I really enjoyed this article in the NY Times about horses in Pleistocene cave art. From what I have seen in the literature, most researchers seem to believe that animals represented in Eurasian cave art are accurate depictions of the animals living in our ancestors’ environment. For example, in The Nature of Paleolithic Art, Dale …
Month: November 2011
Running Dogs
Herb Wells of Alpaugh CA takes the most amazing photos of coursing dogs I have ever seen- probably that anyone has. A couple of sets here. The first three pics demonstrate the incredible and totally normal hyperextension and flexing of a running dog’s first joints (third is also one of out own breeding, Daniela’s Shunkar). …
Lame excuses and photo posts
Apparently finishing the eagle book meant MORE work- I have totally reorganized the library and am organizing book selling, wood heating, the next book, and getting Momo aloft. Which leaves precious little time to blog (yet). But on the principle that everybody likes bookshelves pix here are a few shots of the “new” library. I …
Homecoming
Husband Jim’s Uncle Walter passed away early last week, so we left home Friday to attend the memorial services in Cheyenne. We were gone for about 30 hours, and of course I was nervous about how the animals faired while we were gone. When we arriving to see the ewe herd in the river bottom, …
Hot Links
The LA Times proclaims the cactus pear is the Rodney Dangerfield of the fruit world. Well, people don’t mind all the seeds in watermelon, do they? Someone tries to rob the wrong pizza delivery man in Memphis. Someone tries to rob the wrong motel in Los Angeles. Researchers find evidence of prostate cancer in an …
Poem
In A Large Greek Colony, 200 BC That things in the Colony are not what they should beno one can doubt any longer,and though in spite of everything we do go forward,maybe—as more than a few believe—the time has cometo bring in a Political Reformer. But here’s the problem, here’s the hitch:they make a tremendous …
Nash’s Chill and Liver Tonic
Several of my great-plus grandfathers made a very good living manufacturing patent medicines in the South from the 1870s – 1930s. Their best known product was Nash’s Chill and Liver Tonic, which was a big seller in an era when that part of the country was still plagued with yellow fever and malaria. I have …
Sign in My Neighborhood
In the Land of No News
If you are looking for a reason to be cranky, check out this snotty, condescending, know-it-all explanatorium about us benighted prairie-dwellers lost in flyover country that was vomited up in the NYRB blog section. The comments are a kick, too. Dissect at your leisure.
Hot Links
The Department of Defense has big plans to keep our soldiers going on caffeinated jerky. (H/T Via Meadia) And keeping with the jerky theme, a guy who was in my Boy Scout troop in Memphis is CEO of a company that is producing bacon jerky. Coming to a Walmart near you. My fellow Faulkner fans …