This report on excavations at a 7,500 year-old neolithic/chalcolithic site in southern Serbia doesn’t tell us lots of new information about that period in Europe. The article says this site may push back the initial date of the Copper Age by 500 years but doesn’t really give you enough information to assess the claim. However, …
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Paris Hilton Tries to Help Drunk Elephants
The headline for this piece was so bizarre I couldn’t let it go. So now she’s the celebrity spokesperson for a big problem in India: “Activists said a celebrity endorsement such as Hilton’s was sure to raise awareness of the plight of the pachyderms that get drunk on farmers’ homemade rice beer and then go …
Thoughts on Taking The Dog
I’ve written a couple emails to friends explaining why, for Pete’s sake, I’m not taking Rina to Texas. My answers are many and are all over the map, which suggests to me that none of them are exactly what I mean to say. The bottom line is that I am afraid for her safety on …
Morning Run– Sunday
When we have been to busy to go out more than a couple of times a week, like now, our hounds get pretty rowdy. Plummer barks and the tazis “sing” all the way to Lee’s. This AM we went to the ranch. It is finally getting cooler. They chased one cottontail which immediately went down …
Tomatoes
Here are some heirloom tomatoes grown by Mr. and Mrs. Peculiar this summer in Colorado. The big ones in particular may have been the best I ever ate. It occurs to me that I, Libby, and the P’s were all born in cities, Lib and I in big ones, but we were not raised in …
Hounds
The Asian tazi gene pool continues to expand– Vladimir now has three, in addition to mine and their offspring. Puppy Urtak is somewhat related to my dogs, and is going to be huge. Here he is at only four months with the full- grown female, Adel, who is closely related to mine. Timur, a young …
Invasion of the City Folks
Jonathan Hanson sent me this NYT article on rich city people who move to the country knowing it would both rile me and make me laugh. I don’t write about it much in the blog, but the subject is one I have been known to go on about a bit– well, maybe more than a …
Links
A guitar that looks like an AK 47. I agree with Mr. Massie. Sippican on creativity. (He builds fine furniture). “There’s a mindset that’s de rigeur these days that rules are for schmucks….(snip) “What utter bosh. Michaelangelo Buonnarotti Simoni painted some interesting things, and he labored under plenty of constraints, including: don’t piss off your …
Back– for a moment…
I am in the throes of completing Eagle. It is the hardest part, at least for me– getting all the illos, paying, begging (often repeatedly) for promised material, scanning (all slide scans must be done in Albuquerque, 100 miles away, and I don’t HAVE them all yet) and arranging them to Reaktion’s arcane system (on …
The World’s Tallest Horse
…..lives in Niota, Tennessee. That’s southwest of Knoxville. Reminded me of this post from last year.