The first from Jackson Frishman; the second from the ubiquitous New Yorker, source of all our refrigerator art.
Author: Steve Bodio
Lucky friends
Daniel Riviera and Carlos Martinez del Rio horse trekking in the Andes.
New Vadim & Joseph Crawhall
No GOOD old dog is too old to learn good old tricks. The latest pics in Vadim Corbatov’s Russian site () include this farm scene renminiscent of the work of the dissolute short- lived English painter Joseph Crawhall, who illustrated Abel Chapman in the manner of “the painters of the caves”, according to Don Robero …
Bad news for Tim
About a month ago, Tim Murphy, de facto poet laureate of North Dakota if not of the entire west, sent me this poem teasing me for not going hunting with him this year. Before I reply or even make a wisecrack, I got the following: “Dear Hunting Buddies, I have Stage IV cancer in my …
The “Mother of Dragons” gets her tattoo
Lauren’s amazing ink:
Mass Saiga die- off
Two thirds of the population of the Saiga, a Central Asian Antelope, died almost simultaneously. The event was somewhere in seriousness between the Indian vulture crisis and the death of the passenger pigeon. Turns out it was a seemingly benign combination of humidity and a previously harmless microbe. A harbinger of things to come? Thanks …
Why I like the “Plain Gun”.
The seriously flawed first edition of Good Guns, rife with errors and badly illustrated by me, i(s a …perhaps justifiably… rare book. But it does contain a line drawing of the Platonic ideal of a boxlock gun, and despite the pernicious French influence, as seen in the exaggeratedly curved”shadbelly” stock, it looks a lot like …
Eulogy
My wonderful sister Anita’s eulogy for Mary. I would not change a word. “If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”- John Greenleaf Whittier This quote by John Greenleaf Whittier was my mother’s favorite and …
” I ain’t dead yet!”
I cant help but think the cowboy defiance is a little forced- but here are Libby and me at the Bar last night to celebrate her 71’st, Parkinson’s, broken teeth, and all.
A few Tributes to Mary
From Margory Cohen: “dear Steve – Thoughts with you. When my Ma died, I felt it in my skin. I still do – They stay with us, they’re in us. And we remember – and that’s the best tribute. Being remembered. Please take care of you. Annie Davidson: I was sorry to read your mother …