James D. Best

Us Old Guys Don't Like Change I rented Man of Steel last night. When I saw it in the theater, I was disappointed. Actually, more t...

Robert Duvall is one of my favorite Western actors. (Others on my list include John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck, Gene Hackman, Sam...

Western writers are like other fiction writers in that they have super powers. They can bend time, compress space, and sweep away boring pe...

Bender General Store and Inn In the early 1870s, the Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers on the Kansas prairie. The four m...

Those of you who follow this blog probably know my wife and I are moving from Arizona to Nebraska....

Superheroes are the polar opposite of a slice of life. Killing lifeless zombies, evil vampires, extraterrestrial aliens, or bad witches is ...