My new and most effective drug (may halt, if not reverse, Parkinson’s “progress”) is based on a synthetic Gila monster venom. Tim already has a poem for the ‘Venom Drug”, as everybody is naturally calling it: Hope is Our Word for Elpis Stephen is taking Gila monster venom to treat the brain disease I deeply …
Author: Steve Bodio
Our modern Mithridates cont.
… in the right amounts venom, especially neurotoxic venom, is good for you. Bill Haast of the Miami Serpentarium lived to be 101 after taking shots of venom every day. He never had a sick day in his life and survived 197 snakebites. He is a legend. I heard about Haast from my pen-friend and …
Venom 1 ; Mithridates (from A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad}
The volume used was Betsy’s ancient first edition.”Lad” has provided more titles than any other English work of art than The King Jame s version or Shakespeare, including many in Science Fiction. Reid? How about “For a breath I tarry”? I always thought his and Poul Anderson’s stoic world view had much in common There …
Goshawk
This will be one illo by Eldridge Hardie from a new collection of the works of North Dakota poet and hunter Tim Murphy. He and El gave it to me! I have been a fan of Eldridge’s work for at least as long as the old Gray’s that we both worked at existed. I brought …
Complicated Good News
The terrible thing about Parkinson’s is that it is a one-way ratchet. From the moment the first symptoms start, its advance is slow and relentless, from when you just have a little tremor or lurch and are just about normal. “Progress” has begun. When the slide starts the slope more steeply, you can no longer …
Maurice R. “Monty” Montgomery, 1938- 2017: RIP
My friend Monty was always a slightly elusive presence, even in his autobiographical sketch in Amazon, written by himself: “M. R. Montgomery, known to the various government record keepers as Maurice R. Montgomery Jr., and to all his acquaintances as Monty, was born in eastern Montana in 1938, raised partly in California, and now lives …
Courtship
From Arthur Wilderson: When you finally find the one If this confuses you, see this:
Good Company
Chris Waddington sent this photo of a friend’s Montana library where Querencia keeps good company…
Inevitable…
Greg McNamee sent this with the caption: “It was only a matter of time”, to which he added “Newly scraped from the north Phoenix desert…
Asian Hounds
Our friend Lane Bellman has just produced the first litter of Taigans, the high- altitude Kirgyz version of the Eastern sighthound, just north of here. Stay tuned… “The blood of the Eastern Dragon”: Vladimir Sghakula,, Kazakh Russian, dog breeder, refuge administrator’ biologist. and alleged war criminsal, who still prefers Mazar el Sharif , where …