Mixin' Misery & Skiin' - Heinsian Skiboy in Western Music by Gary Heins - HTML preview

Acknowledgements

Special Thanks to:

Terry Abelin, Ernie & Martha Anderson, The Apache Indians & Sunrise Ski Area, Diane Baker, Joe Borque, Junior Bounous, Donna Brummer, Renny & Tracey Burke, Barb Burrows, Pat Campbell, Gordon & Dian Chalmers, Regina Clark, Doug Coombs, Herb Davis, Sam DiBella, Bob Emery, Jay Evans, Patrea Faulkner, Susan Federspeil, Alan & Marsha Garber, Victor Gerdin (Vic-Tor), Tommy Hammerel, Susan Hedden, Henry Hornberger, Rick Jacobs, Beth Jones & Chris Latham, Barbara Kaplan, Joan Kaufman, Greg Keeler, Rick & Terrie Klein, Christine Langdon, Janette Langdon, Kip & Dara & Anne Laughlin, Elton Lee, Rich Lee, Shawna Lockhart, Kent Lundel, Donna Mahony, Mike & Cheryl Martin, Cynthia McHugh ("Massey"), Matt Merritt, Jamie McIntosh, Theo Meiners, Jim C. Moore, Dan Mortensen, NostraThomas, Kay & Gary Owen, Craig "Roper" Pearson & the old Park City Ski School, Vern Peterson, Tom Pettigrew, John Ramage, Bud Ridenour & the old Red Lodge Ski School, The Robison Family of Red Lodge 1979-80 & their Bogart's Pizza, Dale Rundell & Brian Head Ski School, Miriam & Mike Sodergren, Pepi Stiegler & the old Jackson Hole Ski School, Don Scott, Jeff Socha, Keith Talley, Paul Trout, Cory Vellinga, Joe Waggoner & the old Bridger Bowl Ski School, Stuart Wilde, George Willett & Showdown Ski Area, Marianne Wood, Ace Wright, Jeff Zell, Jim Zell, Julie Zell, Jane Dantz, and the thousands more who have egged me on.

Extra Special Thanks to

GARY HEINS'S ROUGH READERS

(you know who you are)

Extra Extra Special Thanks to

PSIA

(for driving me to my full potential)

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WebSite: www.wrangler-skier.com

WeBlog: www.HeinsianSKIING.com

E-mail: GARYHEINS@Gmail.com

GARY HEINS

circa 1990

at the HeinsQuarters of the

SWINGIN' G RANCH

when most of his writings were conceived and planned out as he followed the candles along the way

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Hear what others might have said about

Heinsian SKIBOY-n-WESTERN MUSIC

By GARY HEINS

"'If I can make fun again, it looks like Heins has gone . . .

from bad to verse in his writing."

--Mike Finnigan

"I always figured Gary's skiing career would take a turn for the verse."

--Doug Coombs

"What I learned most skiing with Mr Heins is this: 'you can get further with a kind word and a pun . . . than you can with just a kind word.'"

--Al Capone

"I guess the flowery kind of poetry doesn't grow too well in the ski world."

--Rod McKuen

"I imagine writing ski verse . . . is like playing tennis with the net up, only the net is probably strung together with barbed-wire, and the rackets are likely snow-shoes."

--Robert Frost

"Gary Heins is likely . . . the greatest ski writer who's ever lived. To ski, . . . or not to ski--that is the question."

--William Spakeshear

"When I'm writin', I'm right."

--Gary Heins

"For those of you thinking about being teachin' skiin', what it is is a thirty-five-year chair ride."

--Merle Haggard

"Heins is so fun, so thorough, I knew when I saw his first four or five ski books, I said to myself: 'The verse is yet to come.'"

--Gary Heins

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"Advice is like snow: the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Heinsian Skiboy-n-Western Music . . . sounds like good deep advice."

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"With Heins, ski teaching is not just a purpose . . . but also a passion."

--Edgar Allan Poe

"I've heard of 'Pair o'D's' before, . . . but I didn't realize they could be parodies in Ski-boy Music. . . . Maybe Heins should think about going global."

--Dolly Parton

"Don't underestimate the Power of Poetry."

--Unanimous

"The Ski School Business is going to get my verse before it gets better---I'll stick to my puns on that."

--Gary Heins

"I have a dream; . . . Gary Heins has a turn, . . . away from PSIA Politics."

--Martin Luther Skiing

"We love you, Gar': Just sit there and teach."

--LeeAnn Womack

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Watch for SWINGIN' G BOOKS n videos

by GARY HEINS:

HAVE HARMONY WITH WOMEN

--Heinsian WESTERN SWING

ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER

--Heinsian DOWNHILL SKIING

SIT DEEP IN THE SADDLE

--Heinsian WESTERN RIDING

poetry and song:

RIMES OF AN ANCIENT SKI TEACHER

--Heinsian SKI-BOY POETRY

MIXIN' MISERY & SKIIN'

--Heinsian SKIBOY-n-WESTERN MUSIC

friction:

THE GREATEST SKI INSTRUCTOR

IN THE WEST

THE PROHIBITION

OF SNOW-BOARDING

--THE ENFORCEMENT OF TRUE DOWNHILL SKIING

By GH--USST

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some bonus books:

THE GREATEST SC

S HOO

O L

O -BUS

S

DRIVER EVER

ESCAPE ON TWO WHEELS

--Heinsian BIKE-PACKING

And watch for these columns:

RIDING WITH HEINS-SIGHT

(TWELVE READS)

SKIING WITH HEINS-SIGHT

(FIFTEEN UPRIGHT COLUMNS)

GOLFING WITH HEINS-SIGHT

(--NINE WHOLE COLUMNS)

"BUTT-FIRST" WRITING

--THE HEINSIAN WAY

(TWELVE INSTILLMENTS)

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So stay tuned for :

GARY HEINS

& His

DUAL GS SKI-BOY BAND

or the simpler venue:

GARY HEINS

SINGIN' CRUD

--the finest in

Heinsian

SKI-BOY-n-WESTERN MUSIC

--where . . . he uses skiing as a crutch, to get away from his troubles

--they say he can sing

. . . like he don't need the money

To bring

GARY HEINS SKI-BOY MUSIC

to your area, . . . or to find out his other services, call the HeinsQuarters of the:

SWINGIN' G WINTER RANGE

PO Box 784

Saint Johns, Arizona 85936

(928) 205-7756

Thanks.

www.wrangler-skier.com

and

www. HeinsianSKIING.com

E-mail:

GARYHEINS@Gmail.com