I was going to get the Ivorybill note from Tim Gallagher in fast enough to post this cartoon, but Searun beat me to it! I will try to catch up today..
Author: Steve Bodio
A Defense of “Genre “Literature
This started in a conversation with Chilton Williamson, late of National Review and Chronicles and now independent and writing a monster novel in Laramie. It spread to Bronwen Fullington, who attended a world science fiction convention when we were young and briefly married. The it transferred to Chas Clifton, expert in snake bites and cougar …
“World Class Bird”
In Kazakhstan, when nature photographer Oleg Belyalov finally decided that we were serious naturalists, he wanted to make sure we saw the best birds. We had been out for a long day, so he took us to one of the clear little trout streams that flow through Almaty, where, in a bush on the bank, …
New Bird
We are getting a young Gyr/Anatum/Barbary from Bill Meeker this week. He is about the size of a pigeon, and just fledged….
Striper Hipsters
Striper hipsters ca 1955 , Wellfleet, Mass; Charley DeFeo, Joe Bodio Open in a new tab to embiggen.
RIP Irbis
LIbby here. We lost our beautiful Irbis two weeks ago. He was suffering from some neurological affliction in his back and could no longer stand or walk, and had stopped eating. He was by far the shiest of all our dogs — he broke a rear leg very badly when he was ust eleven months …
Gotcha!
I was convinced that Dave Petzal was wrong when he declared categorically that nothing favorable to hunting had ever come out of the New Yorker. I was cautious because, you know, DAVID IS NEVER WRONG. When I was writing Good Guns, I made a less than reverent remark about John Moses Browning. A note came …
Johnny Barsness on Murder etc
He NAILS it; : “My observation was the deaths of those magazines were predictable. When F&S and OL (and to lesser extent Sports Afield) were the “Big Three” of the “outdoor” market, they all covered not just hunting AND fishing, but firearms, boating, camping, etc. Some were also stories of a day or week afield. …
WordPress Problems; New Masthead
I think that WordPress is THE hardest piece of software that I have ever “Handled.”Among its other faults it consistently puts stuff in the wrong place. Nevertheless, the Good Karen Meyer in her role as She Who Must Be Obeyed tells me I must use it for a little while yet, so I am trying …
Evil Racist Rock Destroyed in Wisconsin
Sent by Kirk Hogan, surely a liberal if the word means anything. Surely this is a joke or an Onion parody. It seems that a large racist rock has been identified, “cancelled” and destroyed at the request of students at the University of Wisconsin. The poor “glacial erratic” had done nothing but it was condemned …