From Larry McMurtry: “The reader might well ask why this account of the expanding and contracting of my various libraries matters at all. “I could give several answers to the question but the simplest one is that you write what you’ve read, to a large degree– and, just as importantly, you write what you will …
Author: Steve Bodio
Two rather biological quotes
From William Hamilton, the eccentric genius whose new biography is on the way, and from our old neighbor David Quammen, who chronicled Bill’s demise from the complications of malaria meds in his Spillover, review on deck at last… Hamilton, from volume 3 of his collected works: “For me it seems that the universe only needs …
Returning with links and quotes
Busy, busy, busy, with lots of work and lots and lots of visitors– great stuff except exhaustion makes me sleepless and “Parky”. Lots of links, many quotes, news (the biggest for me: negotiating to reprint 5 backlist books including Eagle Dreams!) Sportsman’s Library out and getting praise, and new book prospects getting more likely, with …
Who really runs our household
Ataika, of course. Here, two rearrangements of our furniture to fit her whims. Happy Easter!
Predator
Our last winter predator is an adult male Coopers hawk in beautiful plumage, and despite my admiration for his kind I hope he moves on to nest– I don’t relish keeping my pigeons in for very long. He allowed me to get even closer, but this was the best I could do; the photo is …
Another Quote
From Sean Sexton’s Blood Writing, attributed to “Anon.”, in a small seafood restaurant in the Yucatan: Ama la vida a la frontala, porque buena y mala, sola tenemos una. (Love life and face it, because good or bad, we have only one)
Krazy Kats continued
(I just could’t continue with the K’s)… David Petersen is a bowhunter and a good writer; I think of him as an old shaman of the antler totem, and he has just received an award from the Back Country Hunters and Anglers. Here he is with a fine bull elk. But he is not …
Les Line
The material below got me thinking about the late great Les Line, who edited Audubon mag from 1966 to 1991. I reminisced to a younger friend: “Les Line: only genuine mag editor genius I ever knew- never met Pat Ryan– light when he weighed 250 pounds, walrus mustache, long hair, turquoise on a bolo tie– …
What do people in the anti- gun media…
… think of us? Not much, apparently… A few quotes: “Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” asserted that gun rights advocates aren’t “normal people,” they have no “other interests,” and they are uninterested in their wives or kids…” “The Post’s Gene Weingarten in 2011 spat on the Second Amendment as “the refuge of bumpkins and …
Cowboy Wedding, with occasional gun
We went to the outdoor wedding of Jake Stamper and Eva Trujillo last week. Nothing says western like people doing show and tell with their guns in the parking lot at a wedding. My hunting partner, Piet Ditmars, and his wife, Jessica Abberly , admiring a CZ Bobwhite .410. Consensus among knowledgeable friends suggests at …