Smoke Signals

Deliverance

Deliverance

by M John Fayhee May 3, 2011 May 2011

A few months back, I told you, in a Smoke Signals titled, “Hot Air,” about the two times I found myself, through no fault of my own (understatement), up in the wild blue yonder in a hot-air balloon. I might have even casually mentioned something about how BOTH OF THOSE BALLOONS CRASHED!!!

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Injun Joe

Injun Joe

by M John Fayhee April 5, 2011 April 2011

If you are inclined to recreationally eyeball road atlases as much as I am, you have probably graduated to the point where you see more than states and provinces, more than roads and streets, more than cities and towns. In other words: more than the obvious information one needs to travel more-or-less accurately from one’s [...]

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Little Dog

Little Dog

by M John Fayhee February 1, 2011 February - March 2011

Little Dog It took two years for me to be able to even think of being open to bringing a new dog into my life. It does not make me feel good to say this, but I am pretty much convinced that each of us will likely share time on this plane of existence with [...]

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Bad Trip

Bad Trip

by MG Admin January 12, 2011 January 2011

Author’s note: I spent literally months and months working on a fairly-heavy (at least by my humble heaviness standards) New-Year’s-based Smoke Signals about the fact that the municipal government of the town in which I live last year passed an ordinance that effectively puts the kibosh on panhandling within the city limits, and how that [...]

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Hot Air

Hot Air

by M John Fayhee December 9, 2010 December 2010

My buddy Pedro winked in my direction, smirked a mierda-eating grin and nodded his noggin Bobblehead-on-speed-style when I en- tered the Burro Borracho Cantina and Lucha Libre Emporium. “Well, I did it,” he said almost smugly as I approached. Despite every pre-purchase protestation I could muster, Pedro had just spent 242 hard-earned dollars for what [...]

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Digits

Digits

by M John Fayhee November 2, 2010 November 2010

There are few Mountain-Country nightmares more universal, more ass puckering, than the notion of unintentionally/accidentally (and, ergo, generally sans control, because, if you had control, then you would either be doing this on purpose or, failing that, not doing it at all) skiing into the trees. Avalanches trump that nightmare, sure. And being caught upside-down [...]

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Upwards

Upwards

by M John Fayhee October 8, 2010 October 2010

“If you deny what you know, or what you are, or where you are, you deny the simplest part of being alive, and then you die.” —Bel Kaufman, “Up the Down Staircase” The news came circuitously, and slowly, as is the way of these sorts of entrepreneurial endeavors: The Mountain Gazette was once again simultaneously [...]

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Monsoonal

Monsoonal

by M John Fayhee September 20, 2010 September 2010

It’s a strange and wonderful thing when the first few trickles of (hopefully) imminent monsoon season (like mountains, seemingly predictable weather patterns are well capable of displaying false summits) hit generally fairly parched Gila Country. That joyful cli- matic circumstance is exacerbated by the fact that those first welcome splats of precipita- tion follow what [...]

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