“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”  Jane Austen

Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle.
He’s got two large bags over his shoulders.
The guard stops him and says, “What’s in the bags?”

“Sand,” answers Juan.

The guard says,”We’ll just see about that ~ get off the bike.”
The guard takes the bagsand rips them apart;he empties them out and
finds nothing in them but sand.
He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed,
only to discover that there is nothing in the bags.

The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags,
hefts them onto the man’s shoulders, and lets him cross the border.

A week later, the same thing happens.

The guard asks, “What have you got?”

“Sand,” says Juan.

The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags
contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan,
who crosses the border on his bicycle.

This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years.
Finally, Juan doesn’t show up one day
and the guard meets him in a cantina in Mexico.

“Hey, Buddy,” says the guard, “I know you are smuggling something.
It’s driving me crazy.  It’s all I think about. I can’t sleep.
Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?”

Juan sips his beer and says, “Bicycles.”

One of the best poems ever written by one of the best actors who ever performed. Thanks to the LA Examiner

Check this out – Gigantic blocks of ice fall from sky!

Just like the mailman, rain nor sleet nor snow will stop us as we begin travelling through Alberta and BC promoting my just released book Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored. And we drove through all three to get to Lethbridge for a great book signing at Chapters there. Here I am being interviewed by Mark Campbell for Global TV.

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Hello, friends and family!  Please please please please (this is the begging part)

We need your help with book promotions today. Juanita’s new book, Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, and The Ignored, will get a BIG boost on Amazon.com if you go there TODAY and look at it. That’s all, just look at the sales page, though you’re welcome and encouraged to buy one if you like (great Christmas gift!)

So follow the link, please – and get all your friends and contacts to do it, too. Today. Now! Thank you from us both.

http://www.amazon.com/Almanac-Infamous-Incredible-Ignored-Juanita/dp/1578634474/

Tony and Juanita

After the theft of ten Andy Warhol painted pictures of sports figures from an LA home – gosh was it only three weeks ago – I keep watching for a follow-up story, but nothing yet.  Probably have to wait twenty years for the movie. It does seem interesting though, inspite of the dearth of information. Here’s the article. Would love to know if you hear of anything that I might not see.

What kind of animal is this and what is happening in the picture?

“I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost. “  -  John Philpot Curran

Philip Marlowe: “I was tired of being pushed around for nickels and dimes so I decided I’d write about murder. It’s safer.”