Eli’s Baptism in Santa Fe two weekends ago. With this and a Tom Russell concert and deadlines and trying to get Momo going and editing– BUSY!Eli and doting grandma:Niki and Eli, Jack too…The ceremony, us behind:Lib with Jenny French, one of my oldest friends in duration if not age, beaming on what she calls the …
Author: Steve Bodio
Sporting Miscellany
As the Peculiars are here with grandbaby Eli I shall continue my slackerish blog- sloth for a bit more, but I have harvested a number of cool images to share. So with no further ado: Colonel Charles Askins was a more ambiguous character than the other Golden Age gunwriters; he once described himself as a …
Running Dogs
Herb Wells of Alpaugh CA takes the most amazing photos of coursing dogs I have ever seen- probably that anyone has. A couple of sets here. The first three pics demonstrate the incredible and totally normal hyperextension and flexing of a running dog’s first joints (third is also one of out own breeding, Daniela’s Shunkar). …
Lame excuses and photo posts
Apparently finishing the eagle book meant MORE work- I have totally reorganized the library and am organizing book selling, wood heating, the next book, and getting Momo aloft. Which leaves precious little time to blog (yet). But on the principle that everybody likes bookshelves pix here are a few shots of the “new” library. I …
Hot Links
The LA Times proclaims the cactus pear is the Rodney Dangerfield of the fruit world. Well, people don’t mind all the seeds in watermelon, do they? Someone tries to rob the wrong pizza delivery man in Memphis. Someone tries to rob the wrong motel in Los Angeles. Researchers find evidence of prostate cancer in an …
Poem
In A Large Greek Colony, 200 BC That things in the Colony are not what they should beno one can doubt any longer,and though in spite of everything we do go forward,maybe—as more than a few believe—the time has cometo bring in a Political Reformer. But here’s the problem, here’s the hitch:they make a tremendous …
Nash’s Chill and Liver Tonic
Several of my great-plus grandfathers made a very good living manufacturing patent medicines in the South from the 1870s – 1930s. Their best known product was Nash’s Chill and Liver Tonic, which was a big seller in an era when that part of the country was still plagued with yellow fever and malaria. I have …
Sign in My Neighborhood
In the Land of No News
If you are looking for a reason to be cranky, check out this snotty, condescending, know-it-all explanatorium about us benighted prairie-dwellers lost in flyover country that was vomited up in the NYRB blog section. The comments are a kick, too. Dissect at your leisure.
Wild East
Here are a few irresistible photos from Lib’s friend Jeff Foott, who we saw in Wyoming and who just returned from our old haunts in Western Mongolia. The third is just nice and speaks for itself. What I love about the other two is the way the Wild East partakes of all technologies from the …