I'm guessing but I bet they have had that logo for decades. How would it be to live in a place where you can get together with friends and discuss bullfighting, go to the fairs, etc. ?
Like I've said before, it's not easy being a bullfight fan in the US.
You have to be careful of what you like on Instagram because of course once you "like" something it changes the whole algorithm.
Anyway, the above photo isn't a real house for sale in Sevilla, it is just an AI generated photo. But.... my wife has suggested for awhile now that we paint our house. She likes the color white even though our neighbors beat us to a new white paint job a couple of years ago.
I wanted to go with something different, a Santa Fe look perhaps but she keeps talking about white. Perhaps if I can sneak in some yellowish trim like in this photo, obviously copied from the Plaza de Toros de Sevilla, I might just be able to pull off the coup of the century.
A Maestranza inspired house and she wouldn't even know it. Hmmmmm......
Ugly Outlaw Hats was founded in 2018 by actor and hat maker Travis Lee Eller, born from a lifelong love of the American West, it's history, characters and unmistakable style.
Travis's work as an actor - particularly in Western film and television - has given him a unique perspective on what makes a Western hat feel authentic. Over the years, Ugly Outlaw Hats have been made for actors, television and film productions, musicians, re-enactors, historians and Western enthusiasts looking for something with genuine character.
Every Ugly Outlaw Hat is individually handcrafted and distressed to create the appearance of a hat that has already lived a life, Rather than looking fresh off a factory line, each hat is shaped, aged, weathered and finished by hand, giving it it's own personality and story.
Drawing inspiration from the Old West, classic Western cinema, and the rugged men and women who wore these hats as part of everyday life, Travis approaches each piece with an actor's eye for character and a craftsman's attention to detail.
Since 2018, the philosophy behind Ugly Outlaw has remained simple:
A great Western hat shouldn't just look authentic, it should feel like it has a story to tell. Ugly Outlaw Hats - Made for characters. Built with character.
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So "Ugly Outlaw Hats" popped up randomly on my Facebook page for some reason but I'm glad it did, I've had fun today going to their website and browsing their hat selection. Talk about awesome hats.
I don't wear cowboy hats, the last time I wore one was when I was a kid and participated in the Little Buckaroo Rodeo at the Golden Spike Arena in Ogden. I did take first place one year in "bronc riding" so I guess I do have a little street cred if I want to wear a cowboy hat again some day.
I've often thought if I make it to Sevilla one year for the Feria de Abril, or to Jerez one year for the Feria de Caballo, I'm going to have to look the part and wear a cowboy hat.
One of these from the Ugly Outlaw Hats store might just be what I will go with.
10th Corrida de la Insurgencia, plaza de toros San Marcos de Aguascalientes.
Artwork by Paloma Velarde Valiente
Homenaje a Joselito on the 30th anniversary of his historic performance in Madrid where he killed six bulls insolitario.
This photo of Victor Puerto and his capote caught my eye with the inside color almost turquoise.
I'm not sure what the significance of the different colors means, maybe nothing. Maybe everything is just personal preference.
From left to right:
Morante, El Fandi, Manzanarez, Castella, El Juli, Cayetano, Enrique Ponce
Photo taken by Manuel Queimadelos Alonso
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I tried to make the photo look old with the basic photo editor on my phone. Maybe I need to try and edit it with that newfangled AI stuff.
I posted a version of this photo before where someone had already "aged" it.
https://blogplazadetoros.blogspot.com/2014/09/blog-post_5.html
(above photo is a recent cleaned-up and colorized version)
(santafenewmexican.com 8-14-25)
If you believe Randy Guijarro, a California collector, Billy the Kid and some of his friends posed for an unidentified photographer while holding croquet mallets in September 1878, soon after the end of the Lincoln County War. That month, New Mexico Gov. Lew Wallace issued a proclamation of amnesty for all parties involved — except those, like the Kid, who were under indictment for murder.
Guijarro bought the 5-inch “Croquet Billy” tintype at a memorabilia shop in Fresno, Calif., in 2010 along with two other old photographs for about $2. The image, which had no identifying markings, depicts five men, six women and seven children shot from a distance in front of a wooden board-and-batten building along a graded road. After enlarging the image, Guijarro thought that one of the men holding a mallet was the legendary outlaw. He also thought he spotted the Kid’s girlfriend and some other members of the Regulators, the deputized posse formed to avenge the murder of cattleman John Tunstall.
A documentary film producer got interested in his story and says he and others have authenticated the photo. A two-hour special, Billy the Kid: New Evidence, is scheduled to air Oct. 18 on the National Geographic Channel and broadcast around the world in 171 countries and 44 languages.
