Just found out my old friend Henry Chappell, who writes good novels and wrote one of the best bird hunting books I know, has started a blog, Home Range , on matters environmental and (I hope soon) sporting. I would bet that he would fit somewhere within the “Crunchy Con” philosophical group. Here he is …
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Chinese Tazi Art
Or saluki if that is your preference. Paul Domski sent me this link, which caused me to reply: “Nice image. I have other Chinese saluki- tazi images, some even older, but not this one. Frustrating thing is that the article propagates the Arab origin myth– I have older images from China than any available from …
Around The Web
This has to be the most… original… variation on the fish/ Darwin/ whatever sticker I have seen yet. HT Doc Hypercube for the site. I’m sorry, but I can’t warm to control freaks, especially ones that are known to freak out about people owning animals (ferrets in one case I know). This is Rudy in …
Animal Family
Just got a photo of Ataika’s daughter Cleo from the Beregovoys. She looks remarkably like Atai. And for any pigeon fanciers, here is one of my new pairs, gold- necked Catalonian tumblers:
Book Pile
Dr. Hypercube mentioned his book pile in passing, and I told him I had not one but several. I love seeing what others are reading and asume readers of this site like the idea, too. So: Also a bookcase slice I took a while back. Obvious what part of the library this is taken in. …
Little Red Riding Hood Was Right
It seems an article of faith in American environmental circles that wolves are harmless. While (until recently) there was no record of modern North American wolves harming anyone, a bit of research shows this to be an anomalous situation. Wolves of the exact same species preyed on humans in Europe and Russia; wolves even smaller …
Working Like a Dog
In an email exchange following my post on Meet Mr. Grizzly, Gregg, Steve and I wondered whether such dogs as Stevens describes could be made today. Your opinions invited and welcome! Matt: “My question is: Without the lifestyle (ranching, cowboy-ing, big game hunting on horseback, life pre-electric and pre-internal-combustion) setting the challenge and the training …
Orson Scott Card on American Car Culture
Find linked at 2Blowhards a column by sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card pondering the elephant in the garage: how car culture impacts us, literally, and how a different sort of American landscape might look. Steve, Reid and I are all sci-fi fans of various pedigree. We spend a lot of time puzzled about how things …
Meet Mr. Grizzly
I’ve been dreaming of deadlines, typing memos and organizing items on my desk in my sleep. This has made of Matt a dull (or duller) boy. But like the time, three weeks after my twins were born, when I ate six grapefruits in a sleep and vitamin-deprived orgy of gorging, I’ve just devoured the book …
Excuses & Around the Web
Bear with me a bit, dear readers! I have just begun my eagle book, mentioned below, and am stll shaking down a schedule. Also doing last reread of my collaboration- in translation of Cherkassov’s 1865 Notes of an East Siberian Hunter with Vladimir — a labor of love that will not be an easy sell! …