Patrick Dorinson has spent his fair share of time bellied up to the bar top.
And as the years have gone by, Dorinson, now 73, has watched himself morph from the one seeking advice from the old guy at the end of the bar to the guy doling out the wisdom.
On Thursday, that bar will be 477 Distilling in Greeley, as the political strategist turned cowboy turned author unveils his newest book, “The Common Sense Cowboy’s Guide to Life: Stories from the Old Guy at the End of the Bar.”
“When you’ve been on this planet for 73 years, you’ll learn a lot,” Dorinson said. “Some of it good. Some of it not so good. But it’s always the experiences that make you a better person. So this book is really my feelings on all the things that I have learned over the years. And also kind of advice for people going forward.”
The event, “An Evening with the Common Sense Cowboy,” will be an intimate night of stories, music and whiskey. It runs from 7-9 p.m. and will include a Q&A with Dorinson, moderated by the book’s ghostwriter, Mathew Klickstein of Greeley. Attendees will also be treated to a fashion show by Whisky LaRue & her Westernettes and live music by Carlos Castellblanch. A distiller pours an Old Fashioned during a demonstration at 477 Distilling in Greeley on Sept. 2, 2020. (Greeley Tribune file photo)
“We wanted it to be multi-faceted,” Klickstein said. “So we were trying to find ways to make it a true ‘evening with.’ So we brought Whisky LaRue in with her girls doing the Westernettes thing. Then Patrick and I will be doing the Q&A, we’ll be doing book signings and we have Carlos, who’s going to be playing music for the last hour.”
While Klickstein’s residence makes Greeley a logical place to host the event, Dorinson also has ties to the area, as his mother was born in the city in 1916 — though, with less than 10,000 residents at the time, it may be tough to call that version of Greeley a city.
“It feels natural,” Dorinson said. “For me, it’s kind of like coming home.”
But Dorinson wasn’t always “The Common Sense Cowboy.” He spent a good portion of his adult life working in politics. Though politics comes up from time to time in the book — as he still makes regular appearances on Newsmax, a conservative cable news network — he believes he broached the topics from as unbiased a point of view as possible.
“Think of America as a car careening down the road,” he said. “In the front seat are the two political parties, and they’re both grabbing at the steering wheel, swerving left, right, left, right. And in the back seat are you and me and the American people, scared to death.”
Dorinson, who says he has “spent time on both sides of the aisle and in the aisle itself,” worked for both Al Gore and Arnold Schwarzenegger before his mother’s death in 2005 made him think about how he was spending his time.
“When I was a boy, she told me all the cowboy stories and everything else about the lifestyle,” Dorinson said. “And as I got older, I never forgot about those stories. … When she died in 2005, I had a little reevaluation — a bit of an epiphany — and I said, ‘What am I going do do with this part of my life?’ So I started taking up the cowboy way.’ “
He talks a lot about that cowboy way in his latest book, which Klickstein describes as “Will Rogers meets Mark Twain.”
It is organized by day of the week, starting with Monday because it is the first day of the workweek. But as he admits, “work don’t pay no mind to clocks and calendars.”
Each day of the week is broken down further into a series of words, each making up a chapter of a few pages. And each chapter begins with a pertinent quote, labeled “Cowboy Wisdom.”
“I would give him a word, kind of an association word. He would just start talking about it,” Klickstein said. “And then I would prompt him every now and then or ask, ‘Well, what does that mean?’ Or ‘Can you talk a little more about that?’ ”
Monday’s words: childhood, pets, noise, education, humor and simplicity. Sunday’s: therapy, death and future.
“You can pick it up, and you can read one chapter,” Dorinson said. “And if you put it down, one chapter is not connected to the next.”
The book signing is free to attend, and copies will be available for purchase. For more information on Dorinson, go to PatrickDorinson.com.
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