Author: Steve Bodio

Quote of the day

“You must surrender yourself first to extravagance. Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, and it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.” – Graham Greene

T. H. White, falconer

Thanks to the efforts of Stacia Novy, with a little help from me and Conor Jameson, Terence Hanbury White, author of The Goshawk and The Once and Future King among many other books, will be recognized as a falconer with a plaque on the wall of remembrance at the Archives of Falconry, at the World …

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Quote

“I’m just about to junk the whole left/ right taxonomy as useless and indeed an active impediment to thought and action. Why should we be dominated by a political labeling system based on where people sat in the Constituent Assembly in Versailles in 1789…?” – Alexander Cockburn

Another Image: Crook

I dug this up recently for a gun scholar and to refresh my memory. General Crook, famed in the Indian wars in the southwest, and a fair man, was also an amateur but serious ornithologist, and poses here with a “lifter” Parker, so combining at LEAST three blog themes.

Heirloom Photos?

Two “family” photos that hang on our walls are a little better than snapshots. Our friend Jay Dusard took this of me a LONG time ago at Libby’s house in Montana. This, even longer ago, was an outtake for this. That is Libby over near the right with the short black hair and the blonde …

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Worst Design Idea EVER

From California Home and Design, proving once and for all that everything you suspected about California is true… To quote them, “Enter the second-floor 1908 library… Designing for a modern family, DeSousa was challenged to fill the shelves with real books when today most are read with an iPad. With the help of Bookbythefoot.com, a …

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