Jutta’s girls Taalai and Nhubia of course…
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Customs
If you don’t want your overseas package to look like this when you receive it… You probably shouldn’t order bootjacks that look like this all the way from France! Photos courtesy of Gil Stacy.
Quote
On our rockstar Helen, by Jonathan Katz, an uncommon observation. “… the writer Wilfred Sheed wrote once in the New Yorker that “every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” Sheed wasn’t being nasty, he was being honest. I loved Macdonald’s talk and a I loved her book, but I died a little tonight. …
Doggage
It is spring in Germany and I have been neglecting Jutta’s girls. But the Nhubia (tazi) and Taalai (taigan) show is revving up with spring energy. I THINK Nhubia is eleven or twelve, and I know she is over ten. You would never know it.
Helen Rockstar!
Randy Davis wrote me today to tell me about a signing for Tom McGuane’s new book– I will delay getting it until I can get an inscribed one in Denver. He was at the Strand with Tom Brokaw. “My oldest son went to see/hear the McGuane – Brokaw show at Strand Books in Manhattan. Late …
Heirloom Photos?
Two “family” photos that hang on our walls are a little better than snapshots. Our friend Jay Dusard took this of me a LONG time ago at Libby’s house in Montana. This, even longer ago, was an outtake for this. That is Libby over near the right with the short black hair and the blonde …
Coffee Table Still Life
Helen is published in Vogue. It must be the first time the act of befriending a Goshawk has been featured there. (tip from Randy D). She has also gotten a second prestigious literary prize, this time the Costa, I think what used to be called the Whitbread.
Image, found
Carlos Martinez del Rio’s photo of a “Magpie print”, in new snow in Wyoming…
Images, painted
A new Thomas Quinn (see J P Parker’s perceptive article in Ranch and Riata)… And an old favorite Russell Chatham oil (favorite of both Reid Farmer’s and mine), in the Denver Museum, an almost abstract painting of a favorite place on his grandfather Gottardo Piazzoni’s ranch in Big Sur, titled “No Place for Disdain”:
Not Even Wrong
“Not even wrong” is a phrase you hear a lot if you hang out with scientists; it came up constantly last week in conversations with Arthur Wilderson and gunblogger- writer Nate Fitch (photo below). I think I first heard it when I hung out at MIT — no, I never studied there, just hung out, …