From the Author
Welcome to another guided tour of my world. As I travel back and forth across the country I pick up your stories like a horsetail picks up cockle burrs!
I repeat often that "I don't have to make this stuff up!" The truth underlying these stories is their appeal. It's the truth in humor that makes it funny (that's why there's no science fiction jokes). "That happened to me!" I hear said over and over.
How many different ways can a cowboy or rancher or farmer or veterinarian get bucked off, bit, stomped, run over, butted, stepped on, spit on, pooped on, gored, pummeled, pounded, dragged, snagged, flogged, bogged, plowed down, kicked up, pitched off, bowled over, punched out, scraped, lacerated, lamed, lumped, bumped, flattened, rolled, hammered, humped and humiliated? The answer: Apparently more than the number of stars in the sky!
How I wound up making a living entertaining the agricultural masses is still a mystery to me. I don't think about it except to appreciate my good fortune and to not take those of you who like my stuff for granted.
Many thanks once again, to the Bucarangelos; Buckaroo/Michelangelos, whose illustrations make my book eminently more enjoyable. Without them I'd just be another Homer without The Odyssey, Pablo without the Picasso, or Lemon without the Meringue! And one last thank you to you wonderful folks that keep me from needing to find honest work! I couldn't do it without you.
From the Inside Flap
Baxter Black, the best selling cowboy poet in the world, is back! And he is searing a new trail of cowboy philosophy and amazing feats of rhyme, in
Blazin' Bloats & Cows on FIRE! Blazin' Bloats features tales of intrigue, adventure, collisions, cows, cowboys, dogs, chickens, alpacas, and even Lebkuchens. Here you will find answers to questions like: "How did that fella set his hat on fire?" "What is the penalty for cow dancing?" "Why does America need cowboys?" It is cowboy enlightenment with heavy bouts of laughter!
Baxter always says it's the truth in humor that makes it funny. Telling the truth the best way he knows how, Baxter pushes the literary envelope with tales of scorched cud, tripe-eating triplets and a pawnshop pin-up girl.
Illustrated by four of today's most biologically correct and talented cowboy Bucarangelos, Bob Black, Don Gill, Dave Holl, and Charlie Marsh.
