We went to the outdoor wedding of Jake Stamper and Eva Trujillo last week. Nothing says western like people doing show and tell with their guns in the parking lot at a wedding. My hunting partner, Piet Ditmars, and his wife, Jessica Abberly , admiring a CZ Bobwhite .410. Consensus among knowledgeable friends suggests at …
Month: March 2013
My Newest Is Out!
A Sportsman’s Library is out, available on Amazon and soon in bookstores. Buy many and often!
KIngdonia, old and New
Jonathan Kingdon’s magnum opus is coming. Here are a few images of JK and his past work:
Separated at Birth?
The Magdalena Owlman by Nina McCabe, and Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest…
The Crazy Cat Lobby
I have known environmental gadfly Ted Williams for well over 30 years, since Gray’s Sporting Journal was based in Brookline Mass. Ted was and is tough, sardonic, and not one to mince words– he was has never been inclined to cut anybody any slack, even friends. I am by no means in agreement with him …
Pungent quote…
From John Scalzi , (who is quite successful); ht Peculiar. “….But, these publishers and their defenders may say (and have said), the publisher takes all the risk in producing a book! Yeah? Hey, to publishers and their defenders who say that: Fuck you. Fuck you for asserting that the author has shouldered no risk, when …
Say it again, John
Dr John Burchard on “Oriental sighthounds” (and breeds in general): “I think we have to remember that the breed subdivisions within the “oriental sighthound” group are to some considerable extent a Western artifact which does not accurately reflect the reality on the ground. On the ground there are several regional populations, each with a considerable …
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
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…a step ahead of the banker, a moment behind convention, putting off heaven and hell as long as possible. –from Blood Writing, by Sean Sexton UPDATE: The poet sends his picture, in his Querencia, and a painting. I’d love to see that place. Meanwhile, get his book!