Conversations with B B Thunder...
Letter to Hub Miller, June 7, 1999
Hi Hubdude,
The Russell deal fell through, wouldn’t you know it! That good-for-nothing partner of mine Rosco was sent to jail just before we were to close on the interim financing. Never mind, the Adams project is on track. We’re just about at the point where we can start plans for phase one… that’s the shopping center and the first block of offices.
I’m consolidating my assets in South Carolina, the little building materials company I’m trying to buy would be a perfect fit with my way-mix firm in Charlotte. As soon as I get some lines patched through to there, I’ll let you know what’s going on. In the meantime, the weather here in Seattle is fabulous, forty six degrees and drizzle…. When it’s like that, you know summer’s finally here!
We were a little late again getting to Saint Joe’s tonight, so here we sit near the Under-Ground Seattle Tour entrance …. Jake’s down at the end of the alley boiling something that looks like a cat…… what the hell! Only problem is… the fire keeps going out under the pot. Maybe we’ll eat and maybe we won’t. Tomorrow I’m getting in line under the viaduct early… time for some real food and a hot shower. I’ll tell you what! When the Adams deal gets up and running, I’m moving indoors.
I’ve got a twelve passenger Gulfstream jet aircraft on order and….. World!... Here I come! Trixie… bless her heart…… I wish she’d stop telling me I’ve got delusions of adequacy……. Thinks I lay around on my ass all the time just because she has a job. Just wait until I take her up in my jet…. Thanks for the money…. Those snapshots weren’t much to go on, kind of fuzzy… but I hope the old broad in Switzerland likes it. At least I got more than the top of her head on the canvas …. I had a lot of trouble with those glasses though…. Painted it under the Ballard Bridge…. but it’s too crowded to work over there now. Your friend brought me some more art stuff yesterday and I got it stashed in a garbage can. Let’s start on anther project together, these portrait commissions are great, all the guys like watching me work on them… but I’ll really have to go up in the price soon, $25.00 just isn’t what it used to be.
Till Later dude
BB
The Russell deal fell through, wouldn’t you know it! That good-for-nothing partner of mine Rosco was sent to jail just before we were to close on the interim financing. Never mind, the Adams project is on track. We’re just about at the point where we can start plans for phase one… that’s the shopping center and the first block of offices.
I’m consolidating my assets in South Carolina, the little building materials company I’m trying to buy would be a perfect fit with my way-mix firm in Charlotte. As soon as I get some lines patched through to there, I’ll let you know what’s going on. In the meantime, the weather here in Seattle is fabulous, forty six degrees and drizzle…. When it’s like that, you know summer’s finally here!
We were a little late again getting to Saint Joe’s tonight, so here we sit near the Under-Ground Seattle Tour entrance …. Jake’s down at the end of the alley boiling something that looks like a cat…… what the hell! Only problem is… the fire keeps going out under the pot. Maybe we’ll eat and maybe we won’t. Tomorrow I’m getting in line under the viaduct early… time for some real food and a hot shower. I’ll tell you what! When the Adams deal gets up and running, I’m moving indoors.
I’ve got a twelve passenger Gulfstream jet aircraft on order and….. World!... Here I come! Trixie… bless her heart…… I wish she’d stop telling me I’ve got delusions of adequacy……. Thinks I lay around on my ass all the time just because she has a job. Just wait until I take her up in my jet…. Thanks for the money…. Those snapshots weren’t much to go on, kind of fuzzy… but I hope the old broad in Switzerland likes it. At least I got more than the top of her head on the canvas …. I had a lot of trouble with those glasses though…. Painted it under the Ballard Bridge…. but it’s too crowded to work over there now. Your friend brought me some more art stuff yesterday and I got it stashed in a garbage can. Let’s start on anther project together, these portrait commissions are great, all the guys like watching me work on them… but I’ll really have to go up in the price soon, $25.00 just isn’t what it used to be.
Till Later dude
BB
Letter to Hub Miller, March 2001
Hi Hubdude,
Your friend left me a package of scraps from the portrait I did of the old broad in Switzerland, and picked up a batch of paintings yesterday. I guess you’ll get them in a few days…. they’re all rolled in a tube together. How the hell did the old broad manage to rip the thing up that way and what do I do about it…. ? If you want, I’ll figure something out for $30.00 provided I get some art stuff to do it with.
You asked me for more recollections of life in Texas… I’ll have to think back some more. Anything I work on until summer will have to be small so I can work in a confined space.
Trixie says her mother won’t let me move in with them…. so…. It’s getting kinda soggy out here. The Adams deal is still on hold until the terms of the permanent financing are finally worked out so I’ll probably have to move in with ol Jake until the rain stops. He’s living in a grand piano someone threw in the Duwamish Waterway. The thing’s full of rats.
Later
BB
Your friend left me a package of scraps from the portrait I did of the old broad in Switzerland, and picked up a batch of paintings yesterday. I guess you’ll get them in a few days…. they’re all rolled in a tube together. How the hell did the old broad manage to rip the thing up that way and what do I do about it…. ? If you want, I’ll figure something out for $30.00 provided I get some art stuff to do it with.
You asked me for more recollections of life in Texas… I’ll have to think back some more. Anything I work on until summer will have to be small so I can work in a confined space.
Trixie says her mother won’t let me move in with them…. so…. It’s getting kinda soggy out here. The Adams deal is still on hold until the terms of the permanent financing are finally worked out so I’ll probably have to move in with ol Jake until the rain stops. He’s living in a grand piano someone threw in the Duwamish Waterway. The thing’s full of rats.
Later
BB
Letter to Hub Miller, July, 2002
Hi Hubdude
Life in Texas?….. well it’s mostly about gunfights, floods, fires and tornadoes and really fun tunes in and around springtime. I’ve already sent you some more ‘works on paper’ as you call them, many of them about back home… more to go. Now that the weather has dried out, I’m working on some paintings about Seattle and what’s going on here……. I think you’ll like them.
Jake’s still living in his piano…. Says he likes the privacy…. OK… I prefer it here in this beautiful park near the ferry docks and close to the Alaska Way Viaduct in case a shower blows in. It’s also close to the vibrant heart of Pioneer Square where I get so much inspiration. I’d like to do some more charcoal drawings of it if you can get me some paper.
As soon as the sale of my building supply and way-mix companys back east goes through, I’m planning to purchase a building at 80 south Jackson, that’s on First Avenue near where the King Dome used to stand. I’ll convert the entire top floor of the building, which extends more than half a block, to a living/working space for me and Trixie. I’ll send you an invitation to the loft-warming party.
Later
BB
Life in Texas?….. well it’s mostly about gunfights, floods, fires and tornadoes and really fun tunes in and around springtime. I’ve already sent you some more ‘works on paper’ as you call them, many of them about back home… more to go. Now that the weather has dried out, I’m working on some paintings about Seattle and what’s going on here……. I think you’ll like them.
Jake’s still living in his piano…. Says he likes the privacy…. OK… I prefer it here in this beautiful park near the ferry docks and close to the Alaska Way Viaduct in case a shower blows in. It’s also close to the vibrant heart of Pioneer Square where I get so much inspiration. I’d like to do some more charcoal drawings of it if you can get me some paper.
As soon as the sale of my building supply and way-mix companys back east goes through, I’m planning to purchase a building at 80 south Jackson, that’s on First Avenue near where the King Dome used to stand. I’ll convert the entire top floor of the building, which extends more than half a block, to a living/working space for me and Trixie. I’ll send you an invitation to the loft-warming party.
Later
BB
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