“That’s a long ride on your bare bottom.”
-Lee Marvin to Claudia Cardinale in “The Professionals,” 1965
I’m standing in front of what is left of the set that the moviemakers built in Valley of Fire State Park in south central Nevada. This is where Marvin read that line to Cardinale, after he and his mates kidnapped her from Jack Palance.
The hacienda and mine that Burt Lancaster and Woody Strode blew to hell with dynamite stood where the parking lot now is. Woody Strode played Pompey in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1960?) – one of the few movies John Wayne made where he didn’t spank Maureen O’Hara. Lee Marvin was in that one too, as Liberty Valance. I refer to the title character on the first page of my first novel. You guys knew that, right?
There’s a trail that winds for a mile and a quarter around huge mountains of solid rock called the White Domes. Somebody, probably workers of the CCC, put in stone steps so tenderfeet like me can climb down and see this wall, so it was fairly easy to get to, as getting to things in this vast desert goes.
I know the photo is a bit fuzzy and it looks like you’re seeing me from half a mile away, but I cropped it and you should see the pic the way TVNA took it – he just HAD to get the 300 feet of rock escarpment behind me into the shot, so I look like a very small blip on a very large landscape in the original.
Then there was Mouse’s Tank, a waterhole that’s viable almost year round where a renegade Paiute called Mouse hid from the authorities in the 1800s. I tramp in the desert quite a bit with TVNA, but this was the first time I ever had to negotiate water hazards. This isn’t it, Mouse’s water hole, but the rains a month or so ago were almost unbelievable, as you can see in these photos.
These below are some petro glyphs from a few hundred or maybe a thousand years ago. I can read them, of course. It says, “The mule deer in these parts are mine. If you bag one I get a cut, so drag it along the dry wash due south of this big giant rock to where my hut is and we’ll divvy up.”
What? You don’t imagine I’d fudge on my Paiute petro glyph translation, do you? I thought not.
That is all.
Devlin out.
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You sure do look good in jeans, Uncle D. … even without dribbly chocolate all over them. ;)
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Great photos and looks like you had a good time in the desert, Bro. Didn’t know you were fluent in petroglyph but am not surprised by the things the Professor knows. Like a while back when you wrote about how prehistoric man first disciplined the females.
‘The Professionals’ was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin and a sexy Claudia Cardinale, you can’t get any better than that.
I still can’t think of Lee Marvin without thinking of wanderin star.
Thanks for inbeding it in my head.
Ps, cool jeans professor.
If you squint your eyes you can see a spanking scene in those glyphs.
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Can too. *G*
If you look even further to the left, to the very edge of the photo, I’m pretty sure it translates to, “Buy ‘ A Maid For All Seasons 1″……
Not being that familiar with the ancient world, I’m not exactly sure what that means, however…..
Dr. Ken
“Like a while back when you wrote about how prehistoric man first disciplined the females.”
Just curious . . . was that a first-hand account?
Ouch. Season, that’s pretty bold.
Dr. Ken said about the petroglyphic: “…I’m pretty sure it translates to, “Buy ‘ A Maid For All Seasons 1…”
and Season said about Dev’s knowledge of prehistoric man: “Just curious . . . was that a first-hand account?”
Bro, kinda gives new relevance to the saying “older than dirt.” *G*
Polly, can definitely see you being the free spirit and scrambling up the rocks and splashing in the water. More likely splashing Dev and ending up over his lap as he sits on one of those rocks to spank your naughty bottom.
Yes, Jay, that’s what Season is – if by ‘bold’ you mean ‘manifestly in need of a long scolding and a sound spanking on her impudent bare bottom.’
(Laura should be chiming in soon to question my imputation of a human attribute to a mere body part. Hi, Laura! *G*)
Glad you guys like the jeans. Wranglers. The shoes are Nikes. The sweatshirt reads Boise State University Speech and Debate. Can’t remember what color my underwear is.
I can’t quite make out the spanking scene Gwen mentions, but I’m prepared to take her word for it.
“Can’t remember what color my underwear is.”
Bro, with all these age jibes zinging about don’t think you want to give the girls any straight lines like that.
Professor I’d worry less about the color of said undies and try to remember what style they were.
Y-fronts?
Boxers?
Briefs?
And if you put any on at all, ewww gross. I just got a mental picture *shudder*
“Yes, Jay, that’s what Season is – if by ‘bold’ you mean ‘manifestly in need of a long scolding and a sound spanking on her impudent bare bottom.’ “
Dev, we’ve been over this – Season could be an impudent bottom (not having met the lady in question, I really can’t say), but she simply CAN NOT have an impudent bottom! It doesn’t matter if the phrase “falls trippingly from the tongue,” there is something wrong with it!
Plus, isn’t it bad form to out your lurkers, Dev? But so long as I’m here…Hello!
Not ‘outing’ anyone, Laura – I was dragging you in, and welcome!
As to imbuing a certain body part with human attributes, I’m afraid you’ve a long row to hoe convincing any of the Tops around here to give that up. It’ll be fun watching you try though. *G*
Hi, Laura and welcome! Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Season Penelope Parker and I assure you I am not impudent. I prefer to think of myself as “misunderstood”.
I was a very good girl before this blog sucked me in. Still am but I bumped into a little thing here called Top Logic and somehow all my good deeds get re-interpreted as naughty.
So once again, welcome. And blog with us at your own risk because past this point there be dragons.
Gwen – I see what you mean! There’s Dev holding a cane over his head in both hands. See it? Like a ref signaling a touchdown.
That’s it, Season. And to the right of it is a couch, which Dev is about to sit down on to put a naughty girl over his lap, and to the right of that again is a hieroglyph signifying ‘target area’ – and below that is Dev’s open palm. You’ll notice the forefinger is extended, because he’s making some professorial pronouncement like “You, young lady, are in deep trouble….”
“… past this point there be dragons.
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Can’t argue with that, Season.
And I could have sworn this was a no-trespassing sign, but with all these petro glyph experts around I figured I should take another look and sure enough there on the left are the trees from which the prehistoric Paiutes cut their switches.