From John Wilson: “We got out to B. W. Cox’s sawmill. I had a chance to chat with Mr. Cox (he did not like being called Mr. Cox). What an interesting guy. “The two guys working the mill were filled with interesting information as well. Guillermo has been around here for over thirty years. Javier …
Month: March 2013
How to Wrap Pigeons
From Bletchley Park and Bruce Douglas: How to Wrap Carrier Pigeons for Dropping from Aircraft:
Saint Patrick’s Day, Golden Spur
The Usual Suspects, in full Western- Irish- Rock & Country party mode. I have known John Paul Jones Apachito, aka Paul Jones and PJ, for thirty years, and never known he was Irish– maybe Mongolian, certainly Alamo Navajo, but not Irish. But then the handsome young cowboy with Libby, our handyman of all trades Tyler …
Back again!
I have been neglecting the blog lately, for several reasons: mainly a sudden editorial job, which may result in my having three books with my name on them in a calendar year; far too much social life, with only the Spur Saint Patrick’s Day party planned; and an increasing amount of unanswered correspondence. I have …
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There’ll be no editing. This book was dictated by the Holy Ghost. – Jack Kerouac, upon being told his manuscript of On the Road (typed onto a 120 ft. roll of teletype paper) would need to be cut into pages for editing.
More Pleistocene Pictures
I figured I’d post a few more pictures from the “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age” exhibit for all you friends of the Pleistocene. Here’s a different view of the mammoth model. We noticed lots of people wanted to pose for pictures standing right under the mammoth’s tail. Here’s a head-on view of the …
Dan Baum sticks to his guns…
… in this excellent interview in Atlantic (pun absolutely intended). Maybe they thought he would back down; because of the current climate, because– I don’t know, he hadn’t spent many years coming to his conclusions? No fear: “I’m no less a Democrat than I was, but I am more attuned to the gun guy complaint …
Zoo Eli
Three generations of us went to the Albuquerque Zoo on my birthday to see hot snakes, relict megafauna, and other biophilic entertainments. Mr Eli wanted to swim with the ducks, seals, and most alarmingly hippos. I enjoyed the herps more myself, and the mixed flock of wild migrant ducks including the irritatingly named “Ring necked”, …
Giant Vampire Bat
…and while we are on the Pleistocene, why not a giant prehistoric Southwestern vampire bat that preyed on the megafauna? From Randy Babb’s drawing in Dave Brown’s Vampiro, for Dr Hypercube (the paperweight is a bronze nighthawk with hidden eggs by Steve Kestrel):
“Homotherium is perhaps my favorite felid…”
… says Nathaniel below. I agreed, then laughed at the oddity of a blog where readers could make that statement with a straight face, though there are a couple of others on the blogroll… Here is my favorite image of Homotherium serum, a frightening predator, in life bigger than an African lion and possibly cursorial …