Not a very spectacular photoshop, but what the hey.

UPDATE:  Oops!  I forgot to also say that this is for Cowboy Blob's Weekend Caption/Photoshop Contest.

I received an email today from Jesse L. Wolf Hardin regarding my old post about the Stevens Favorite.

Mr. Hardin is the author of a book called Old Guns & Whispering Ghosts (follow the link for full details).

Bringing to life for you the legendary firearms and amazing landscape, dramatic events and irrepressible spirit, characters and contradictions of the Old West – like none before – whether you are an “in the know” antique arms enthusiast, or a history buff with little previous interest in guns. Enjoy the story of the West’s legendary firearms and the fascinating individuals who carried them... some who are justifiably famous, others shamefully forgotten.

This post isn't an ad, and I haven't read the book, of course, since I learned about it only today.  But I thought I should mention it because it looks like a great book and I think some of you might also find it interesting.

How's that for a twofer?

Found at Dark Roasted Blend by El Capitan of Baboon Pirates, who tipped me by email.

And this gives me as good an excuse as any to mention that one of my feeble attempts at weird fiction is a Lovecraftian pipe story called Seafoam.

I just figured out that if you had at some point in the past changed your url over at Blogspot, the old blog at the old url still remains.

And then, if you go into your dashboard and "create" a blog with that old name, it remembers that it already belongs to you and reactivates a "new" blog under the old url.

Why did I even think to try this?  Because this week I've been wondering if someday I might have to just chuck it all here and go undercover, and begin blogging anonymously.

It was kind of an accidental discovery, actually.  I was looking for different available Blogspot urls and when I tried one, the site that came up looked oddly familiar.  It was the url of my original blog four years ago, when I was the only person who knew about it.  I didn't even remember having used that name.  I must not have kept it very long.  Back then, since I knew no one was reading it anyway, I kept trying different names and urls, trying to come up with something "cool."

From Oleg Volk.

Follow the link for lots more images on this topic.

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