Some of the best pix of a goonch I have seen. Wade made it famous and it made Wade famous. I remember the mention of it in Wade’s first book, Somewhere down the Crazy River. I have multiple copies. I checked the price of a hardcover copy and it was $500. Wow, I am glad I got it when I did. …
Grouse Camp 2026
An iconic Ogden Pleissner. Grouse camp was mid week. It was good to get out. It is hard to believe we have been doing it for 40 years. Last Year.
Romantasy, Novels, etc
Jones notes that plenty of people in the literary world “lament that the only books that sell now are faerie or dragon or elfpunk porn.” The Real Selling Point of Romantasy Summary How Sarah J. Maas became the queen of romantasy In Depth The state of the book and publishing industry has changed for …
“Me-nas passage” ??
On September 12 the water at Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia, rose 48 feet in six hours. It was the biggest tide of the year, in the bay with the biggest tides on Earth. I put NOAA’s model of the Bay of Fundy on a map: the water level and the current, hour by hour. That …
Surreal Whimsy with a Grain of Truth
A flood would do it.
Rewilding Novel Book Review
This prize-winning sci-fi novel about wolf rewilding made me cry When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift somehow delivers both a determined call for more wildernesses globally – and a great novel. Sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson is thrilled she gave it another chance. This August, the novel won the hugely prestigious …
Burian
It almost looks like a still from a forgotten B-movie, but it’s actually an illustration from the first Czech edition of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Zdeněk Burian, 1937. Burian is a favorite but I didn’t know he did this kind of work. I mostly know his paleontologic reconstructions. Cthulhu rises? Source …
Not unlike some humans.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. When I try to feed my crows and the gulls muscle in they swallow whatever it is faster than I can imagine. The fur on this squirrel likely slowed this guy down. The squirrel was most likely road kill.
A rule known until now only in a hawk.
Why does a lion brake in the middle of a chase? Not because it is tired. Speed makes every turn wider, and past about 5 metres a second a lion cannot push sideways against the ground any harder. So to follow a zebra that cuts away, it has to slow down. A research team filmed …
Ruger Collaspe?
News Link I don’t know what is going on but Steve was a fan of Ruger guns, especially the NO. 1 rifle. He would be disappointed. Money is likely behind it. Another corporation may have bought them. Usually that leads to cheapened products as they exploit the name.