Silvio Calabi and Co. hav come out with a new ed of the already- good Hemingways’s Guns that adds the Cuban guns from the Finca Vigia (a uniformly ruined unshootable lot BTW) to the already good scholarship of the first volume. Two things are particularly notable. First, most American rich folks back then shot good …
Author: Steve Bodio
New Tom
Tom Russell’s new album is about leaving his home in El Paso and moving to Santa Fe. Among other things, they were about to surround his rural home in the Valley with a subdivision…
Old Travels
Found this image of our Kazakh guide Hagay at the Tamgaly petroglyph site, a World Heritage site but one that at the time that had supposedly been visited by only six westerners, two of them us. Central Asian T Shirts are even weirder than Japanese ones…
Just for Fun
Larissa (“Lulu”) has a great new image up…
Good news coming!
Despite continuing difficulties with my health, a visit to Santa Fe and a small bequest turned a lot of things around. I may soon have working dictation software (if such a thing is possible!} and a working laptop. I have sold several articles. There is even a glimmer of hope on health, as I strive …
James Lee Mansell, RIP
James was Floyd Mansell’s oldest son, with the woodsman’s heritage and ability one might expect. Perhaps even in extra measure; he was one of the best woodsmen and elk and turkey hunters I ever knew in his youth. I believe he was also a Golden Gloves boxer, as many of Floyd’s kids and proteges were. …
Gordon Hall Wasley Austin RIP
When my old friend and editor at Gray’s, Reed Austin, wrote a piece on how he met his wife, Gordon Hall Wasley, on a business fishing trip in which he ended up getting a treble hook bass plug stuck in his butt, and Gordon had to remove it, I thought it was hilarious and wrote …
Old Days
The piece on the girlss playing somehow reminded me of an older incarnation.This would be the late Lashyn and a much younger Ataika, in the spring woods with us the day we discovered the remains of a very large old bear who evidently starved before he could den up . I still have his huge …
The Girls Play
Once again we have a Girls’ Act. Bobo has regressed her great aunt to about 18 months old (from 14 years). They play and pop and flirt as long as anyone stays awake. This will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Turcoman tazis. Ataika’s mother was 14 when she had her and 21 …
Better Pain Scale…
… copied from my podiatrist. According to a nurse I know, the idiotic “pain face” version is required by the government for some venues. Tell me it ain’t so!