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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 by Admiral_CoeymanThis is my first tirade since Joel’s tirade on duels. He was, of course, talking about gunfights in the old western United States of America in honor of his second section of the Western Wheel Carols. There really is nothing that I can add to that essay considering how much I have slipped into other tirades over the past months concerning honor. That being written, all that I can say is ‘draw.’
Now, that would likely get me shot anywhere else. It would not be that I do not deserve it either. However, I am saying ‘draw’ to an artist and not a gunslinger. The term has a completely different meaning to a cartoonist, animator, illustrator than it would to a gunslinger. This is just like the use of the term ‘spider’ to refer to a skillet with legs for cooking over a campfire. Many words have different uses depending on the context.
Some people say that a battery is flat and other people say that it is dead. There are people who live in a flat and people who live in apartments. Do dustmen pick up lighter trash than garbagemen? It is all a matter of context that determines if you lose your head figuratively or literally.
How many websites can you go to when you want a taste of old west action? There must be a need for it, judging by the amount of activity that this section of the site is generating. I think that Joel has hit on something with this new part of the site. Future students may be required to read “The Western Wheel Carols” in their literature classes. We may see a whole new collection of western themed products. Get back to a time when killing a thousand people was not just the result of a misunderstood villain.
So, I am putting aside my stand up philosophy routine for a day to invite the world to see what America was before we were trained to worship the ideals that our ancestors fled to settle here. Maybe it is time to clear the fog of cold war from our heads and realize that there is real good and evil in the world. What prevents Americans from producing uniquely American art? Look under the extras tab at the top of the main page to see some.
