You are going to have to search hard for worse. Tom McIntyre sends this masterpiece of po- mo ignorance from National Geographic’s Explorer- in residence (“Isn’t that an oxymoron?”), one Derek Joubert: “Hunting will one day be relegated to the category of awful things we did as humans, alongside apartheid and the Holocaust.” If you …
Month: April 2014
He is not an intellectual…
…and neither am I. On About last Night, Terry Teachout, possibly the most wide- ranging American critic and cultural writer, explains: “I incline as a rule to the mode of thought and feeling implied by T.S. Eliot’s remark that Henry James had “a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.” All history, especially …
Eagle Dreamers
I must assume that ALL my readers have seen some version of this: I have gotten over 100 emails, and they are still coming in. The one most saw was a BBC article (see David Zincavage’s blog), but I like the photographer’s, and his background info. It seems that the wild men of central Asia, …
Frustration
I have tons of material– John Wilson on sending some Mexican wolves to Mexico, with pics; all manner of current events; books to review (Paula Young Lee’s delightful Deer Hunting in Paris is way overdue); more poets to quote– Zarzyski!); foodbloggiing, imminent novels by friends, gyr coming…. And all I seem to do is catchup …
High- grade doggage
From Dan Gauss, granddog H1lda (not a typo) after jack.
Q Cover Redux
In the home stretch on the new edition of Q. For the cover, I still favor some variety of this photo (forgive quality of my amateur efforts; I am sure a designer could do wonders with my template). The publisher favors the old cover. Any last thoughts? Here are the mockups I attempted. The old …
Stupid Science Questions
These sorts of things can be really sappy, but I often find I get sucked in and can’t help enjoying them. Examples: How did the thesaurus survive the dinosaur extinction? We’ve long known the speed of light, but what is the speed of heavy? My neighbor said he’s an “acidic Jew”. Are there basic Jews? …
Poetry
From Larry Gavin’s new collection The Initiation of Praise: My Reader My reader is part of a small club like those who fancy terriers and the taking of game to ground. My reader stumbled on this book by accident because of a mistransposed order number or an absent minded librarian that was thinking about fishing …
Farming Makes You Weak
I know I’ve mentioned a number of times here, that as prehistoric peoples moved from a hunting-gathering economy to agriculture, in general their health declined. This was apparently due to a number of factors, including eating a more limited diet, living for long periods in one place increases the spread of disease, etc. I just …
More Ivanpah
A few days ago I posted about seeing the Ivanpah solar plant from the air. A commenter mentioned that it was killing lots of birds. I just saw in the Palm Springs newspaper that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a report calling it a “mega-trap” killing birds. This picture is of a …