Here is the full image of the painting that contains the detail I blogged on below. I await the book, but as far as I know it is in Chinese, so it may still be enigmatic. It is both beautiful and sinister, and its title is “Clearing the Mountains”. Who is clearing whom out of …
Author: Steve Bodio
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“No science without fancy. No art without facts” (Vladimir Nabokov, via Carlos Martinez del Rio)
Old Timers
Our annual fiesta seems to have taken on new life, and despite threatening (pre?) monsoon clouds staggering by, nothing is getting cancelled. It SMELLS like O t’s. Now we just need the metronymic rhythm of 4 pm daily storms (with hail!) and maybe this will be the best “real” rain in a decade… Pics, random …
Cover
Book is more than half done but not done; cover is. Vadim of course.
Local moths
All but one are member of large groups that are represented everywhere and anywhere, though collected here. That one is not rare, but it is interesting…
Pedersen Rifle
But for the preferences of General MacArthur and a big supply of WWI Springfields, we might have had a more elegant, if complicated, rifle for WWII than the Garand. Nathaniel F, gunblogger, scholar, and expert on military weapons and their history, first showed me a cartridge for the legendary Pedersen when he visited with Arthur …
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Reid found this. Sounds satirical but I assure you I have seen worse in Mongolia, not to mention Kenneth Tynan’s legendary Spanish one he cites in his 50’s bullfight book Bull Fever… (better than Death in the Afternoon- improbably, I have two first eds, one signed, totally by accident…)
Clark City
Russell Chatham is back in northern California, fishing, thinking, writing, getting back to his roots. I don’t have any practical info, yet, but he is reviving Clark City Press, one step at a time . Back in the day, he was the one publisher willing to take Querencia– the- book. Without him, this blog would …
Image query
David W in Texas, an old falconer like me, sent this unsourced image. In it, a slightly stylized eagle appears to be attacking a human, while the nose of a tazi just enters lower left. Anybody out there who can translate the title or tell us anything about it? (Style but not subject of art …
Weekend Doggage
Daniel, with his new Civil War beard, trains one of his astonishingly beautiful pointers, art married to genes… look at that tail!