I have been promising a review of Paula Young Lee’s Deer Hunting in Paris for what seems like forever, and I apologize for taking so long. Part of it was thinking my way through to what I thought exactly or critically. I loved it and found it intensely quotable; on the other hand I found …
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Another Poet
Tim Murphy is not just one of our finest living poets, and the only one I know who celebrates what I have called “our Siberia”, the chilly plains of North Dakota. He is a living rebuke to stereotypes: a farmer, a businessman, a Yale graduate who studied under Robert Penn Warren; a classicist who writes …
Cowboy Poem
From Paul Zarzyski’s Steering with my Knees, a real poem by a real poet who is also a real cowboy. And once more demonstrating that everything is attached to everything else, it is about John Moore’s sister! ( I might add that Paul has drunk a few beers at the Golden Spur, but sometimes I …
Book review # 1
Do you want to know what a real rancher thinks? There are some excellent novels by “ranchers and…”; that is, writers who come to ranching from something else. But if there is another first- rate writer who comes from three generations on the harsh plains of eastern Montana, I don’t know of him. John Moore …
Another Quote
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition. (Attributed to Kipling by Paula Young Lee, though I have heard a similar one attributed to Jeff Cooper– who well may have gotten it from Kipling).
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Update: gwood got it in comments with “Use enough gun!”– homage to Ruark….
Feathered Tyrants
Are we finally having the sense to use feathers as the default condition on at least Theropod Dinos? New and new- ish examples of these smaller relatives of T rex would seem to argue “yes”. Add caption Brian Switek muses on the state of the arthere. See also the website of John Conway, the most …
Utter Image Fail
How do they think that cartridge shoulder gets out through the barrel? And why should we take someone promoting their agenda with anything this dumb seriously?
Central Asian Dogs and Falconry
First, a wonderful film from Kyrgizstan– in English! Next, an amazing album of photos by our friend Jutta, who traveled there this spring. I have already posted a few of her photos. Another film, from Turkmenistan. Notice the smaller Sakers there, more like Prairie falcons than Gyrs. The style of hunting is much like ours, …
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“Some read that they may embellish their conversation, or shine in dispute; some that they may not be detected in ignorance, or want the reputation of literary accomplishments: but the most general and prevalent reason of study is the impossibility of finding another amusement equally cheap or constant, equally independent on the hour or the …