… is the phrase Chas at Nature Blog used when he e-mailed me that he and Mary (and their dogs, cat, etc.) had been evacuated from their house by the Forest Service at the approach of the Mason Fire. It is already VERY close– they could lose their house. Chas is fireblogging, with pics, but …
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Forgive my language but..
.. or, Good Things from Britain #5. Andrew Stuttaford of NRO sent me to this hilarious and touching site with these words: “Here’s one American’s gesture in the wake of the horror in London. It’s oddly moving, very nostalgic, rather nice, and a terrific read, but, not for people troubled by the f word”. You’ve …
Good Things from Britain 4
The Alpha Environmentalist couldn’t make the comment link work, which is just as well,as he gets his own guest post. He says: “I couldn’t make your “comments” link work, but: . . . the best beer. Sorry, Germany, but England’s breadth ofchoices makes her the top beer country. Not to mention having (still)the best places …
Honor in Animals
From Shelley on Tazi List comes this fascinating Time article on play and fairness in dogs and other social animals. “…Thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals–primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats–possess not just …
Welcome Back!
Peculiar has returned from a long hiatus with a feast of new bloggage.
Footprints 2
A considerably more detailed piece from the Independent. Via Cronaca.
Striking Image
From Chas Clifton’s OTHER blog, Letter from Hardscrabble Creek, comes via two other links this striking image and message of a strong black woman with a gun: “Free People Own Guns” Hardscrabble Creek is another example of how simple categories tend to break down these days– it’s Chas and his opinions on academia, contemporary paganism, …
Cellphones
Michael Blowhard has posted on his experience of finally yielding to getting a cellphone, and his experiences are an eerie parrallel to mine. Most young people seem to use them without effort, resistance, or inhibition, but we both have some trouble. Is it generational? For instance: both of us were more or less convinced by …
Good Things from Britain #3
And of course they still make the most beautiful shotguns in the world (go to the photo galleries).
Good Things from Britain #2: Great Drunks
This morning while reading James Lileks daily Bleat, I came upon this wonderful throwaway line. He was talking about Peter O’Toole, who apparently appears in “Troy” with Brad Pitt. (We here at Casa Querencia don’t see many movies because the nearest theater is 26 miles away, and the nearest good one closer to 100). The …