The Failure Pile Glory Hole

[Bob Boze Bell]

February 23, 2011

   Well, I have been threatening to do this for a couple months, but Robert Ray finally came in my office after lunch today and said, "When can you make time to go to your studio and allow me to video tape you showing everyone this Failure Pile you keep talking about?"

 

   I looked at the unfinished stack of pending business on my desk and replied, "How about right now?"

 

   So we drove out to my studio (about three miles north of the True West World Headquarters), walked in, and without prepping much, we shot it, as is. Here is my Failure Pile in all its cluttered glory:

 

 

Gee, I wonder what ol' Rooster has to say about this?

 

"This don't come within forty miles of being a coon hunt!"

—Rooster Cogburn on the hunt for Tom Chaney in the Indian Nation

[Unkle Sherman]

That wuz fun

[Steven Wright]

Loved the tour! Need to do stuff like that more often.

[Jim Holden]

Great stuff!  Fascinating to see the process you go through to get just what you want.

[Celeste Sotola]

Bob, I've never seen so many misfiled art works in one short film. They're beautiful, string them all together and make the opening scene to a Great Western Epic movie. I think you've raised your bar so high that all your piles put together could fit under it.