I could publish a whole blog on that subject (as could Walter Hingley, who sends me many good ones, more than I have time to use). But then I could run one on books, or wildlife art or bird ancetsors or the Pleistocene– and have NO time… But some demand attention. I know, this short …
Author: Steve Bodio
Light Blogging…
Emerging from a ton of writing as future investment, near cripppled from time in chair. Need to do our spring outdoor chores– garden, pigeons … Back soon I hope.
Gratutous spring dog pix
Alex Schubert’s lovely Minoo tormenting cur Ayla and alone; Vladimir’s Bibigul (Nightingale) and laika Dinah; Tina Garfield’s 10 month old baby Anatolian Gunny, recently returned to Magdalena area after wintering on the Texas coast.
Big Guns
Like pigeons (which I will soon be writing about again) big bore shotguns are a constant recurring interest of mine shared by few contemporaries– those mostly coastal wildfowlers who used tens in the US, something I was at least born into. When it comes to Big Guns US shooting society tends to live in the …
Quote
“There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.” -James Salter
Poem
Troia Ruined Troy lay promiscuous among findspot and tell, breastworks and ditches Like nine gold bracelets at a Turkish wedding in twenty-two karats, mined outside Pergamum. Schliemann’s trench was a wound through the whole thing: at the Scaean Gate he was off by twelve hundred years, where the mourning doves sang compulsively, …
Drinkable…. MAUSER?
When I got to the last wrapping of an anonymous package last week, the outline of my last unfulfilled firearm desideratum appeared: the unmistakable profile of a ’96 Mauser “Broomhandle”. Could some anonymous admirer have sent me (illegally, but I wasn’t worried– it had passed inspection) the gun used by Winston Churchill in the “River …
Good concept
Thoughts on AR from the letter column of the Wall St Journal by one George Price. It will never happen of course. “If the animal rights who attack laboratories to “liberate” the animals… had the courage of their convictions, they would each carry a little card (like an organ- donor card) reading ‘If I am …
Christina’s Blog
Another post I have been kicking down the road: my friend Christina Nealson’s blog. I kept trying to think of original ways to describe her vivid writing and books, her nomadic life, her heterodox feminism and her support of the Second Amendment… Finally I thought: why not just let her describe her visit? Come back …
Pigeons vs Humaniacs
Chris Landauer of Border Wars sent me a note a couple of weeks ago on the ARista’s war on pigeon racing. Since then I have been roaming the Internet, too busy and too pissed off to to write a calm essay on the kind of people who would persecute old men, some of them who …