This one came in over the LSU weekly news wire. For those who don’t follow much in Louisiana, we just elected Bobby Jindal, our youngest-ever governor (younger than me, even—egads!), a conservative Rebublican, SAOVA endorsed, Baton Rouge native and son of Indian immigrants, among a long list of other interesting and commonly-cited labels. This story, …
Author: Matt Mullenix
The void, two views
Helen recently drew readers’ attention to a startling (maybe terrifying) essay on what it means to live in Los Angeles by Geoff Manaugh, writing at BLDGBLOG. Helen quotes the opening passage at plenty length to give the gist. But read the whole thing here. It’s very good. What do I know about Los Angeles? Not …
Hunting and Alligators
I meant to comment a while back on Patrick’s post here, in which he considers the difference in fatal alligator attacks on people in Florida (a small number) with that figure in Louisiana (none). What’s up with Florida? Patrick says: Perhaps such attacks are not too surprising in a state that has an alligator population …
Science Proves Keen Interest in Animals “Vestigial”
Well, not really. But a conclusion to that effect was drawn from research published recently in the (online) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. From the story by Jeanna Bryner of LiveScience.com: The research…reveals that humans today are hard-wired to pay attention to other people and animals much more so than non-living things, even …
Constitution Day in the U.S.
A copy of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, presented for your browsing pleasure on this day celebrating what it means, or might mean, or what some once might have meant for it to mean to be an American. Print it out; it’s yours to keep.
Season Opener
In the absence of cool weather or fall color, two things define the change of seasons in this part of the world: football and dove hunting. The LSU Tigers won their season opener against Mississippi State in at 45-0 rout, which, best of all, occurred on a Thursday and left the long Labor Day weekend …
New Dawg, Part Deux
Travelling duo Dan Gauss & Margaret Fairman own and operate Shot On Sight Photography, a provider of fantastic images of performance sighthounds and regulars on the lure coursing and OFC circuits. Dan and Margaret are obligate, itinerant RV enthusiasts and bone-deep longdog people, pursuing their dreams. You can follow their travels at http://shotonsite.blogspot.com/, where you’ll …
Shrimping on Horseback?
I’d never heard of it either. But Belgium is famous for more than ale. Evidently the country boasts a remnant horseback shrimping culture. “Men in bright yellow overalls and sou’-westers ride their plodding workhorses across the sands into the North Sea at low tide to trawl for shrimps in just the way that their forefathers …
New Dawg
Our friend Henry Chappell over at Home Range writes a good story about getting his new pup: a field-bred (ain’t no other kind) mountain cur. She’s a cutie. Incidentally, I’m always impressed by blog posts with dialog. “You don’t say?” I do. Chappell blogs like a writer of quality print features, which he is. There’s …
Said Spider to the Hummingbird
While it is a documented fact that everything is larger in Texas, some things in neighboring Louisiana are also large. For example, take the Golden Silk Spider. Picking up my new hawk from his breeder a few weeks ago, I spotted one sitting in her characteristically large web strung between two hawk rearing pens. These …