It’s John Ford Country…

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As Joel Goodson’s father tells him in “Risky Business” (1983): Sometimes you just gotta say “what the heck.” I’ve long wanted to visit Monument Valley, a natural wonder and part of the Navajo Nation Reservation. It’s perhaps made most famous in the Westerns of John Ford… but the location has also appeared in any number […]

Raw Miles

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Inevitably, the prose of these entries fails to meet the aspirational dreams and fantastical beliefs that I’ve crafted the perfect bon mot/insight/tale/”blog post.” I’ve mentioned before the John Ford film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). It has that famous quote: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The problem with reality is […]