“You have to keep producing words, against the odds.” Olivia Lang
Author: Steve Bodio
One more quote
M. John Fayhee: “We all eventually reach an age when we realize, to steal a line from “V for Vendetta,” that almost every change you have seen in your life is for the worse.”
Links plus
I have accumulated a few… Federico sent these wonderful reconstructions of Pleistocene “Hominins”, saying “These are by far the most compelling reconstructions of ‘ancient’ people I have ever seen — admittedly one of the two is just an old school Homo sapiens… For whatever reason I do find both reconstructions so much more alive and …
A Texas pig tale
This story was told to me at the Spur by a friend from east of here. Names have been changed or removed to protect the embarrassable. My friend told me: I know you are aware of the problem feral hogs have been causing. There were only three deer taken this year on our family deer …
Soliloquy
Matthew Makarewicz tipped me to the best barbecue in Kansas City last year, and I really wanted to revisit Nicholas Payne’s soliloquy from Thomas McGuane’s 1971 Bushwhacked Piano , even before he requested it. Now imagine two guys shouting it out in unison in Harvard Square in about 72, laughing so hard they are falling …
Italian
I have specific tastes, and in shotguns they run to side by side English prewar (pre- Great War!) doubles, and certain classic American pumps. Generally I think current Italian guns are beautifully made, striking guns, but often overdone, if not as baroque as the products of contemporary Austrian houses. They do make a lot of …
Happy Birthday Mary!
Just got up this pic of my mother, taken last week a bit south of Boston where she lives, near most of my family. She turns 89 today, and I think she looks pretty damn good, especially for the mother of nine individual and often difficult children (I am as you might expect the oldest). …
1911 with Gos
.45 Auto Colt 1927 Argentine, not to be confused with the Baliester Molina which was not a 1911, not designed by John Moses Browning, and not approved by Colt. This one has only the modern additions which actually contribute to function. It has a nicely worn finish, a good trigger, and is tight as a …
Quote
From Samuel Beckett, his code, said well other ways too. But I like this one’s Zen stoicism: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.”
Gosses and Gyrs, again…
The “what hawk?” conundrum is invading my house in the form of art to be framed. I always need more walls but the supply of frames is well exceeded by the rate that art comes in. We now have an almost surrealistically large male Gyr turning his head in greeting, photographed by multi- talented Albuquerque …