“Not even wrong” is a phrase you hear a lot if you hang out with scientists; it came up constantly last week in conversations with Arthur Wilderson and gunblogger- writer Nate Fitch (photo below). I think I first heard it when I hung out at MIT — no, I never studied there, just hung out, …
Author: Steve Bodio
Quote
“Promoting novels in a soundbite culture is like selling elephants from a gumball machine.” Barbara Kingsolver
Local Artist
Libby’s friend Happy Piasso is a Navajo silvermith who is not always traditional. The belt buckle design is based on a Japanese Goshawk portait in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (notice the red coral eye); the ring is built around a silver bat skull.
Firewood
There is something soul- satisfying about getting firewood when you are in the midst of a real winter… Libby supervises Tyler Scartaccini and Tom Rupenacht’s delivery of a good load of what we call “cedar”. It is actually a juniper but locally the common name is reserved for alligator juniper. This is the species with …
Feathers
Bird and Moon knows “raptors” have feathers… (HT Annie Davidson). Apparently, Stephen Spielberg does not.
When Man Becomes Prey
Cat Urbigkit’s newest, When Man Becomes Prey, is extremely relevant to the matter of the home- invader coyote below.* I rather thoughtlessly quipped “Ask Val Geist” because I have been corresponding with him on such matters for years, and the old zoologist’s theories about too- bold urban predators are bedrock. But Cat is a pastoralist …
Winter
Last moonrise out our front door. I don’t know why coastal people think this is Phoenix… Right or double click to enlarge…
Ataika and her mother in Almaty; Almaty life
Could it be ten years ago? More? Ataika at 6 weeks, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in Konstantin and Anna Plakhov’s back yard, the day we met her, with mother Oska. A month in our apartment, with days riding around in Askar Raybaev’s (Mitsubishi!) stretch limo; visiting museums and supermarkets and restaurants and archaeologists; then to New …
Happy New Year Hunt
I try to hunt at least a little on New Year’s Day, which is a bit superstitious (Thanksgiving too, another story). I have been worried that Ataika, best of all dogs, was getting depressed from lack of activity; hell, I was, beleagured by, first, lack of feedback and misleading written advice from the new Rheumatology …
“A Hundred Sorrows”
Old Year news, which I didn’t want to make anyone sad about during the Holidays. In the kind of coincidence weirdly common in falconry– see the quote referenced above and quoted in full below– good friends (and good falconers) lost both my birds in one December week. Rio/ Guero had been brought to the point …