We knew there was a second, a female, around. Yesterday she showed up, big as life (or bigger– at 16’9 oz she was the biggest Coop I ever weighed). Luckily she was quick to catch, by one toe and a primary feather, though she somehow got them on two sides of a beanpole! Phone cam …
Month: November 2016
Murderer Captured, Tried, and Sentenced to Transportation…
We caught the male Coop today. But not before he killed ANOTHER pigeon, an incoming homer who had just come in from a Socorro training run– what a welcome. He killed her right beside the “Bal chatri” trap I had set on the ground in the garden– I thought he was caught, but he flew …
Writerly quote
From Samuel Beckett, sent by Tom McIntyre, and all too true: “I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance…Now my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, “It’s a lie!” So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I ever …
Leonard Cohen 1934- 2017 RIP
I first saw Leonard Cohen play at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Joni Mitchell, in an orange striped mini-dress, led him out.He looked like a rabbinical student. He played ‘Suzanne’ as I remember, and I vowed to buy it as soon as it was out. I have bought virtually everything he has done. I …
Recovering
Libby is doing well, although the broken rib really hurts when she she coughs, and she is going to a dentist today to plan tooth repair. To certain complainers: I did not publish unattractive pics of Lib without her permission; I did ask, before I took the photos, and she gave it gladly, in the …
Quote
Lane Batot sent in this quote from “that clever ‘Anonymous’ person”: “Pedigree indicates what the animal is supposed to be; Conformation indicates what the animal appears to be; Function indicates what the animal actually is.”
Maxim
Jameson Parker wrote: “Dear Libby, “After I fell off a ladder several years ago, a friend tossed off the following very wise if unsympathetic observation:’No one over the age of sixty should be allowed to even own a ladder.’ “
Pepe’s Art
My old pigeon partner Jose Morales y Serranno, who met his wife , an Albuquerqe native of Italian descent, returned to Sevilla after getting his PhD in English- speaking writers of the Spanish Civil War. Despite occasional political disagreements- like Pepe’s fellow traveler on the left Stephen Spender, I will never think of Roy Campbell …
Slow recovery
Libby’s mood is better than her face, or her ribs…
Art Show and Catalogue
“Our” art show opened in Memphis this week and by all accounts is a total success. How could it not be with walls like these? And especially paintings like this: !Here is the book, with my contribution. Buy it, you won’t regret it! Thanks especially to the perfect editor and curator, Kevin Sharp; to Toby …