From a review in the New Yorker for 27 August: “Buying a car, Grescoe writes “is the beginning of a spiral through selfishness, road rage, and anomie, one whose ultimate goal is the mall or the gated community”. Unless you, you know, live in the country. Do our coastal elites even “get” Upstate New York? …
Author: Steve Bodio
Maybe…
Looking at one of these…
Spanish Pigeon Sport!
La Suelta: a female with a marked feather is turned out with a pack of gaudily- painted males, flying pouters of the “Modern Deportivo” breed, who are… a bit hyper- macho; examples below. The one who seduces her home wins- it takes days. Big money prizes, state involvement– Suelta madness!
Pigeon Art
More from Jose Morales y Serrano: Nude Woman with English Carrier:
“Lost” Gruber review…
Before Q Blog, I had a website, which vanished. I regretted the loss of only one piece, an essay and review of a work by Michael Gruber. Recently, reading him at his excellent website (link above) and commenting on him, I found a printed copy, which I will print here. Not only does it point …
Invincible Ignorance?
I hate to rant but (I can see everybody believes THAT)… Well, first Reid provoked me with this, knowing that it was like poking a stick at a hot rattlesnake. At first I just sputtered. “I can’t even debunk this– it is like Mary McCarthy’s famous remark on Lilian Hellman: “Every word she says is …
What “Exotics”…
… did Dr. John Burchard keep? He writes: “The ‘exotics’ I myself have kept at one time or another include a wolf, coatis, corvids large and small, raptors from sparrowhawk and merlin up to and including Gyrfalcon, Goshawk and Golden Eagle (the latter quite capable of killing someone, especially a child), boa constrictors up to …
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“In Britain, an editor will permit a writer to make an allusion if he, the editor, understands it. In America, an editor might well understand it but he will want it taken out, for fear the readers won’t”.– Clive James in the Atlantic ???
A face for Lane…
It is dated– from the 90’s– and he informs me he rarely wears a hat. But this is the best photo I have of Lane Batot and one of his many dogs, on a drizzly day atop one of his backyard mountains…
Even Odder Riding Rhyme
I posted on my childhood “trotting rhyme” from the Piedmont earlier, but Peculiar found a modern one that is… well, merely descriptive words fail. It is about riding on a Tardigrade, the enigmatic microscopic beastie also known as a “water bear”. I want a bonny tardigrade to serve me for a steed. I’d harness him …