Thursday Night Boy Booty – Cowboy Style
A few weekends ago I hopped a train and headed south to visit my parents. They live in the closest thing California has to a “heartland” — the Central Valley. I grew up on a cattle ranch, and most of my extended family were cowboys and cowgirls. Weekends often consisted of cattle brandings or dancing the two-step to a live country band at my uncle’s bar or the local community dance hall.
It’s with warm affection that I regularly return to the countryside where I was raised. Sure, I was always the kid who was always reading books instead of riding horses. But I respected and admired real cowboys. My dad and my uncles were tough and knew how to run a ranch. They could herd and rope cattle, build fences that would last for decades, and if you got some of them drunk enough, they could knock you out with one swift punch.
I grew up and moved away from the ten-gallon-hat country western culture. But a little piece of it lived on in me, through my innate attraction to cowboy studs. Not that you’ll find me strutting around San Francisco in a cowboy hat or ass-less chaps. (Puhlease, I do have a sense of decency and style!)
So, in honor of all the real (and even some of the pretend) cowboys out there, tonight’s Boy Booty highlights cowboys showing some tush.
Update: Don’t miss my thematic cowboy Male Flesh post over at Mitchieville
