In Magdalena. Plus the other pigeon loft.
Preview
We will soon have a European correspondent– a Magdalenian at that. Here is a foretaste: “In any event, I spent the last week in Tirana, Albania. It’s an interesting city, really in the early stages of becoming a completely different place I think. All the buildings are garishly painted in fresh coats of primary colors, …
Pure Fun
Another fine and funny female essayist has a piece up on– well, a lot of things, including bottoms, bosoms, and “Things which are neither one thing or the other”. Here as a taste is a swerve through (over?) vegetarians: “Vegetarians are a pain at dinner parties, forcing decent omnivores to eat like rabbits or the …
NOT prissy!
Larissa— who is as far from a “frigid, frustrated suburban biddy” as anyone I can think of, is furious with, among other things, crude come- ons: “But when he spoke, his intentions were so unappetizingly clear—so impersonally sex-driven –that out of abashment and instinctive non-whoriness I mentally aborted those embryonic “maybe” thoughts I had harbored …
Tired Roza
As I mentioned in my earlier post about the tazi puppies’ first time in the field, they were quite beat by the time we needed to head back to the trucks and got carried back the last little way. Some of us had security blankets when we were little. Roza has a securty chair, that …
Defense..
.. of the Pope from some unusual quarters. From the Guardian: “Poor old Pope Benedict XVI (not a description I thought I’d ever use) seems to have inflamed some excitable sections of Muslim opinion around the world with his ruminations to scientists at Regensburg University during his trip to Germany this week.” (Snip) “Benedict’s offence, …
Hunting Post 9- 11
Curmudgeonly writer Dave Petzal, in his “Gun Nut” identity, reminisces about the old days. I might start filing him under “Decline and Fall”: “In the early 1970s, when I began flying to hunt, you could take a rifle on board a plane in a soft case and ask the stewardess (which is what they were …
All Hunters Love to Hunt..
… whether animal or human. Carel gets philosophical with a young animal rights activist over predatory biophilia: “In essence, Tim and his hunter target audience are both motivated by the same animal drive: an innate love and fascination with other animals, that thing that Edward O. Wilson called biophilia, a trait that’s strongest in the …
Wimp World
Chas sent me this article from MacLeans that documents once more what a culture of fearful wimps we are becoming. “Ute Navidi, who heads a British children’s charity called London Play, was walking along a Berlin street, on a break from an international conference, when she stopped to watch a group of primary schoolchildren in …
.. and a “New” Bird
Also from Walter: a beautiful little new bird species from northeastern India, a hard place to get to. (I’d love to). Its name is Liocichla bugunorum, and it looks VERY different from the only other Liocichla in southern Asia (anywhere, I believe), which is found further east and is mostly dark brown.