The Drawn Cutlass: The Quick Red Fox

Friday, January 09, 2009

The Quick Red Fox

Vixen helps herself to a fisherman's catch:

The title of this post brings back Navy memories and is also a literary reference. Bonus points to whoever guesses the literary reference.

2 comments:

Barco Sin Vela II said...: John Dann MacDonald, "The Quick Red Fox". Travis McGee. It was about an actress that Trav was doing/rescuing and her character either returns for this story or returns in a later edition.

45 more minutes and I can return to Slip F-18.

P.S. All of the McGee books contained a color in the title. I really liked the final one, "The Lonely Silver Rain" Hope I got that right, working on memory...; 1/09/2009 04:18:00 PM
Bob said...: I remember back in the mid-'80's living in Spain, and one day the Stars & Stripes featured a wire service interview with MacDonald, who said in the interview that he had a last McGee book in his safe called A Black Border For McGee that he used to blackmail his publisher into paying him more money for his books. The book, if it ever existed (MacD. may have been joking) has never surfaced.; 1/09/2009 04:44:00 PM

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The Drawn Cutlass Philosophy

Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect, and don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security, it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety

All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.

Restaurant Ratings

My restaurant ratings, mostly intended for BBQ restaurants, will be on a 1-5 scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. Unlike most reviewers, I don't intend to play games with the rating scale by introducing fractions such as "2 and 1/2" or "4 and 3/4," I've always considered that stupid and a signal that the reviewer is trying to avoid making an honest 1-5 judgment.

Here is the breakdown of the ratings:

1 out of 5: waste of time, crap, unable to finish eating; apathy by staff/ownership

2 out of 5: edible, but no effort to impress; staff/management going through motions; desultory.

3 out of 5: average; reasonably good food, moderate effort by staff/management

4 out of 5: good; tasty, well-prepared food, staff alert, restaurant clean.

5 out of 5: great; excellent food, cooked fresh. Staff attentive and proactive, management responsive to complaints. Restaurant spotless.

Friday, January 09, 2009

The Quick Red Fox

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