Posting on Peter Bowen reminds me of something potentially important. With the help of Peter and his lawyer, Mark Hartwig, I have regained not only the rights to the book Querencia but also to the remaining physical books. I’ll doubtless start selling them here, and who knows what else? Suggestions encouraged…
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Rat Hunting Men
Many years ago (1980) Peculiar’s late father, Harry Frishman, was a member of the first American climbing party in China since the Thirties, in an attempt to climb Minya Kanka in Szechuan. The trip turned into an epic of adventure and disaster– I’ll let Libby or Mr. P tell it somewhere. But before the climb …
What a Man’s Gotta Do
Recently, Popular Mechanics published a distinctly odd list of Skills Every Man Should Know. Some are good ones, but.. Extend your wireless network? Retouch digital photos?? (I can, by the way). I don’t think there are many capsizing boats within 75 miles. Bolt action rifle? Why not, for instance, an auto pistol? Nothing about cooking? …
Two Good Quotes
“A man of action rarely keeps a journal; it is always later on and in a period of prolonged inactivity, that he does his recollecting, makes his notations, and, very often, has cause to wonder at the course his life has taken.” Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (HT Terry Teachout, About Last Night. “They know …
Doggish Blogstuff
In a post forthrightly called “Nannying Idiots Continue to ignore real problems”, Patrick starts with the case of someone arrested for docking a terrier tail in England and then gets REALLY wound up. “Women are getting breast implants or breast reductions, and men are getting hair transplants and scalp reductions. “Noses are bobbed, fat is …
I was just outside…
But I need to catch up a bit– hope I still have some readers. The stress of finding illustrations for Eagle (not to mention paying for them!)– has been acute, and I have needed large doses of dog- running and hunting to keep me sane. I think things are getting under control. Let’s see, bloggish …
Constitution Day in the U.S.
A copy of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, presented for your browsing pleasure on this day celebrating what it means, or might mean, or what some once might have meant for it to mean to be an American. Print it out; it’s yours to keep.
Nature Morte
The phrase is used for “Still Life” in French, though it has other obvious connotations, I went out with the 16 bore but without a dog yesterday, in a brief work break, to try to bag a cottontail for dinner. I though the doves had mostly left “downhill” to the Rio but a flock rose …
Peaches
Our peaches ripened this week and we’ve started picking. We have a dozen peach trees but only one of them really bore fruit this year. Not sure if this is due to the condition of the trees or the vagaries of the frosts we had in the spring. But overall the trees have been neglected …
Pavarotti and..
I’l forgive Dreher his pitbull post for his link to this utterly surreal You- Tube video (and catch that otherwise inexplicable shot of Grace Jones at the beginning and the one of– I think– Lou Reed at the end).