The multimillion-dollar film was produced in partnership with Leftfield Pictures and 18THIRTY Entertainment. The executive producer is Kevin Costner. The film is currently in final editing.
If the story is true, this would be only the second authenticated photo — and the first “discovered” one — of the infamous outlaw and fugitive. In 2011, William Koch, the billionaire businessman and conservative activist, paid $2.3 million at a Denver auction for a tintype of the Kid.
In a telephone interview Monday, Guijarro said he’s convinced this is also the real deal. “We’ve proved it,” he declared. “It’s authenticated.”
Others are not sure.
Gary Cozzens, manager of the Lincoln State Monument, said that while welcoming the research that went into the documentary, monument officials and the Department of Cultural Affairs are “unable to confirm authentication of the photograph in question as being a picture of Billy the Kid or other members of the Lincoln County War era.”
And Daniel Kosharek, photo curator at the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, said, “To me, and most other folks in New Mexico, the photograph does not look at all like a scene in either Lincoln or New Mexico. Add to that, the people in the photograph are very small and difficult to see [and] it is just plain problematic on a lot of fronts. How this particular one has gained so much traction is beyond me.”
He added, “As you know, this is a rather constantly arising issue which I believe is driven primarily by the sales potential of such a likeness.”
Jeff Aiello, founder and executive producer of 18THIRTY Entertainment, acknowledged Monday that there have been hundreds of purported Billy the Kid photographs to surface since the Koch purchase made the news and whetted the appetites of collectors hoping to cash in on the mania.
But even if there is no written chain of custody, Aiello said, “That doesn’t mean this isn’t real.” Lacking provenance, “You have to supplement with overwhelming circumstantial evidence, and that’s what we did. We had to convince a lot of people that this photo is real.”
In fact, he added, “We had to report findings every week to Kevin directly.”
Guijarro had done some of his own research, but he didn’t get much support from collectors who told him his find was a fake or from the Lincoln Historic Site, where he sought help about two years ago.
But Aiello got involved after meeting Guijarro last year, and then things started to happen. Aiello asked Guijarro to allow him to have the photo so he could do some research on his own, with the idea that if he determined it was real, he would make a documentary about the project.
In January, Leftfield Pictures contacted him and later signed on as co-producer. Then National Geographic wanted in, with an infusion of money.
One of the first things Aiello did was find an expert to compare faces in the photo to known photographs of people the Kid rode with, such as Charlie Bowdre and Tom O’Folliard, who were the Kid’s friends and Regulators; Sallie Chisum, a friend; and Paulita Maxwell, the Kid’s girlfriend. He also consulted tintype experts like John McWilliams and Will Dunniway, the master “Yoda, Jedi of tintype photography” who worked on the restoration of the Koch tintype. They see thousands of Kid pictures a year, but this one passed their initial test, Aiello said. He also consulted Paul Hutton, a Kid expert at The University of New Mexico.
Chisum’s old diary, in a library at New Mexico State University, was missing some pages and she never reported “that day we got together and played croquet and had a picture made.” But the diary did confirm, Aiello said, that all the people the researchers think they identified in the photo were around the middle of August 1878 to the first week of September.
Then in July, Aiello became convinced that they had nailed down the site on the old Tunstall Ranch where the photo was taken. He said the schoolhouse in the photo is still there. There’s no evidence of the croquet set, however, which he suspects belonged to Tunstall, an Englishman.
The biggie, however, was the forensic testing, Aiello said. Kent Gibson, who specializes in enhancing audio and video evidence for courtroom situations — and is a die-hard croquet fan — offered his services to help him and the others find out if the photo is real. He confirmed their suspicions, Aiello said.
“This is a hard thing for people to wrap their heads around,” he said. “It’s is too good to be true. Yet we have proven it in multiple ways.”
(1976)
Localizada en la ciudad de Pachuca de Soto, tiene capacidad para 10 000 asistentes.
(opened 1978)
Morante's capote de paseo that he wore on October 12, 2026 in Madrid for the Corrida de la Hispanidad was from 1916. It belonged to Domingo Uriarte "El Rebonzanito."
Tell me that isn't art.
Desmontando bulos: confirmado el auge del toreo en 2026
(mundotoro.com 10-28-26)
Los datos sobre la celebración de festejos mayores (sólo los de carácter profesional: corridas de toros, festejos de rejones, novilladas picadas y festejos mixtos) durante la temporada 2026, certifican la salud del toreo y su renovado músculo social. El aumento de festejos se observa, por primera vez en muchos años, en todas las categorías de festejos. Así, las corridas de toros aumentan en 20 más que las 410 celebradas en 2025. En 2026 se celebraron un total de 430.
