid them during this phase of the evening's festivities. Tell your buddy that if he can get the cub scout scans to me in a timely fashion, they would make an excellent Halloween post over on the Meat Puppets blog. I actually have Mr. Menehune's on the town album in my collection. If he happens to be playing during one of our scheduled Tucson excursions, a visit might be arranged. By the way, the mosaic work is very nice indeed! Thanks for the kind remarks, FK; we aim to please!

Sorry you got the shitty end of the stick in LA all those years ago. Here’s a tip: few musicians enjoy hauling their own gear. Avoid them during this phase of the evening’s festivities.

Tell your buddy that if he can get the cub scout scans to me in a timely fashion, they would make an excellent Halloween post over on the Meat Puppets blog.

I actually have Mr. Menehune’s on the town album in my collection. If he happens to be playing during one of our scheduled Tucson excursions, a visit might be arranged.

By the way, the mosaic work is very nice indeed!

]]> By: Fish Karma http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14903 Fish Karma Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:34:46 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14903 Hello, Derrick. Your site never ceases to amaze and impress. The recent postcard postings led me to your Flickr pages and the collection of ghost town photos, which in turn led me to unearth old photographs of me 'n' the gang visiting many of these same crumbling buildings back in the early 80's...one photo in particular showing me and a friend scampering atop a swaying wooden thingy outside a mine near (I think) Gleason, AZ, several hundred feet off the ground...these days, of course, I am hard-pressed to ascend past the fourth rung of a ladder without experiencing nausea and vertigo. Ah, those beer- and mushroom-fueled exhibitions of youth. May I also say that I am quite impressed by the literary quality of your entries? I say this only because I once fan-ishly accosted you and your bandmates outside a club in LA as you were loading in, and my earnest queries were greeted with an alarming barrage of incomprehensible, feral, vaguely threatening grunts from you, leading me to posit all sorts of theories about the cognitive damage you must have sustained growing up in the Valley. As the great comedian Joe E. Lewis was wont to say: it must have just been part of the act. Two more bits of business: my friend Andy, a cartoonist for the Tucson Weekly, has some charming photos of Cris Kirkwood as a young cub scout, which I think he would be happy to scan and submit to the MP website, if you are interested. Also, you simply must come down to Tucson in late October to see Ernie Menehune, "Hawaii's Suntanned Irishman," live at the Kon Tiki. This may be one of your last chances to witness the embodiment of old-school Vegas "culture." The particulars can be found at http://www.velvetglass.com/erniemenehune/kontikishow.html Hello, Derrick.
Your site never ceases to amaze and impress. The recent postcard postings led me to your Flickr pages and the collection of ghost town photos, which in turn led me to unearth old photographs of me ‘n’ the gang visiting many of these same crumbling buildings back in the early 80′s…one photo in particular showing me and a friend scampering atop a swaying wooden thingy outside a mine near (I think) Gleason, AZ, several hundred feet off the ground…these days, of course, I am hard-pressed to ascend past the fourth rung of a ladder without experiencing nausea and vertigo. Ah, those beer- and mushroom-fueled exhibitions of youth.
May I also say that I am quite impressed by the literary quality of your entries? I say this only because I once fan-ishly accosted you and your bandmates outside a club in LA as you were loading in, and my earnest queries were greeted with an alarming barrage of incomprehensible, feral, vaguely threatening grunts from you, leading me to posit all sorts of theories about the cognitive damage you must have sustained growing up in the Valley. As the great comedian Joe E. Lewis was wont to say: it must have just been part of the act.
Two more bits of business: my friend Andy, a cartoonist for the Tucson Weekly, has some charming photos of Cris Kirkwood as a young cub scout, which I think he would be happy to scan and submit to the MP website, if you are interested. Also, you simply must come down to Tucson in late October to see Ernie Menehune, “Hawaii’s Suntanned Irishman,” live at the Kon Tiki. This may be one of your last chances to witness the embodiment of old-school Vegas “culture.” The particulars can be found at http://www.velvetglass.com/erniemenehune/kontikishow.html

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14886 Derrick Bostrom Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:25:40 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14886 I never said there weren't antique stores and gift shops in Miami. No doubt , siince Globe is pushing outward and Miami is just a couple miles down the road, it too is doomed to one day lose its squalorous charm. But for the near future, it'll remain a nice out of the way place to live, provided you don't mind living amid boarded up buildings and doing all your shopping at WalMart. I never said there weren’t antique stores and gift shops in Miami. No doubt , siince Globe is pushing outward and Miami is just a couple miles down the road, it too is doomed to one day lose its squalorous charm. But for the near future, it’ll remain a nice out of the way place to live, provided you don’t mind living amid boarded up buildings and doing all your shopping at WalMart.

]]> By: GrannyJ http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14883 GrannyJ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:15:33 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14883 I took a look at the Miami photos andI must say they belie part of what you said about the town. Severl of the photos show old commercial buildings that have been quite gentrified, meaning that, if things don't get too bad, more will follow. Looks like the arty folk have found new cheap digs that won't stay that way long. I took a look at the Miami photos andI must say they belie part of what you said about the town. Severl of the photos show old commercial buildings that have been quite gentrified, meaning that, if things don’t get too bad, more will follow. Looks like the arty folk have found new cheap digs that won’t stay that way long.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14879 Derrick Bostrom Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:48:45 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14879 Ahh! That's more like it: http://walkingprescott.blogspot.com/search?q=yarnell Thanks! Ahh! That’s more like it:

http://walkingprescott.blogspot.com/search?q=yarnell

Thanks!

]]> By: GrannyJ http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14877 GrannyJ Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:47:50 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14877 I'm flattered to have made your cut! Thanks for the shout out. However, for the record, I have posted other pieces fromYarnell. Go back to the Shrine post & type in "Yarnell" in the search box at the top of the page. It's a splendid little town that's grown, but not explosively. However, if you want to see another sad little town, there's Ashfork or Holbrook, left behind by the modern highway system. I’m flattered to have made your cut! Thanks for the shout out. However, for the record, I have posted other pieces fromYarnell. Go back to the Shrine post & type in “Yarnell”
in the search box at the top of the page. It’s a splendid little town that’s grown, but not explosively. However, if you want to see another sad little town, there’s Ashfork or Holbrook, left behind by the modern highway system.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14869 Derrick Bostrom Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:23:03 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14869 Look again! Look again!

]]> By: Steve H. http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-14867 Steve H. Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:04:43 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/10/02/postcard-collection-greetings-from-arizona-part-one/#comment-14867 I didn't really see a whole lot of difference between Globe, Bisbee, and Miami.... I didn’t really see a whole lot of difference between Globe, Bisbee, and Miami….

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