Stingray has a post at the always- excellent Atomic Nerds, on tattoos and their changing (?) cultural significance: “…When LabRat and I went to purchase our current truck, we did what most antisocial nerds do and researched the bejesus out of every option available and every configuration, and based on MSRPs made a short list …
Month: March 2008
Goshawks DO Play!
Gos and his toy.
Unspeakable Allies
ANOTHER “You Can’t Make It Up” moment: Ingrid “Holocaust on your plate” and “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” Newkirk has bonded with “Hang ’em if they won’t fight” dogfighter Michael Vick. “Vick, demonized by PETA for more than a year, could become the bridge in this divide. Newkirk struck …
Sunday Links
We have all heard the legends of dolphins helping drowning humans. Now one appears to have helped guide stranded whales to safety. John Wilkins, who posts at the interesting evo- blog Evolving thoughts, went to see Richard Dawkins lecture and had some critical thoughts. I can’t resist quoting: “In particular I was annoyed that those …
Sighthound Trials / Blogger Meet-up
I took the family (Maggie and B above with puppy friends) to Bush, Louisiana, yesterday for an afternoon of lure coursing, and (as it happened) sunburn—Summer is very nearly here. Our whippet’s breeders Debbie and Maurice Bahm of DebMar kennels hosted the event on their own property, recently cleared with help from Hurricane Katrina. Although …
Those Aggressive Swedes
The New York Times reports that an exhibit entitled “War Booty” at the Royal Armory in Stockholm (including these two beautiful Polish helmets) has roiled nationalist passions in Scandinavia. The NTY expresses astonishment at this development in “peaceable” Sweden. One should reflect that the histories of Swedes who went viking and terrorized Europe in the …
Ladies, Be Seated
I just wanted to make sure no one missed this news item about a woman in Wichita who spent two years sitting on the toilet in her boyfriend’s house. As someone once said, you can’t make this stuff up.
Running for Rabbits
I told Steve this might be the quintessential Querencia story. I mean it covers special places, foodways, hunting, paleo-history, culture, more and certainly, worse. It is a story so politically incorrect that it simply has no political context in which to fit. It is a story out of time. From my point of vantage, locked …
Stuff Falconers Like
Have you seen the recent spate of funny (and distinctly un-PC) blogs featuring “Stuff ____ People Like,” where various races and ethnic groups fill in the blanks? 2Blowhards provides a short list here. This got me thinking about a new meme: Stuff Falconers Like. You could tailor it to any pastime I suppose, although I …
Mystery Plant
On his visit last week,Dan showed us these photos of a mysterious plant he photographed in San Diego. I think it is South African but don’t really have the botanical chops to ID it. Readers?