…is what Tom Russell calls Montana poet, sometime cowboy, and hard- core writer Paul Zarzyski Recently Tom sent me Zarzyski’s 51–“30 poems, 20 lyrics, 1 Self- Interview”, and it is the best “Western” book and the best “Writing” book I have read in an age. Paul is often lumped with the Cowboy Poets and has …
Author: Steve Bodio
Real Zoo #5: Squirrelly
From Other Steve: Every Spring, children living near the zoo would come in with baby squirrels that they had “found.” Chances are, they had been found after the children had knocked them out of their nests, but, each year, we’d take them in and the girls who made up the diets in the kitchen would …
Hans
I just got word that my friend Hans Windgassen, artist and pigeon man, died in Pennsylvania this week. I knew he had been having heart trouble lately but he passed it off to me as not very serious. Born in Germany, he lived and taught in Pennsylvania for many years. Although we could argue about …
Real Zoo # 4
Me on “My Scars”, or “Julian’s Dogs”. It was said that at a reunion (that none of us attended) that there was a scar show. Mine, at least the ones I still have all these years later, are not from the wolf or the alligators or even the otters or the gibbon who TRIED. “I …
Real Zoo # 3
Other Steve on the two baby black leopards, and television. (I– Steve B– found the cubs, still very small when Annie first introduced them to me, rather intimidating, unlike the much bigger but almost doglike, playful young tiger. They weren’t so much malevolent as little forces of nature, like animated thorn bushes who BIT. Hard. …
Real Zoo #2: Volunteer’s First Day
My old zoo group has responded so enthusiastically that I have enough material to fill the blog with nothing else for a while. I will restrain myself, but at least start with some of this irresistible material from Other Steve, who last gave us The Law, and a bit from me about what animal I …
Steve’s Law: Tales From the Real Zoo # 1
Far Away and VERY Long Ago, in a zoo on a most distant coast, a bunch of young people worked in a big(gish) municipal zoo. Annie D, who introduced me to Betsy of Querencia (who volunteered there, but I didn’t know her then), and who often comments here, was one, and I was another. We …
Commonplace Book/ Quote of the Day
Nunc post scripsi totum pro Christo da mihi potum! (Now I have written everything… For Christ’s sake give me a drink!) Amen!
“The painful results of atlatl violence…”
Reid sent this excellent link to Atlatl art, but one combination of art and caption was too irresistible NOT to reproduce. Read The Whole Thing. The painful results of atlatl violence:
Thanks!
Busy– just finished an assignment for Shooting Sportsman, starting two pieces on spec for Double Gun Journal, taking notes for my forthcoming Living Bird review, reading galleys of Pete Dunne’s new installment in his seasonal birding series, Arctic Autumn (outspokenly pro- hunting, among other virtues, and yes, he gets a blurb!)… But need to thank …