06 January 2008

Union Station, Sacremento

The urban cowboy wears a cowboy hat, shiny red snakeskin boots, a big gold watch, and a black leather coat -- mid thigh length, unless he's a serious hustler, in which case he might sport a duster. He has an expertly manicured goatee and small, piercing eyes. The painted-on wranglers, crisp unfaded black. Silver bolo to match a silver belt buckle. He walks tall with his shoulders thrown back, and when he stands to contemplate something, he cocks one hip out and places the curled pointy toe of his right boot at a fourty-five degree angle from his elbows, which stand out from the hips on which his hands are placed.