Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Sinking Joy

Guy Smith | April 27, 2009

While cruising in a 38′ ketch down Florida’s stately Indian River, I had a revelation that a lifetime on and around boats should have come sooner to this cowboy’s alleged mind (but then again, a yachting cowboy is an odd concept that might be a revelation to others).
What I finally realized is that there are [...]

Deadly Delays

Guy Smith | April 25, 2009

Nothing in life is perfect, and the process of publishing is so far from perfect that saints look askance at everyone in the profession, including writers.
Especially writers.
I received a proofing copy of AFTERLIFE, my upcoming novella. Now, every book ever printed has some problem with it. A typo, a typesetting glitch, some other [...]

Minor Miscalc

Guy Smith | April 20, 2009

Obama is off by a mere 787,000%.
News comes this morn that upon returning from his handshake and book club meeting with Hugo Chavez, Obama is allegedly feeling the heat for his staff’s belittling of Americans protesting government excess. In a fit of newfound fiscal fidelity, Obama has instructed his cabinet to find $100M in [...]

Tea Tremors

Guy Smith | April 19, 2009

An opening salvo was fired on Wednesday. Was Washington D.C. listening?
In several hundred places around the country people skipped work to engage in the exercise of free speech and redress their grievances. These protests were called Tea Parties, named after a rather infamous gathering of the same title in 1773. That ‘party’ [...]

That’s Novella

Guy Smith | April 14, 2009

A new novella by yours truly will hit the shelves in a few weeks, so warm-up up those now seldom-used credit cards and help stimulate my economy.
The teaser for the book:  What if life got more complicated after death?