Darren has been posting a series of utterly weird and alien cetacean skulls. Try here and here and especially here for my favorites, but they are all wonderful. He also weighs in on the “Montauk Monster”. Despite the hysteria I though it was a canid; he convinces me that it is likely another small carnivore. …
Author: Steve Bodio
And Thanks To…
Randy Edmond in Casa Grande, for the Steve Stirling novel and the Emmylou CD.
Blogger and Boletes
Last weekend we went looking for Boletus edulis in the San Mateos southwest of here. It was an amazingly bloggish crew– us, MDMNM and Miss A., Mrs. Peculiar who also blogs as The Pumpkin King (Mr. P. is guiding in the Grand Canyon); and non- blogger saluki fan, artist, architect, and polymath Daniela Imre, another …
Enjoyable/ Interesting Links
Prarie Mary sent me pics of a white eagle picked up in Colorado, and now Carel Brest Van Kempen has has blogged it, along with other white raptors. Some feather whiteness appears to be deleterious– it might not be a good idea to release it again. The fearless Annie D. somehow found these amazing octopus …
“About Me”
Matt sometimes does searches that wouldn’t occur to me, and last week sent two reviews of Querencia the book from two excellent blogs. First is from Terrie Miller in California, who also sent me the wonderful Bouchon cookbook. She writes in part: “To many of us, the love of wildlife seems directly opposed to the …
Food Links
Chas sent this rather odd Wired link on eating pigeons. Why odd? I’d say the tone of disbelief and humorous near disgust: “When you look at a pigeon, you might see a dirty, rat-like bird that fouls anything it touches with feathers or feces, but I see a waste-scavenging, protein-generating biomachine.” (Big snip) “But as …
Around the Web…
Back from a great weekend of wildlife watching, mushroom hunting, and eating and drinking with bloggers- more below (Or rather, above). But first let me catch up with the news, serious, unserious, amusing and distressing… On our perrenial concern, AR, anti hunters and so on: the LAT does a fawning profile of Wayne Pacelle. Apart …
Thanks to…
Terrie Miller, for Keller’s Bouchon cookbook, and Mike for Walter Jon Williams’ new novel. Reviews and food photos forthcoming… And Terrie, we’d be happy to take you hawking.
AB 1634
Cute but concise: a “saluki” opposes mandatory spay- neuter in California.
Trinity
Stingray has an un- PC post on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb here. I wrote to him: “Slightly irrelevant tale: I was at the site (October opening I think) and some hippies had set up an altar with a Shiva figurine on it (“I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds”.) “A ranchy- type …