From The Eskimo Cookbook, Shishmarek Alaska, 1952: “Soured Seal Liver: “Soured seal liver is made in the summer here. Place liver in enamel pot or dish and cover with blubber. Put in warm place for a few days until sour. “Most boys and girls don’t like it. Only grownups and old people. “I don’t like …
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From Toby Jurovics, a Titian, early 1500’s: “Giorgio Cornaro with Falcon celebrates Giorgio Cornaro the Younger’s election into the Maggior Consiglio or the Great Council of Venice. “ I had never seen it, and wrote to Toby that I preferred it to the better- known Holbein of Sir Robert Cheseman with a Gyr. Henry 8’s …
Book Review #2: Rifle Looney News
John Barsness and Eileen Clarke seem like such normal people that is hard to realize at first just how unusual their “lifestyle” is. They are ubiquitous in the hunting and gun magazines, more so than any other couple I have known (I dare say I have known many of the sporting couples of my time). …
Book Review #1: Blood on my Hands by Gerry Cox
Gerry Cox — the “G” is pronounced hard as in his ancestor Gerhard — was an administrator at Cornell until recently. In his previous life he was an English professor, who back in the 70’s at least once wrote for the scholarly journal English Literary Renaissance, where I was an editor. He is also a …
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Brad Watson, who was on at least one of the hunts below, has just gotten his story “Eykelboom” published in the New Yorker, and it is FINE haunting story. Is the New Yorker publishing better fiction recently? I say yes, from all sorts of odd and good writers– I know it is not northeastern- chauvinist …
Seasons 2: Big game & harvest
With a little help from my friends– Carlos, Brad, Jim. I am not doing big game these days except in a group, hard in NM if you don’t pay top dollar. Which is why I may move my meat hunts north if health permits… All animals here provided feasts including long- gone lion– see Don …
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science
Programming Note
Steve asked me to put up a post to let everyone know that he is in Deep Springs visiting Jackson, Nikki and Eli. Internet access isn’t the best there, so he will most likely not be posting much for the time being.
Arrived…
If you prefer featherless Dinos…
… like those in Jurassic Park, you might also think chickens look like this: