Jutta Ruebesam’s team, tazi Nhubia and taigan Taalai:
Month: December 2011
Gos in action
From Paul Domski: a few of the amazing photo sequence that photographer Mark Wiliams shot of his Gos. (As always click to enlarge). Mark’s site is here.
Christopher Hitchens 1949- 2011 RIP
Damn but we are losing some good ones. I hardly always agreed with “Hitch” (who could?) but AM inclined to agree with Jonathan Hanson: “The collective IQ of the planet just dropped noticeably.” Update: hunter, man of letters, and Catholic Tom McIntyre is another not uncritical admirer. He writes: “According to NPR, Hitch’s most important …
Eevil Killer Dino- Birds
(With apologies to Darren). Walter Hingley sends word of new theories coming out the Museum of the Rockies about the ever- closer similarities becoming apparent between raptorial dinos and modern raptors. The illo is lurid but wonderful: Of course some of us have always thought so, notably John McLoughlin. “Washington and Moscow…” UPDATE: Quote is …
More John Lincoln Wright
Ironically but not surprisingly John Lincoln Wright’s few surviving recordings are now going through the roof. I only hope as commenter Pat said “… Rounder or some other outfit will release all of John’s music on CD.” Pat pointed me to some good YouTube links. If you don’t have time for the whole list, “I’m …
Old Stuff
Doing the sort of consulting work that we do in archaeology, we mostly don’t get to break significant new ground in research. We don’t get to pick where we do our work: the client decides where he wants to build his project. Actually, we devote much effort helping our client find places to put his …
Hot Links
Roaming around the internets, I keep bumping into stories about zombie ants. Apparently a fungus infects an ant’s brain and causes it to wander away from the nest and die so the fungus can consume the entire body. Maybe some of you biologically savvy folks know more about this. Makes for awesome pictures and the …
Ruins
Libby and I participate in a Forest Service program as “site guardians” for a known archaeological site, a rather large pueblo of perhaps 200-some dwellings. From any distance, despite its size, it is almost invisible– which in these days of thoughtless looting and vandalism, is probably A Good Thing. Peculiar has some things to say …
One Good Hound
Not all New Mexico hounds are tazi types; more are longdogs (locally more often called “staghounds”), deliberate and intelligently- bred crosses of various sighthound breeds. I have been hoping, and still am, that Clint Chisler would elaborate on the voluntary partnership between Lucy and a free falcon, but meanwhile here is his celebration of a …
Lavenham (& a bit of Falconry)
My sister Karen Graham and her husband George just came back from England, where they visited what remains of Lavenham air base. My father served there in a B17 crew during the war. Karen is standing on the old airfield in the second photo.My father, who was an art student before joining the Army Air …