Inevitable…

Greg McNamee sent this with the caption: “It was only a matter of time”, to which he added “Newly scraped from the north Phoenix desert…

Asian Hounds

Our friend Lane Bellman has just produced the first litter of Taigans, the high- altitude Kirgyz version of the Eastern sighthound, just north of here. Stay tuned…   “The blood of the  Eastern Dragon”: Vladimir Sghakula,, Kazakh Russian, dog breeder, refuge administrator’ biologist. and alleged war criminsal, who still prefers Mazar el Sharif , where …

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Hemingway’s Guns– new edition

Silvio Calabi and Co. hav come out with a new ed of the already- good Hemingways’s Guns that adds the Cuban guns from the Finca Vigia (a uniformly ruined unshootable lot BTW) to the already good scholarship of the first volume. Two things are  particularly notable. First, most American rich folks back then shot good …

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New Tom

Tom Russell’s new album is about leaving his home in El Paso and moving to Santa Fe. Among other things, they were about to surround his rural home in the Valley with a subdivision…

Old Travels

Found this image of our Kazakh guide Hagay at the Tamgaly petroglyph site, a World Heritage site but one that at the time that had supposedly been visited by only six westerners, two of them us. Central Asian T Shirts are even weirder than Japanese ones…

Good news coming!

Despite continuing difficulties with my health, a visit to Santa Fe and a small bequest turned a lot of things around. I may soon have working dictation software (if such a thing is possible!} and a working laptop. I have sold several articles. There is even a glimmer of hope on health, as I strive …

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