It has been a week blessed with good music from friends local and visiting… Joel Becktell is local, a neighbor and a world- renowned cellist, probably Magdalena’s most famous resident in a sort of obscure way (he is known among musicians but not by Magdalenians). He is also a cook and as much of a …
Tag: Random Weirdness
Addresses
Two of the strangest showcases of human society I know are the zoo, any zoo (I have written more than a bit on this) and the Post Office. I could go in a lot of directions with the PO (many of you know that Lib works in a rural PO) but I only want to …
Silly dog pic
Chipotle (“Chip”), the PO Lab, waiting for a cookie from one of his customers (photo by Yvonne Magener, through her PO box…):
Darne!
By cosmic coincidence not one but two of my old French Darne shotguns visited this weekend. Scott Elliot has the shot and ball gun designed for me. In this one you can see the quarter rib and sights… and the unique sliding breech:Then falconer and dog in- law Bodie Littlejohn came by after a duck …
East/ West: Architecture
Or “vernacular” architecture in Christopher Alexander’s words… This is NOT Magdalena (though I have had people insist it is and even locate it); it is Bayan Nuur in Olgii aimag.Nor are these.This is:I even put plastic on the windows.
Our Crew Goes Viral
Patrick Burns links a video, which comes to our Asia Group via Karen Myers– and turns out to be our gang here in NM. Terence Wright, lurcher Loki, and Gyr- Prairie tiercel Cog are family. They have appeared here before and I hope will again soon- we have hunting plans. The team(photos by Daniela).Cog on …
Guns vs Spells
From Peculiar who writes: “I’ve often thought that aspects of the Harry Potter epic would have been improved by this approach….” Also check his blog link to an artist who has drawn The Call of Chthulhu in the style of Dr Suess, including rhyming text– brilliant! As he says, “We have an infant who will …
Links, Pix, & Assorted Phenomena…
Lauren’s Aquiling is up and running again and, at least until her book on her year among the Kazakhs is out, the best place for exotic falconry and adventure tales… There is some pretty funny and often grotesque animal photography up at Nature Wants to Eat You. HT Annie Davidson, who also sent this video …
A very strange word list
This may only interest writers and other word- mad wretches.. But I recently unearthed a 1940 postcard of the Tokyo Olympiad (?) written on but never sent by Virginia Huntington, Betsy’s mother and the bishop’s wife.We NEVER made any sense of it- creative interpretations encouraged. (She was also a rather awful, but published, poet, if …
My other side
I was asked by email if I knew anything about the history on my Italian side. Not from books is my answer. Bodios (and my grandmother on that side, Sylvia Arzeni) came most recently from Ispra on the east shore of Lake Maggiore a few miles south of the Swiss border; a village called Bodio …