Patrick’s link in the comments below got broken but I think THIS may have been it. In my youth I once had a romance with a woman whom I initially impressed by telling her she reminded me of Emma Peel. Unfortunately the resemblance was only to her looks… And (on a linked subject?): what is …
Author: Steve Bodio
BirdBrain’s New Hood
Shunkar’s training continues well. He just got fine new hood from Ken Hooke. His is fairly conventional but Ken does an amazing range, including Asian styles.
Lost Kitty
Paul Domski mailed me this poster under the head of “Why City People Shouldn’t Move to the Country”:
Around the Web…
Busy, but there are so many good and horrific things to link to, on the Usual Suspects and more and worse… First, Asia. Look at this map from Strange Maps (courtesy of Rod) showing the “real”, ie Han, China as an island. All those places in the ocean to the north and west– Tibet, Xinjiang, …
THomas Disch: 1940- 2008
The poet, critic, and science fiction writer Thomas Disch died last week, a suicide. He was brilliant, unclassifiable, unemployable, and poor, despite having written some odd best sellers– the quintessential freelancer. He was facing eviction from his last home after the death of his long- time companion, and in bad health. He was still writing …
Update
After posting the link to Ruhlman on food below I went and caught up on the miles of quite wonderful comments. I like “fussy” pro Mike Pardus’s comment among many others (good for “writer” as well.) “Hi, y’all…….It’s nice to see that things settled down a bit since Michael posted my comments on initial post.For …
Things to come..
(To keep my nose to the grindstone…) Book reviews. EXCELLENT new book on why the Mega- Predators are ecologically vital. Science, new and rediscovered (hint: Leopold’s Kaibab redux.) “Whale killers.” Science as well as emotion, written not typed, and re- wilding too! More reviews: Evolution vs ID, Matthiessen’s Florida (still unfinished), Chinese wolf novel ditto. …
Links
According to this story in the Telegraph the most aggressive breed of dog is the dachshund. Lily would not be surprised– she is almost suicidally brave defending herself. Interestingly, Sir Terence Clark tells me that, while he was attending the Saluki Congress in Finland last week, a report was given that Germany has passed new …
Apologies
I seem to be doing this too much; that is, apologizing for lack of content. I think this (often) is an uneasily split- personality blog. Sometimes I am a link aggregator, sometimes a photo blogger; and sometimes I expose my own personality a bit. Trouble is, when I most “need” to do that is when …
NYT on NM Cockfighting
I am sorry, but I think this article on NM’s anti- cockfight crusade can be quoted to make its own argument against the ban. “After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing …