Jack Bettridge's Blog Archives

May 2008

Scene Smoking

Posted: 12:39 PM ET, May 18, 2008

Have Gun – Will Travel rerun, “Show of Arms” (circa 1957).

DAWN in SAN FRANCISCO’s Hotel Carlton, where the TV western’s main character, Paladin (played by Richard Boone), lives out his alter ego as a wealthy dandy (when he isn’t riding the range as a highly principled gun for hire, “the knight without armor in a savage land”). Read more

The Sounds of Silence

Posted: 09:13 AM ET, May 06, 2008

Sunday night was my first great chance of the spring to blow smoke on my new deck. Perfect weather. A day of yard work behind me. It’s a school night so the kids retired early. No sound but that of the cardinal that’s nested in a mountain laurel. Read more

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