PG Pearl Gets A One Way Ticket Out of Arizona

[Bob Boze Bell]

July 30, 2012

   Got some big rain last night. Very humid out this morning. Tommy and Pattarapan are back from their world globe trotting tour. Had a 24-hour flight from Bangkok. Picked them up at Terminal 3 on Saturday at 2 then sped over to La Frontera for street tacos, then out to Grandma Betty's where Debbie had made homemade green chile. Now THAT'S The way to return from a world tour my son beamed.

   Painted all weekend, plus created a safe haven for Peckasso in the chicken coop. He got out during the rain storm and I went out this morning to see him running for his life from the big, fat bitches. Finally got tired of the chicken shit. Took me half a day to clean out his mess.

   Between mopping and disinfecting, I did manage to paint a few pictures, including this one of a very pregnant Pearl Hart being paid off with a one-way ticket out of Arizona.

This was not known until the 1950s when, I believe, a secretary to the governor confessed the truth about Pearl's mysterious pardon from the Yuma Pen.

"Man who go through turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok."

—Old Confucius saying

[anthony martin]

  Bob,

    Was pearl's heart shaped highlight on her swelling belly intentional or just a happy accident?Is that quote really from Confucius?I could have sworn that it was attributed to Won Hung Lo!

[Bob Boze Bell]

Half an accident on the belly and totally wrong on the attribution. That was, in fact Won Hung Lo who originally said that.

[Margaret-Anne Moore]

The saying is probably much too modern to be Confucious, and, pardon my ignorance, but who is Won Hung Lo?

[Bob Boze Bell]

A juvenile, crude joke made up by teenage boys to mock and mangle a foreign language into a lewd reference to anything sexual. One Hung Low, as in testicle.