OK, Gang, I’m getting some great local press, which I’ll type in and share with you after KOTA, a Rapid City TV station gets through interviewing me for the news tonight!
Couldn’t done it without ya!
Also if the Commission will compromise, and work out a workable busking law, then I will put on the damn cowboy hat and join the Living History Foundation with the money Wyatt Earp gave me to pay the dues for insurance! If anyone can figure out a way to get rid of the hated hat and come up with something more tuned in with what I’m doing, holler. I’m half Scots-Irish, all American mutt!
However, this could be a war of attrition!
Wearily yours,
Anna
Let it shine! Anna “Dances with Weasels” Martinez
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-03-29 14:34 ]
I must be a western character…thinking about a few other things that are applicable and won’t cost too much money. I have a fake cowboy hat with a beaded hat band that I only wear to weddings! I have to be western. I just hate hats, that’s all. I’m looking prety cute in my Chiff & Fipple T-Shirt and cap, waiting for the TV lady to come!
Get a Scottish cap with the little dingly thing on top. The Canadian woodsman wore em as well as earlier trappers. I do re-enactment of Gold Rush and got a cool one from JA Townsend (historic clothiers). I know this is all in good fun but there really was a lot more DIVERSITY in the ole days of homemade clothes than what we might even imagine those old days to be. I don’t think anybody cared then.
Anna,
Since you brought up hats…
I’ve been a hat guy for a while so I’d thought I’d post the hat I bought on-line.
Cheap (Under 25) kinda, Aussy/Cowboy keep the rain of fine. Brim is also nice for keeping wind out or just pull down for a snooze.
You can find it at Carolina Leather Work - Yahoo shopping under Sundowner Leather Hat It comes with a plain band which is what I have. You could add what ever you want to the band to portray your Scots-Irish.
LMAO! I look like a basket ball! Nice of you, Lee…I’m gonna check into it, I just hate hats, but it is probably a good idea! I’m hoping that the Black Hills Muscians Guild gets in there and asks for a Busking Ordinance. I’m not going away, and don’t really want to escalate my stunts…but, I’ll be a jailbird for playing the whistle, if I have to!
On 2002-03-29 16:17, LeeMarsh wrote:
Anna,
If you have to pick a western character, you might want to consider Mrs. McCoy. You know you could play a tune, a Reel McCoy.
Or maybe Wilameena Whistler, and complain that you brother the arteest didn’t make a cent on that picture of your mom.
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Laughing myself into a belly ache! Just what the doctor ordered!
anna,
seems like you could get by with just wearing a feather,i don’t see how anyone out there could complain about cowboys and indians.
good luck,tansy
On 2002-03-30 10:12, tansy wrote:
anna,
seems like you could get by with just wearing a feather,i don’t see how anyone out there could complain about cowboys and indians.
good luck,tansy
Hey, I like Indians, which makes me dangerous…but nope, no feather, some Native Americans would be really insulted…and these issues are really raw
…interesting side bar here…
Excepting for playing my grief for 9/11, during the Deadwood Jam, people ignored me except for vets, and they were generous to a fault, the slot zombies crawled and paid no attention to me at all…Dig this…
The only people in Deadwood who stopped and listened and tried to hand me money were Native Americans. One lady pushed 34 cents into my closed fist because she said she liked the music. The other was was this darling, chubby Native American girl, who was following Mom from casino to casino…when they passed me, she gave me a realy shy smile. Mom just crossed the street, adn I could tell they little girl was bugging the day light out of her. The went into a casino, the little girl came out with a dollar in her hand and gave it to me. It didn’t matter whether or not she didn’t have that puppy dog “Gee, I wish I could do that” look on her face, I gave her whistle and a hug…I get this cheezy smile on my face when I think there might be a possibility of that high A sharp coming from a casino door…I would have liked if we could have just sat for a while…
Anyhow…let me post a pic of playing cowboys and Indians here in Deadwood!
The cheapie we townies use is the Snowy River, which has a slightly upturned brim:
If you get rid of the feather and saturate the brim and sit the hat on a table with the front of the brim hanging over you get something pretty close to the perfect Aussie hat!
Rob (who loves his sunburnt country!)
[ This Message was edited by: Mastersound on 2002-03-31 00:37 ]
This ones in leather, instead of felt. One of the first things I did with mine is turn down the front of the brim. It did pretty well on a 2 month trip to Houston, TX. with average dayly highs in the 90’s. Started to get that weatherd look. I figure another year or so and it’ll be good and broke-in.
Glad to hear you like your sun-burnt land, I spent a couple of years just east of you (Geelong, Victoria) as a kid. Lotsa good memories.
