NS Bird Society Scissor-Talied Flycatcher, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Oct 2021. This guy is a superstar. There are many pix of this rare visitor online, this week When I was under 10 and in a bird phase, I was enamoured by this species but I have never seen one here, or in the states. As usual, …
It is not the size of the dog in the fight…
..it is the size of the fight in the dog. This is played for laughs but it brings up a real problem. The closer the dog is to the bear, the more likely the bear will chase the dog back to the owner, when the dog chickens out. It reminds me of when my salmon …
Local First Nations Song
Heard it on the radio yesterday. Very haunting. Yo-Yo Ma brings haunting Mi’kmaw anthem to new audience
The Wants, etc
10 GA. V13 DARNE SXS SHOTGUN. Cal. 10 Ga., 2 7/8″. S# 17201. Bbls. 29 1/4″ mono bloc, has V series top bbl. bolt & fitted w/ narrow matted game rib. Bbl. flats stamped w/ French Nitro proofs & 3 Darne punches (V13) & marked for 65mm chambers. Also present are 2 stamps “HORS” …
Speaking of Sci Fi….
Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. Check out the creepy video. Does he fetch, too?
Sci Fi
A-defense-of-genre-literature I read Steve’s sci-fi discussion above when it came in by email. It reminded me of Steve’s interest in H._P._Lovecraft and the recent Jupiter pic above. My first thought was it was the Lair of Cthulhu, as did someone else. I saw these notes on Green Slugs and Green Slugs 2.0 earlier and it brought this …
A good update on homo erectus.
A good update on homo erectus. Erectus seems to be getting some love now. It is being talked about here like it is more human than the subhuman apeman, orc, or troll fantasies seen in popular culture. I remember Valerius Geist saying its first impulse would be to eat you. What evidence he had for …
Slowly through a Land of Stone
This is exactly right:
Ivorybill
I was going to get the Ivorybill note from Tim Gallagher in fast enough to post this cartoon, but Searun beat me to it! I will try to catch up today..
A Defense of “Genre “Literature
This started in a conversation with Chilton Williamson, late of National Review and Chronicles and now independent and writing a monster novel in Laramie. It spread to Bronwen Fullington, who attended a world science fiction convention when we were young and briefly married. The it transferred to Chas Clifton, expert in snake bites and cougar …