This honestly looks like the best bad Chinese menu I have seen in a while. I am completely hung up in deciding between Pure speculation Meat and Pure belly Clearance. h/t The Corner
Number 4000 approaches
This is blog post # 3970. It is hard to believe, but Q the Blog, started very tentatively in June of 2006 with the help of Matt Mullenix, has now contained more words, and had more readers, than any of my books. Several times I almost gave it up, but somehow, the appreciation of friends …
Pigeon Romance
Jack sent this panel from the estimable Bird and Moon, who previously gave us the movie raptors taking off their lizard costumes in relief, to show their feathers underneath.
The January Hills…
and their denizens. Federico Calbolli sent me this video of a hunting fisher in Canada. It is a great hunting scene– watch how she overcomes the hare -pure speed and focused audacity! Here is the video, and text: They are splendid but slightly scary creatures. Long ago I lived in western Mass, in a drafty …
Birds like Dogs!
I used to have a whole photo section called that, but Daniel reminded me of it when he sent these pics of his girl pup Maggie playing with Bramble, the falcon. He writes: “She plays rough with the other dogs (this is a ‘doggy’ bitch, for sure), but never touches the bird. “He is quite …
Tom McGuane on Raptors
Novelist Tom McGuane, while noted for his horses and pointing dogs, has always had a feel for birds of prey, notices them, and on occasion writes lyrically about them. There is a vivid set piece in the novel Something to Be Desired, in which which the protagonist, LucienTaylor, takes his young son, who does not …
Woodcock Here and There..
Well, not really here. The only Woodcock I ever saw in Magdalena was a storm-blown starving vagrant that some neighbors brought me and that died of starvation by the next day–being 500 miles off course does not bode well for birds. No, I mean in the US, and in the traditional haunts of ‘Cock in …
New Dutch
Dutch Salmon has a new collection of outdoor tales: Country Sports II: More Rabid Pursuits of a Redneck Environmentalist. (Available from High Lonesome Books, PO Box 878, Silver City NM 88062). I think it is his best and most varied yet. I don’t think I can “review” it any better than to use my introduction, …
Public Lands- More Perspective on Don T
Ron Moody, a neighbor of Don’s in Lewistown, has written on the subject of Public Lands and their loss before, notably in this article from the Bull Moose Gazette he sent me last week: “So is this dispute an isolated event? Or do other NGOs (non-government organizations) self-censor or suppress support for public access to …
C J’s latest project
C J Hadley came over as a young girl from Birmingham in England, and worked at Car and Driver magazine in its legendary years, when the late David E Davis ran a strong stable of writers and illustrators. It may be advancing age, but I think magazines were more colorful then, perhaps because they were …