This started as a comment in “Secret Agent Man” responding to a crack by Tim, but when I realized it was “too long” ( since WHEN?”) I decided to make it a post, with illos. Les Murray is a Catholic redneck, something of a naturalist, and the best poet Australia ever had.I have two big …
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Why I may NEVER be rich…
What’s that? Oh, a Jack Unruh illo, for a piece I had published, that I sent in un- asked for, “over the transom”. In SI. In 1980. When Pat was still editor. And I didn’t follow up. Because I didn’t know how. Thank God Gray’s was only a subway stop away….
The Girl with the Brook Trout Tattoo
My separated- at- birth friend from Savannah, Gil Tracy, recycles Larsen’s title with these shots of his daughter Julia, a French scholar, fishing in North Carolina…hey Russ Chatham, take a look at these! i UPDATE: Here is a poem about Julia’s tattoo by her grandmother, who was a friend of Flannery O’Connor’s, and appears in …
Conundrum
At first I was interested in this catalogue, but the longer I looked at it, the more uneasy I became. The kits for analysing owl pellets were fine. But what is with the artificial FEATHERS? I know, it is illegal to pick up feathers.It is also STUPID for it to be illegal to pick up …
Carlos’s Sparrow Sauce
Just like my paternal grandmother’s, which she used on Polenta. “Makes a nice-a sauce”, she would say as she caught the sparrows in the pigeon loft by swatting them with a broom or popping them into a brown paper bag and whacking it on a beam. I have never felt more Italian……. Here she is …
Obligatory Pigeon Material
Every so often non- pigeon readers have to put up with a pigeon post- pun intended. These ones are relatively painless, and the second is also of interest to dino- philes, evo- bio- types, and even competitive pigeon show fanciers…(Ava, birds soon- we got the boxes, but one pair is still feeding. You are getting …
Great Dog Pic
Daniel’s Boone and Maggie nap.
Jean Louis’ Idols?
Jean- Louis Lassez, just back to the Muleshoe Ranch from his art show in Florence, says: “There is this game on facebook where you put images of three people who represent your soul. As I have a more complex personnality than your average facebook user (I think), I decided on 4 instead of 3. The …
Secret Agent Man
I’ll resume blogging with a bit of humor; I for one could used it… When JP Parker reviewed Hounds of Heaven for Amazon (an almost embarrassingly good review), he stated:”Everyone and everything has to be quickly and easily pigeonholed in our Age of Single-Minded Experts: if you’re an artist, you can’t possibly be a scientist; …
More George
……Some serious- and silly- photos. I think Karen did the painting, which was on the casket: