A curious phenomenon of the thirties, forties, and fifties was the proliferation of dog novels for kids or rather what would be called “young adults” these days. They may just have been a product of a more “country” time– they were utterly un- pc, generally very good in natural history, and dealt forthrightly with issues …
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Real Influences: Travel Writing
While reading Douglas Botting’s 2000 bio of Gerald Durrell I came upon these lines: “Young men woke up to find that the world was once again their oyster, and not just a place you went on a troopship. At almost the same time that the Durrell brothers’ two books werepublished [1953] a galaxy of talened …
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A wonderful ancient sculpture. All- female lizard clone species. Several of these are common in the Magdalena area. Terrierman talks about veterinarian bill- padding, kickbacks etc. Luckily ours is an old- fashioned ranch woman– but I have seen both the demand for pre- op bloodwork and the referral kickback. Did a comet contribute to the …
Darren’s Card
Darren says his old Killer Eagle Christmas card is unavailable in my archives. Must fix!
A Few More Thoughts on Cranes
I have eaten crane (not mine) and it was wonderful. They are grain eaters and don’t taste fishy as most of those others that Julie mentions, such as herons, are alleged to– more like fine roast beef. They are also wary and difficult. Actually few hunt them, and those that do know they are good …
Hunting Cranes
A link at Home Range sent me to the blog of writer and NPR commentator Julie Zikefoose, who recently posted on the topic of Sandhill cranes and her consternation at the thought of hunting them. Zikefoose’s good writing piqued Henry Chappell’s interest some time ago when she admitted sometimes not releasing the house sparrows she …
The New Bird
Believe it or not, he’s relaxing. But anything with eyes like these never looks relaxed. “God may fly a Peregrine, but the devil flies a Goshawk”.
Human Evolution is Accelerating
Back when I was in graduate school the general consensus was that human evolution had generally halted or at least slowed in the early Holocene. It was believed that the strong evolutionary pressures that had operated on early hunter – gatherer populations had eased with the transition to agricultural economies and settled life. Estimable University …
Going Postal
Your tax dollars at work. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.
Last word on Mailer, plus..
Phillip posted below on Mailer, and I agree. A last word, from an email I sent: Betsy once wrote, for the MIT paper, an announcement on him– something like “the overrated self- regarding egotist Norman Mailer will appear…” She assumed it would be caught in rewrite but it wasn’t. His Gary Gilmore book was a …