{"id":88565,"date":"2014-08-23T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=88565"},"modified":"2021-05-12T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:12:26","slug":"10-years-of-sunset-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=88565","title":{"rendered":"10 Years of Sunset Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Morgan&#8217;s great site <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunset Gun<\/a> turned 10 years old this August (a nice dovetail with Dorothy Parker&#8217;s recent birthday as well). Kim, who is one of the best writers working today, celebrates the moment by <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2014\/08\/ten-years-august-13th-marked-ten-years-of-sunset-gun-of-course-i-forgot-the-actual-day-im-not-good-with-birthdays-orannive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-visiting the topic of her very first post, <i>The Bad Seed<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Her writing has enriched my life. Seriously. It&#8217;s strange: I discovered her long before I discovered her site. As a matter of fact, the first piece I read by her (in Salon.com) went up before Sunset Gun came to life. The piece made such an impression on me that I printed it out. It was in a more innocent time where I still was devoted to having hard copies of things I felt were important. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks be to archives, that piece, about the &#8220;barrel-chested man&#8221;, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2000\/10\/24\/barrels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now available via Salon&#8217;s archives. <\/a> You can feel both the authority and the emotion in her voice. Her voice is unique. There is no other voice like it. It struck me <i>immediately<\/i> as someone I wanted to listen to. <\/p>\n<p>Years later, I discovered her bright pink site (I can&#8217;t remember the first piece I read), and it would be awhile before I put it together &#8211; that this woman was the same woman who wrote that Salon piece I loved so much. When I figured it out, I thought to myself, &#8220;Of course. Of course. I would recognize that voice in a dark alley.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Her topics are wide and deep. She writes about music (she&#8217;s written pieces on <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2013\/11\/you.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dale Hawkins<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2012\/05\/briefly-with-so-much-more-to-discuss-but-for-now-just-take-a-listen-rock-pioneer-link-wray-most-famous-for-rumble-was.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link Wray<\/a> that are high watermarks for me), but also about film and actors. Her essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2013\/07\/the-love.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the great Warren Oates<\/a> is essential. And words can&#8217;t express how excited I am to see her video-essay on Oates in Criterion&#8217;s upcoming release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/boxsets\/1073-the-shooting-ride-in-the-whirlwind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monte Hellman&#8217;s <i>The Shooting<\/i> and <i>Ride in the Whirlwind<\/i><\/a>. Kim gets Warren Oates like no other!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare that you discover a new writer who is actually <i>exciting<\/i>. I can count those instances on one hand. Kim Morgan is at the top of the list. <\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Sunset Gun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Morgan&#8217;s great site Sunset Gun turned 10 years old this August (a nice dovetail with Dorothy Parker&#8217;s recent birthday as well). 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