I have continued reading the book about Maynard Dixon that I discussed in an earlier post and discovered that in the spring of 1930 he spent some weeks sketching and painting near the town of Tehachapi, California. Tehachapi is set in the Tehachapi Mountains, the southernmost range of the Sierra Nevada, and is a beautiful …
PETA and the Gay Sheep
They just won’t quit! Margory Cohen just sent me a link to this NYT piece on how PETA has distorted the research efforts of a biologist working with sheep, leading to misrepresentations of his work and even death threats! “Dr. Roselli, a researcher at the Oregon Health and Science University, has searched for the past …
Flight Medal?
You may have read about the National Guardsmen who fled their post under the threat of invasion by armed intruders from Mexico and are now being rewarded for it. Reader Bruce Douglas suggests a proper medal:
Evil Wolves? (and Other Predators)
Reid sent LAT article on wolves returning to Germany which seems to indicate that wolves are as polarizing there as here. “..Joachim Bachmann, a hunter with a wall full of trophies, is not so lyrical when it comes to the wolf’s reappearance amid the birch and pine of the eastern woods in Saxony. “In today’s …
Eating Hares
The post below reminded me that I never posted pics of our hare meal a couple ofweeks ago. Here are four quarters of hound- caught hare, courtesy of John Burchard and his dogs. Tigger is becoming extremely intelligent– John tells me she is learning to read. As you can see, utterly un- shredded by the …
Ol’ Jim
Prairie Mary and The Alpha E have both sent me this NYT interview with Jim Harrison, structured around (what else?– but nice to see in the NYT) a quail hunt and a meal, and plenty of organic cigarettes as well. Jim is an actual working artist and an exemplar of the life well- lived. I …
Tetrapod Zoology
Our favorite zoological blogger, Darren Naish, has moved to a new site at Science Blogs. Go there, bookmark him, and read his first post (on avian vampires). Congratulations, Darren!
Writing Life
Please: read Michael Blowhard’s devastating critique of the lit biz in general and the NYTBR specifically. A lot of folks have their knickers in a twist; I think he just NAILS it.
As Others See Us..
Pluvialis— who has been mysteriously absent from the blogosphere– sent me an unintentionally hilarious review of the Wilder Places edition of T. H. White’s The Goshawk. This was a series of ‘forgotten classics” I edited and introduced– sorry, I can’t find any link to that edition. Anyway, though he attempted to be kind, the reviewer …
More A. R.
Some exceedingly creepy rhetoric from PETA’s own site: their official policy on pets: “This selfish desire to possess animals and receive love from them causes immeasurable suffering, which results from manipulating their breeding, selling or giving them away casually, and depriving them of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior. Their lives are restricted …