Both Peculiar at O & P and Heidi have been producing an inordinate amount of good bloggage lately and you should really read all of it. But a few highlights: here, Peculiar writes an essay on the late Steve Irwin that is far better than my brief commemoration below, going as he does into what …
Month: September 2006
One More Religion Post
Not a subject I want to get into often here, but this essay on The New Republic’s blog ( by a writer who is a secular Jew)seemed to have some small- l liberal things to say about the Pope controversy. Money quote: “By my human standards “No man comes unto the father but through Me” …
Jolly Good!
Merrie Olde England–the one with guns and fieldsports–may be gone (or going), but a few good souls refuse to let her die. Enter The Connaught Square Squirrel Hunt. You may recall a couple previous stories we shared, wherein British citizens lampooned the Hunting Act of 2004 (which outlawed, among other things, encouraging your dog to …
Puppies Like to Chew
……..all sorts of things, including cell phones. Here is mine (thank you, Sadie!) and believe it or not it still works. I’m sure Steve can relate.
Fire Season II
Back in June, I posted on the beginning of fire season in this region. Believe me, it is still going strong here, with a monster fire, called the Day Fire, raging east of here. The LA Times had good run-downs on it yesterday and today. It really slapped me in the face over the weekend. …
DNA Research and the Chumash
This interesting article appeared in the LA Times while I was out of town. It discusses the work Dr. John Johnson of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and others are doing with mitochondrial DNA in living Native Americans and prehistoric remains and what it has to say about the peopling of the New …
Steve Releases the Pigeons
In Magdalena. Plus the other pigeon loft.
Preview
We will soon have a European correspondent– a Magdalenian at that. Here is a foretaste: “In any event, I spent the last week in Tirana, Albania. It’s an interesting city, really in the early stages of becoming a completely different place I think. All the buildings are garishly painted in fresh coats of primary colors, …
Pure Fun
Another fine and funny female essayist has a piece up on– well, a lot of things, including bottoms, bosoms, and “Things which are neither one thing or the other”. Here as a taste is a swerve through (over?) vegetarians: “Vegetarians are a pain at dinner parties, forcing decent omnivores to eat like rabbits or the …
NOT prissy!
Larissa— who is as far from a “frigid, frustrated suburban biddy” as anyone I can think of, is furious with, among other things, crude come- ons: “But when he spoke, his intentions were so unappetizingly clear—so impersonally sex-driven –that out of abashment and instinctive non-whoriness I mentally aborted those embryonic “maybe” thoughts I had harbored …