Have been ruining my health and especially my right, mouse- running hand (Parkinson’s overlaid with arthritis exacerbated by gout and maybe carpal tunnel syndrome- AAARGH!) working overtime on the last details for the eagle book- I promise a real cover soon. I need a few days away from this keyboard, working at the town library.To …
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Western Samizdat
I know Steve is very busy working on galleys for his new eagle book, so I figured I would put up a link to a very complimentary piece by Bill Croke that was in today’s American Spectator. The subtitle says it all: If you haven’t read New Mexico writer Stephen Bodio, it’s time you did.
Trans-Atlantic Migration Theory
In the last week or so, the UK Independent and the Washington Post have both carried stories about new evidence that might support the trans-atlantic migration theory for peopling of the New World advanced in the 1990s by Dennis Stanford (Smithsonian Institution) and Bruce Bradley (University of Exeter). I was just looking back and I …
Hot Links
Makes sense: giant dinosaurs had giant fleas. Or as the Yahoo headline writer put it, “When blood-sucking mega-fleas stalked the Earth.” Rather florid. Alcohol a factor in woman’s cannonball death, authorities say. And to show you that things are really hoppin’ in San Diego County (see woman’s cannonball death) 50 roosters rescued as police break …
Puppies
As Steve posted a few days ago, Connie and I did make a quick trip to New Mexico to look at Aussie pups. After our lab mix Maggie died in January, our Aussie Sadie has been pretty sad and lonely. We’ve planned all along to get another dog, and an Aussie was our preference. Connie …
Bison Hunt
I don’t go on the north end of town much, so I missed seeing this until the Denver Post pointed it out this morning. An unknown graffiti artist calling himself/herself “Karma” used abandoned concrete culvert segments located just off of I-25 in Westminster, as a canvas to paint an Indian bison hunter and his quarry. …
Valentine from Dinolo
Ace flytyer Paul Dinolo of Duxbury, Massachusetts, just sent me an ingeniously boxed selection of small stream flies and terrestrials for this coming summer. More thought went into them even than is apparent; they are all big enough for clumsy fingers but small enough for tiny fish!
Framed Vadim
The new frames are finally done — here’s the latest rotation in the library. Click once right and again for biggest…
Johnny UK’s Gun
I don’t want to overwhelm everybody with gun posts, but this is a good one. Prompted by my dream gun post below, John Hill, “Johnny UK” of our comment section, has sent photos of his “one good gun”, a product of a lifetime of experimenting and trading. It is a Damon Petrick from Herve Bruchet …
In support of Daniel Richards
I hate to see the pressure that California Game & Fish Commission President Daniel W. Richards is under for participating in a hunt he had every right to undertake. Although hunting mountain lions is illegal in California, Richards traveled to Idaho for a successful lion hunt. Richards is not only a hunter, but reportedly is …