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Flying Pig

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About Me

I'm a blacksmith. I don't work with horses...that's a farrier. I make steel sculptures and furniture and fountains and stuff. I'm a snowboarder, mountain biker, homebrewer, dobro/harmonica player, and general cad.

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My Interests

Snowboarding, mountain biking, photography, home-brewing, backpacking, playing music... and stuff. .. Myspace Backgrounds

I'd like to meet:

If you're authentic, I'll be happy to meet you. Otherwise, I'm not interested, patient, or nice to be around.________________________________________________ As you can see, Milo is my constant companion.It's a kilt...say it with me. "kilt" Utilikilts ..________________________________________________

Music:

Changes from day to day. I listen to a lot of blues while I'm working.

Television:

Simpsons.... Antiques Roadshow..... Mostly PBS....NOVA....

Books:

Harlan Ellison, Dan Brown, Steven King (Dark Tower) Daniel Villasenor, the Science Fiction Century, Ray Bradbury, Mark Helprin. ..

Heroes:

Vulcan, Hephaestus, Urtengor, Mulciber, Kabeiroi.. _____________ My Work _______________________ Edited with myspacecodesrock.com Editor

My Blog

Music

It's been a few months since we played out 'for reals'.  I mean, we did that little giglet at the Harwood Museum for the Society of the Muse of the Southwest, but that was only really 30 minutes....
Posted by Flying Pig on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:20:00 PST

anniversary

It was nearly 2 years ago.  Roy Green was driving north on I-25, just south of the Wyoming/Colorado border.  The roads were snow-packed.  Mr Green, of Cheyenne, lost control of the truc...
Posted by Flying Pig on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:27:00 PST

So cranky.....

Just so you know.....I feel like sh@t.  My wife is an elementary school teacher, which means she works in a petri dish.  She brings all sorts of lovely germs home for me, fresh from kinderga...
Posted by Flying Pig on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

My celebrity look alikes

Buffalo Bill and Herman Melville I get....but BRIGITTE BARDOT? ...
Posted by Flying Pig on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:10:00 PST

Nothing in life is permanent, except change.....

I posted the following as a bulletin just moments ago, but thought that it was worth recording here as well.  If you've already read it, apologies.  Thanks for taking the time.My wife, Val, ...
Posted by Flying Pig on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:55:00 PST

Home again, home again...

We had planned to be gone until Saturday.  We had enough food and gear for a trip that long.  Milo and I left the house about 10 AM and headed up.  It's about a mile to the trial head f...
Posted by Flying Pig on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:05:00 PST

a stitch in time....

I was working in my shop a few days ago when I reached over a piece of pipe I'd just cut.  I didn't clean up the cut end, and it had a nice, razor sharp burr on the end.  Naturally, when I r...
Posted by Flying Pig on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

For the most part....

I really don't like people.  By and large, I'd rather be alone than have to deal with someone else.  No offense intended, it's just that people can't really be trusted.  By the way, I'...
Posted by Flying Pig on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:05:00 PST

How many degrees of separation?

I was at the pub yesterday to bend an elbow, so to speak.  I sat at the bar next to someone I didn't know.  He and I started talking about Taos and it's quirks.  He told me that he live...
Posted by Flying Pig on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:59:00 PST

Lou Dobbs

Here's the latest commentary from Lou Dobbs.  I'm posting it here because I just love what the man has to say, nearly every time he opens his mouth."An incompetent attorney general, who says he w...
Posted by Flying Pig on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:10:00 PST