Tom Russell’s magnum opus, his “Western Opera” or “Cowboy Musical” will be out in mid-April, debuting at Passim at 47 Palmer Street under Harvard Square, once the home of the legendary Club 47. It was one of the very few venues that kept a sort of vernacular American music alive even as it morphed into …
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Helen Rockstar!
Randy Davis wrote me today to tell me about a signing for Tom McGuane’s new book– I will delay getting it until I can get an inscribed one in Denver. He was at the Strand with Tom Brokaw. “My oldest son went to see/hear the McGuane – Brokaw show at Strand Books in Manhattan. Late …
Anglers Journal
Simply this: the best sporting mag since Ed Gray styarted the “real” Grays in the mid- seventies. Real writers known and unknown– the last interview with Peter Matthiessen– and superb graphics and art. And despite bonefish and other stars of the flats, NOT just fly fishing– commercial fishing even (Matthiessen’s interview accompanied with a cut …
Amazing viper
From Anne D. I had seen still photos but they did not remotely do it justice.
Useful card
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 …
Long time coming…
Long story too– not just one press… Better image and info coming.
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
Aardwolf
One more image. An aardwolf, which is of course no wolf at all, by Jonathan Kingdon. Can you read the inscription?