Entries Tagged as ‘Reading List’

January 12, 2008

Harvey Pekar’s book on the SDS

Nope, not a dang thing to do with horses and not much to do with barn culture as I have experienced it and I don’t hink horses have much to do with the SDS either unless there were some mounted police in Chicago in ‘68. But I’m a Pekar fan. So don’t steal [...]

September 19, 2006

Shank’s Pony

Today I was reading www.halt-near-x.com, a well-written blog devoted to horses.  Ms. X, the author, suggested a hypthetical registery for “Shank’s pony.”
“Shank’s pony, Shank’s pony,” I thought, “I have heard that phrase in some other context.  Oh!  Yes!  A Richard Thompson song called “Walking the Long Miles Home.”  The line is “When you ride Shanks’s pony, you [...]

August 30, 2006

Small Farmer’s Journal

If only for the geat pictures, both photo and old engravings, take a peek at Small Farmer’s Journal.  I bought a copy at our local Border’s because I was drawn to the oversize nature of the publication, the brown kraft paper cover, and the story on horse’s body language. There’s lots of cool stuff in the [...]