Un incremento que también han tenido en el apartado de las novilladas con picadores. De los 248 festejos de 2025 se ha pasado a los 269 en 2026. Un aumento de 21 novilladas picadas. Respecto al mundo del rejoneo, la noticia del aumento de festejos es más relevante. Desde hacía una década no aumentaba la producción de este tipo de festejos. En 2025 se celebraron 98 festejos y en 2026 se alcanzó la cifra de 107.
En cuanto a los festejos mixtos, un recurso opcional o combinación de circunstancias, en 2026 se han celebrado 22 espectáculos de este tipo por los 27 del año pasado. Las cifras de esta estadística pertenecen a las elaboradas por mundotoro.com durante 25 años.
https://www.mundotoro.com/noticia/desmontando-bulos-confirmado-el-auge-del-toreo-en-2026/1987884
I wish I could find more of these "season statistic" posters.
They are so cool and worthy of being framed and displayed proudly in my living room or den.
Here is a link to a 2022 post I did about another season stat poster Morante did. link
Sadly that 2022 image isn't detailed enough to where I could blow it up and have it printed off. Damn it.
The Mystery at Rosa's Cantina
By Jack Sorenson (American, b. 1955)
Oil on canvas
I've seen this painting pop up several times on different social media sites over the years. I figured I might as well post it here and save it. Not sure if "Rosa's Cantina" is the same one as mentioned in the Marty Robbins song or not. I guess you would kind of have to figure it is but ...
Whether it is or not it is kind of a cool paining.
Here is a link to a post I did about the Marty Robbins' Rosa's Cantina trilogy.
So I've been on a little bit of a Billy the Kid kick lately. Actually I have always been interested in Billy the Kid since the Young Guns movie back in the late 80's.
It is nice now with computers and such they can clean up old photos and bring things to life. The other day I came across a cleaned up photo of Billy and I liked it so much I had to use it as my phone wallpaper.
One thing about daguerreotypes is they would show the image backwards. So for my wallpaper I flipped the photo around so the rifle in Billy’s left hand is correct.
OneToro had today's bullfight from Lima so I sat down and watched half of it, then I had to get outside while the weather was decent and get the lawn mowed. (In the photo is Morenito de Aranda with a bull from the Victorino Martin ranch.)
I give thanks everyday I can watch bullfighting from the comfort of my own home.
I also renewed my OneToro subscription for the year today. It was a little interesting, I wanted the 99 Euro special price but couldn't see where to enter the promo code. So then I had the idea to just delete my account and then give it a day or two and sign up again and see if then it would let me enter the promo code. What ended up happening though was when I went to cancel it then took me to a page where it offered me the 99 Euro price anyway as a way to keep me from canceling.
Problem solved and I am a happy subscriber for another year.
El 19 de Mayo de 1966 actuo Curro Romero como unico espada en Sevilla con 6 toros de D. Carlos Urquijo, y el resultado fue una esplendida tarde en la que corto 8 orejas. Dicen que aquella tarde nacio el mito y la religion Currista, aunque los aficionados ya hablan de tardes inolvidables desde sus inicios como novillero.
The last bullfight held in Barcelona was September 25, 2011.
It isn't against the law to hold a bullfight in Barcelona but I think they don't even try anymore due to local political backlash and the riots in the streets around the plaza that would occur. Any promoter that would put up money in hopes of making a profit is taking a huge risk.
Maybe some day someone will try seeing how the bullfight is surging in Spain right now it seems.
Released in 1982, The Man from Snowy River remains one of Australia’s most beloved films.
Inspired by Banjo Paterson’s famous 1890 poem, the movie blends adventure, romance, breathtaking scenery and unforgettable horsemanship into a story that still resonates more than four decades later.
The film follows Jim Craig, played by Tom Burlinson, a young mountain horseman determined to prove himself after the death of his father. He finds work with wealthy cattleman Harrison, played by Kirk Douglas, and soon develops feelings for Harrison’s strong-willed daughter Jessica, played by Sigrid Thornton.
But the moment that truly defines the film is Jim’s legendary ride down a dangerously steep mountainside while chasing a mob of wild horses. As the other riders stop at the top, Jim charges forward. The spectacular sequence captures the courage and determination at the heart of Paterson’s original poem and has become one of the most memorable scenes in Australian cinema.
The scenery is equally unforgettable. Much of the movie was filmed in Victoria’s magnificent High Country, where sweeping valleys and rugged mountains give the story an epic atmosphere. Combined with Bruce Rowland’s soaring musical score, the landscape almost becomes a character itself.
The film was a major box-office success and helped bring Australian cinema to international audiences.
Ultimately, The Man from Snowy River endures because it offers something timeless: courage, romance, magnificent horses and the determination to follow your own path—even when everyone else is afraid to follow.
