h/t American Digest
Month: March 2012
SAA Symposium on Dogs
Back in January I posted on a symposium at the upcoming Society for American Archaeology meetings on the archaeology of the human/dog relationship. I promised to put a link up to the paper abstracts when they were released and you can find them here at the SAA website. Browse to your heart’s delight. Here is …
One more irresitible quote
“There are times when the most amused and phlegmatic traveler in the Phillipines (and elsewhere) yearns for a country of deep reserve and formality where everyone calls each other “Sir” or “Madam” and wishes to know no personal fact of any kind. This country, it is true, sounds like a cross between Claridge’s and Ladakh.” …
Tavi & Riss
Tavi being photogenic as usual; upwardly mobile Larissa hobnobbing with Shiri’s screenwriter friend Rex.
An Accidental Cowboy, Barking Backward
I have always found people with multiple passions more interesting than single- subject obsessives. I first became aware of Jameson Parker… well, a LONG time ago, when he starred in our generation’s finest California TV mystery series Simon and Simon, playing the preppier younger brother and partner in a PI business to Gerald McRaney’s Marine …
Apologies and some light blogging: Prairie Gos
Have been ruining my health and especially my right, mouse- running hand (Parkinson’s overlaid with arthritis exacerbated by gout and maybe carpal tunnel syndrome- AAARGH!) working overtime on the last details for the eagle book- I promise a real cover soon. I need a few days away from this keyboard, working at the town library.To …
Western Samizdat
I know Steve is very busy working on galleys for his new eagle book, so I figured I would put up a link to a very complimentary piece by Bill Croke that was in today’s American Spectator. The subtitle says it all: If you haven’t read New Mexico writer Stephen Bodio, it’s time you did.
Trans-Atlantic Migration Theory
In the last week or so, the UK Independent and the Washington Post have both carried stories about new evidence that might support the trans-atlantic migration theory for peopling of the New World advanced in the 1990s by Dennis Stanford (Smithsonian Institution) and Bruce Bradley (University of Exeter). I was just looking back and I …
Hot Links
Makes sense: giant dinosaurs had giant fleas. Or as the Yahoo headline writer put it, “When blood-sucking mega-fleas stalked the Earth.” Rather florid. Alcohol a factor in woman’s cannonball death, authorities say. And to show you that things are really hoppin’ in San Diego County (see woman’s cannonball death) 50 roosters rescued as police break …