Johnny Barsness on Murder etc

He NAILS  it; : “My observation was the deaths of those magazines were predictable. When F&S and OL (and to lesser extent Sports Afield) were the “Big Three” of the “outdoor” market, they all covered not just hunting AND fishing, but firearms, boating, camping, etc. Some were also stories of a day or week afield. …

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‘Art’ 225,000 years old.

  https://phys.org/news/2021-09-footprint-art-dates-mid-ice-age.html ‘Art’ 225,000 years old. An international collaboration has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. The prints date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago – three to four times older than the …

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WordPress Problems; New Masthead

I think that WordPress is THE hardest piece of software that I have ever “Handled.”Among its other faults it consistently puts stuff in the wrong place. Nevertheless, the Good Karen Meyer in her role as  She Who Must Be Obeyed tells me I must use it for a little while yet, so I am trying …

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Helen Macdonald, Euro Robins

​https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/lauren-groff-matrix/619998/ “I once saw [the writer] Helen Macdonald, who I think is a genius, ” I saw this reference to Helen and it prompted me to look her up to see what she was up to lately. I downloaded the Vesper Flights audio book which she reads. She has a good reading voice. Checking through …

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Terror Bird

  ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4515981261814265/ A parent Devincenzia (a huge Phorusrhacid)has brought prey (Cardiotherium) to its chicks. A mangrove forest in Miocene South America. by Gabriel Ugueto I love these guys. T Rex 2.0. Steve and I read a novel I found about them. It sucked. Neither of us could finish it.

​Warg?

  ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4510726782339713/ “The gigantic skull of the Hyena relative Dinocrocuta and one of the largest land based mammalian carnivores that has ever lived with a shoulder height of 1.9 metres and 300 kg in weight.” That beastie would do justice to Tolkien’s wargs.

Darwin Awards – Stuff Happens

​https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5158114987548472&id=100000500665737&sfnsn=mo Arkansas Shit happens but this is in a new league.    

Down the Shore

https://www.facebook.com/groups/530186287033641/permalink/4462922057093358 A few piper pix from Facebook down in Cape Breton over post Hurricane Larry surf too good to not post. Right click and open in new tab to see full image.