Matt said: “You were a writer already into his own by the time I found that excerpt from “Rage” in the Smithsonian(?). But maybe you’d like to share some of your early unpublished work with us 🙂 and let us try to find the ghosts of Kipling and Hemingway in it? Maybe it’s not there …
Month: August 2005
Influences Part 1
The subject of influences and finding one’s own voice is a big one, and I am going to have to think a lot about it. But let us make a start. My mother started reading Kipling to me– The Jungle Books– when I was about three, and they may be the reason I started reading …
Kennewick win!
The Department of the Interior has reversed its position on the provenance of Kennewick, from siding with the Indians (i.e. that he could be identified with the present- day Umatillas– or any other tribe) to siding with the scientists, a victory for reason. Money quote, from the Society for American Anthropology: “The hearing brought several …
Bad news for the Sage Grouse
As all news seems to be. The magnificent Sage grouse (now considered to be composed of two species, the Sage, Centrocercus urophasianus, and the Gunnison, Centrocercus minimus) is the biggest grouse in North America and perhaps one of the ultimate quarries for dedicated falconers because it is so good in the air as well as …
Ultmate in cluelessness?
At least, a leading candidate: “The bureaucratic mind at work, from the WSJ Political Diary: “Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia to Iraq by a chartered airliner, the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to go through the same security checks as any other passengers. Lt. Col. John King, the …
Hello from Africa
Alpha Enviros Jonathan and Roseann Hanson have been off- line because they are in Africa learning to be guides from the Maasai. Just got a note, which I quote: “We drove two Land Cruisers all over the country. Roseann made other guides nearly drive off the road when they saw her. Then we went up …
Fan (non)fiction
Matt here, and let me tell you how (and who): I’m a falconer and a reader with about equal enthusiasm for each pursuit, which explains my familiarity with Steve Bodio’s work. I am a Bodio fan and have been since my first days as a falconer in the mid-80s. A couple years ago I stumbled …
Cloned Dog and Afghan Intelligence
The Big Science News today is that Korean scientists have cloned a dog — to be exact, a rather handsome Afghan. This is all very interesting, but other than the anti- cloning tizzy that it has thrown Bay Area animal activists into– I’ll try to find a link– one of the interesting aspects is how …
Squid Attack
Annie Davidson sends us this elegant attacking squid from the amazing Pharyngula.
Archaeology Blogging, First Americans and more…
Reid Farmer has been sending many good papers and emails– so many in fact I have invited him to join the blog, which I hope he will next week. Meanwhile go here and here and here for some good early American stuff. (The last has a lot of links to other papers as well). Most …