I usually stay out of the journalistic mainstream in favor of things that interest me. But given all the noise about blogs vs Mainstream media lately, this is utterly irresistible. This morning, Libby, wandering around the web in search of news, came upon this story in the Australian. It begins: “WASHINGTON: George W. Bush sent …
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New Year’s Bleg
(That is, a Blogger’s beg).. Do any of my readers have or know of a “Baby Bretton” French over- and- under shotgun that I could borrow, shoot, and photograph for a series of articles on French shotgun design? They are rare in the States and I have never even seen one. Like many French inventions …
‘The Goshawk’ Redux
Poet and all- round brilliant writer Pluvialis has been given a Finnish Goshawk. She is thinking of retreating somewhere and writing a book on its training, a meditation, a look at T. H. White, who wrote the original book of that title during another dark and chaotic time. As White said: “These efforts might have …
Pupdate
Just a couple of pics of the dogs now known collectively as the BabyGirls– fuzzy Larissa, who looks a bit Afghani in her winter coat, and big shy Roza, with her brindle forehead.
One Purely Silly One..
Just before I got ill we were shopping in Albuquerque. We were in the checkout line at the Asian market when I spotted this can: That’s right: a soft drink made from the nest of Asian swiftlets. I don’t know if you can read the list of ingredients below: But they include, in order: “Water, …
Working Wolf Dogs
It is the common wisdom that wolf- dog hybrids are spooky creatures, alternately shy and aggressive, that do not make good working dogs. So it is with fascination that I bring you this report from a friend, cynologist Vladimir Beregovoy, about a correspondent of his in Russia. “I wanted to share with you a few …
I’m Baaaack! (2)
Coughing, hacking, but a hell of a lot better than a week ago, I return. I saved a lot– way too many– links for you despite the fact I couldn’t spend much time in my Blogger seat– physical visitors may recall it is a long way from the woodstove or the bedroom. So I think …
Once more around the web
Still busy, but reading… Terrierman shows us that despite hysteria, Lyme disease is hard to catch. Gun Nut Dave Petzal reminds us that “outmoded” equipment often– isn’t. Good firearms and optics should outlive their owner– I shoot one shotgun made in the (18)70’s. Has Hell frozen over? Peter Singer gives support to animal medical experimentation! …
Once more around the web
I just finished an article on Turkish pigeons for the excellent online pigeon mag Aviphilia and am getting caught up,so will I hope soon return to real blogging. Meanwhile, a roundup of things serious and trivial.. At Three Martini Lunch, Roseannn– between recipes!– has just posted on her recent diagnosis with breast cancer. That such …
Rock Art Convergence
A while back Steve and I posted on some common features that we had seen with regard to representations of shamanism in rock art. I shared pictures from Little Petroglyph Canyon in Inyo County, California, and Steve showed his from the site of Tamgaly outside of Almaty in Kazakhstan. Steve sent me this picture of …