Peculiar has called me out on the New Mexico Barbie meme: what is Catron (Cabron, Cartoon) County Barbie like? Catron County is a strange one in our strange state– I have good friends there (next county over from me) who would be unbelievable in fiction. It is high and cold and mountainous, contains a few …
Author: Steve Bodio
More Dog Control (and related misunderstandings)
Dog owners in Toronto are no longer allowed to walk bitches in heat or any unaltered males in parks, period, full stop. Canadian saluki breeder Maril Semph sent text from a friend but no link: “Effective February 01 2008 Toronto did ban all intact male dogs and females in season, not just from off-leash dog …
New Links
Blogging will continue to be a bit light as I am busy, am trying to get outside, and have Chas and Miss M coming tomorrow. But the world keeps producing the fascinating and the maddening… Science fiction giant Arthur Clarke died this week. John Derbyshire has a good quirky remembrance of him here. I think …
Sustainable?
I am not quite sure what I think about the increasing faddishness of some aspects of the local food thing. I appreciate the effort but there are things that disturb me about this New York Times piece on the “new farmers”. Can you trust anything that begins with the (built- in ironic) lead: “The Carhartts …
Food Stuff
Acouple of weeks ago there was what blogs tend to call a “kerfuffle” over English food writer Delia Smith’s calling for using canned and other not- so- natural ingerdients. Thye controversy continues. Reader and commentor R Francis directed me to this hilarious article at the Guardian where a panel of chefs eat a dinner based …
New Mexico Barbies
This is almost too “inside”, both bloggish and totally of New Mexico– but too funny to ignore. Stingray at Atomic Nerds has taken my challenge over at Nature Blog to add a Los Alamos Barbie to the already excellent collection of New Mexico Barbies there. Here is an excerpt. “..Los Alamos Barbie often comes with …
Art of the Week
When Dan Gauss visited us, he remarked on how much art we have . Often, art becomes invisible through familiarity. Also, we have a lot that doesn’t even get hung- some we can’t afford to frame, others that just don’t fit on the walls of a four- room house. So I am going to start …
Ink
Stingray has a post at the always- excellent Atomic Nerds, on tattoos and their changing (?) cultural significance: “…When LabRat and I went to purchase our current truck, we did what most antisocial nerds do and researched the bejesus out of every option available and every configuration, and based on MSRPs made a short list …
Goshawks DO Play!
Gos and his toy.
Unspeakable Allies
ANOTHER “You Can’t Make It Up” moment: Ingrid “Holocaust on your plate” and “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” Newkirk has bonded with “Hang ’em if they won’t fight” dogfighter Michael Vick. “Vick, demonized by PETA for more than a year, could become the bridge in this divide. Newkirk struck …