I apologize for my lack of new posts lately. I am still not completely recovered from not having my meds for ten days and our computers have been misbehaving: the keyboard on the MacBook refuses to type several letters, and the email on the iMac duplicates itself at the server end, sometimes more than 75 …
Month: November 2021
Cloudscape
“Riders of the Coyote Moon” 24 x 30 in Mark Maggiori I never heard of him before. He seems to have made a career out of these cloudscape pix. I like moon scenes but there is lots of artistic license in it. He is an imitator of others but that is nothing new in art.
The Horde
Why do Genghis Khan and nomads, more generally, so deeply upset the supporters of nation-states? First, the history of the Mongol Empire is a shared legacy that does not fit into narratives centred on monolingual, monoethnic and monoreligious communities. Second, nationalists have yet to accept that civilization is not necessarily a product of urban and …
Bird of Prey Shoes
Bird of Prey Shoes
Organic Sculpture
This outstanding British Columbia muley buck showed up, last night, and as a connoisseur of antlers I was impressed. The color, the mass, the character are all there. It will not score high on the B&C scale but as the hunter says who wouldn’t be happy with it. I think it was Chuck Arnold, an …
A Bit of Rain Monday. 80 mm+ (3.3 inches)
“If anyone has pictures or video of flooding or road washouts around Ingonish and Neil’s Harbour, please share. Serious situation there right now. Some communities may be cutoff. Rain totals as of 6:23pm. 208.8 mm and counting at Ingonish River. We still have another 24+ hours of rain on the way.“ We got some here …
Genetic research helps rainbow trout rebound in CO
In Colorado’s rivers, genetic research helps rainbow trout rebound Some good news. I knew they had big problems out there 20 years ago but had not heard much since.
Jean Louis Lassez: portraits of hospitality
Catherine & JL, May ’68 “Vivre sans temps mort!”— the last of the Situationists! Catherine & Lib Muleshoe. First, the ranch: Muleshoe headquarters/Lassez’ house Unloading guns Holiday crowdCatherine & Libby again A Yale med school grad and a guy retired from running an Ohio Audubon refuge (Vince DiMarco , the late Pepe, and John Wilson). …
Jean Louis Lassez — RIP
My friend Jean Louis Lassez died last week at his Muleshoe Ranch, after a long illness .In the usual course of things I would have known he was not doing well; we were close despite our seemingly disparate backgrounds. Or maybe not so disparate—we were both Catholic school kids, ambivalent about ‘Old Mother Church’, but …
“Dystopian Science Fiction”?
When Malcolm Boyd (Painted Horses, Cloudmaker) saw the article ” All You Can Read” by Parul Sehgal in the November 1 New Yorker , his reaction was “It reads like dystopian science fiction!” Further: ” .., the book ( his recent Cloudmaker)did not garner a single meaningful review in any significant outlet, nor did Grove …