Borrowing a page from the 2Blowhards playbook, here’s a clip from YouTube, sent last night by my friend Jenn, formerly of St. Bernard Parish, which is just outside New Orleans. The musician is Grayson Capps, another local who had to leave the city. I wrote up a short review of a gig we caught before …
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Offline Chatter
And now for something completely different… With puzzled but indulgent permission from Steve, Reid and Patrick, I compiled a digest of some recent exchanges we shared offline and will post them here. It’s basically a round robin on canned hunts, our collapsing culture and kids these days. For those wanting to skip this discussion, I’ll …
That Toodlin’ Town!
Found this at the end of a story on recent security disruptions at US airports: “A United Airlines flight out of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport was delayed because a small boy said something inappropriate, according to a government official speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.” Jeeeesh—first goose livers and …
Oarfish
Steve had apparently heard of these amazing creatures, but I certainly hadn’t until I saw this article in the LA Times. They are likely the source of many sea-serpent sightings.
Late pics
Readers: Please check below for some “new” material from the 26th forward. Several posts have been hidden in draft mode until we got the pictures inserted.
What Matt’s Reading
(Occasional Series Alert!) No doubt Steve will give Reid a run for his money on the list of books he’s currently reading. As usual, I’m reading just the one. This week it’s Annie Dillard’s wonderful memoir An American Childhood. Herein Dillard charts the start of an arc, the life of a lucky girl from Pittsburgh …
Struck with Consequence
I re-read Steve’s essay of this name last night. It’s the opening piece from On The Edge of the Wild: Passions and Pleasures of a Naturalist, and it frames out a basic distinction between the New and the Old in the world, and the kinds of people dwelling in each: “The old people, the old …
Book Review
American Working TerriersBy Patrick Burns272 pages in soft cover with b/w photographs$35.14 from http://www.lulu.com/pburnsIf you travel much along the back roads of the Mid-Atlantic States, along hedgerows and small farms or woodlots, you might spot a digger and his dogs. He’d be a quiet figure in workman’s clothes, walking beneath a load of tools. His …
Cougars, Science and “Sport Hunting”
Steve and Reid could each provide good commentary here, but with their indulgence, I’ll take first dibs. Reuters carried this story earlier in the week, reporting the release of a study finding no evidence for the notion that hunting cougars reduces the incidence of cougar attacks on people or livestock. Given only that information, I …
Preserving Traditions
Reid sent this recent feature by Russ Parsons at L.A. Times on a California peach farmer who boasts a cult following among the foodies: “‘Mas’ Masumoto, a short, square 52-year-old with a quick smile and work-hardened hands, is probably the most famous fruit farmer in America.” “…Over the years, Masumoto has become a charismatic public …