With sharks: A few of the family: My Georgia brother Mike, self described redneck, horticulturalist and small- time farmer, birder, and maker of the finest preserves know to man, with the twins, Judi and Janine, up from PA: Sister Anita St John with her husband Matt, old time rocker, and daughter Stella. She is the …
Author: Steve Bodio
Libby’s Accident (and the Urban Accipiter Phenomenon)
By now at least half the town knows that Lib fell off a ladder tending to the pigeons in the “trap” on top of the pigeon loft. I use “trap” in quotes, because normally it is a pigeon racer’s term for sort of double entrance chamber used in racing pigeon competitions to control access. But …
Eli’s New Interest
The Solar System:
Why Dinos (apart from having feathers)..
… are weirder than you CAN imagine … XKCD tip from artist John Conway’s Twitter feed.
Old Days Mag #1
Unruh
Jack Unruh was a fine artist who did the best, or at least the most interesting, illustrations for many magazines , especially ones of the Time- Life Group, for over 50 years. One of his last regular assignments was doing the pic for the humor column by Bill Heavey at the end of Field and …
What I know about Spooks
This started as a comment in “Secret Agent Man” responding to a crack by Tim, but when I realized it was “too long” ( since WHEN?”) I decided to make it a post, with illos. Les Murray is a Catholic redneck, something of a naturalist, and the best poet Australia ever had.I have two big …
Why I may NEVER be rich…
What’s that? Oh, a Jack Unruh illo, for a piece I had published, that I sent in un- asked for, “over the transom”. In SI. In 1980. When Pat was still editor. And I didn’t follow up. Because I didn’t know how. Thank God Gray’s was only a subway stop away….
The Girl with the Brook Trout Tattoo
My separated- at- birth friend from Savannah, Gil Tracy, recycles Larsen’s title with these shots of his daughter Julia, a French scholar, fishing in North Carolina…hey Russ Chatham, take a look at these! i UPDATE: Here is a poem about Julia’s tattoo by her grandmother, who was a friend of Flannery O’Connor’s, and appears in …
Conundrum
At first I was interested in this catalogue, but the longer I looked at it, the more uneasy I became. The kits for analysing owl pellets were fine. But what is with the artificial FEATHERS? I know, it is illegal to pick up feathers.It is also STUPID for it to be illegal to pick up …