Curmudgeon in Corduroy : The Best of Jerry

In "And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest", the essay which opens this compelling collection, Jerry Flemmons displays an uncommon sense of both history and fun. When it was announced that angels would adorn the facade of the magnificent hall to be built in Fort Worth for the performing arts, the columnist, intrigued by the incongruity of angels in Cowtown, demanded, "Where in the hell did those angels come from?" He finally solved the dilemma by deciding they were the fallen angels of Hell's Half Acre, "Irish Kate ... on the right, and Big Birdie ... on the left".

With strong affection for almost all things Texan, Flemmons writes of the ordinary with an extraordinary sophistication and cleverness. His Texas is sometimes a place of sadness, even tragedy, sometimes a place of high jinks and great jokes, but most often, it's a place of vanishing traditions and long-ago days. It's all here in this collection ... and it's Flemmons at his best.

He was a pallbearer the day they buried Lee Harvey Oswald in Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth. There was no one ar

Introduction

1

(6)

And Flights of Harlots Sing Thee to Thy Rest

7

(5)

Autumn, We Hardly Knew Ye

12

(3)

A Friend Falls in the Forest

15

(3)

Putting the Peas in Prosperity

18

(5)

The Shadow of Death

23

(5)

Of Dimple And Dixie And Dump

28

(4)

Dawn Comes Sunny Side Up

32

(4)

Out of the Frying Pan and into the Internet---Fry, Fry Again

36

(5)

A Boy's Life, before Litigation

41

(4)

Have Rubber Gun, Will Travel

45

(5)

On the Square It's Half Past Then

50

(4)

The Way the Cracker Crumbles

54

(4)

%&@!# and Stones May %&@!# My Bones

58

(3)

A Dance of Myth and Mane

61

(3)

More Do-Si-Do Than Pas de Deux

64

(5)

Death and Extra Innings

69

(3)

East Texas Brigadoon

72

(2)

Welcome to Culture Gulch

74

(6)

Before ``Dominoes'' Meant Pizza

80

(5)

Shades of Yesteryear

85

(4)

How Sweet the Sound

89

(5)

A Cowboy's Kingly Crown

94

(3)

Giddy Up---Way Up!

97

(4)

Makin' Bacon

101

(4)

The Lowdown on Hunkering

105

(4)

Mama Oswald

109

(18)

News You Can Use and Use and Use...

127

(4)

``Pee-Can?'' That's Nuts

131

(4)

Amon's Will Be Done

135

(4)

O, Say, Can You Secede?

139

(5)

The Twang's the Thang, Ya'll

144

(4)

Cleveland Colquitt, Where Are You?

148

(3)

Tiptoe through the Pigweed

151

(3)

The Eyes of Texas Were upon Them

154

(3)

Touchdown in a Small Town

157

(3)

If You Wish upon a Furculum

160

(4)

A Paradox in Pearls

164

(4)

West Texas Tree of Life

168

(5)

Jerry Flemmons, 1936--1999

173

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Curmudgeon in Corduroy : The Best of Jerry Flemmons' Texas

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