I have been neglecting my blog family. Check the sidebar for new additions to the blogroll- Border Wars, and my neighbor (forty miles on dirt roads) Morgan Atwood at Rum & Donuts, who has abandoned his pseudonym “Nagrom”. Also, LoARSqred, partner of MDMNM of Sometimes Far Afield, has moved with him to Small City NM …
Tag: Random Weirdness
Boston and Home at last!
Home from our second trip this month and hoping to stay, write, blog about something with content, hunt, and not travel. Our stay with sister Karen Graham and her husband George exceeded all expectations. We didn’t go out much- rather, we sat and ate and drank and talked and met with friends, some of whom …
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Bizarro.
Bill Haast dead at 100…
The legendary reptile man Bill Haast died in Florida last week at 100. According to the NYT: “Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally. It was all in a day’s work for probably the best-known snake handler in the country, a scientist-cum-showman who made enough money …
The Wierdest Clock in the World…
… stands in in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia in front of a bank. I know that is a coelacanth on top (why??) but what are those… tentacles? I can’t read Mongolian, only (some) Russian, but I have a vague recollection of shooting a slide of a plaque with an inscription on it. You can see why …
Headline of the Week
From Arthur Wilderson: “Swedish flamingoes massacred in frenzied anteater attack”. It is actually true if a bit breathless… Prompted by this and perhaps the recent Zoo posts, Arthur added some thoughts on a distant relative, the ground-dwelling late- Pleistocene monster Megatherium: “I saw a mounted megatherium skeleton in Chicago’s Field Museum. I was pretty impressed, …
“The painful results of atlatl violence…”
Reid sent this excellent link to Atlatl art, but one combination of art and caption was too irresistible NOT to reproduce. Read The Whole Thing. The painful results of atlatl violence:
Signs
Two signs encountered by Sir Terence Clark in his travels. The first, which he is pointing to, means “female saluki” (I know Terence through the dogs– he is another scholarly dog traveller). It is in Tunisia. The second is in Kashgar–the Chinese consider our noses huge. (The Han at least– I rather doubt the often …
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John Davila, one of my oldest and closest friends in New Mexico, is a former rodeo cowboy and a rancher with land- grant roots who lives where he was born, many long dirt- road miles south of the pavement in Catron County. These days he raises half- Japanese grass- fed cattle, another story, and manages …
A Commonplace Book
For years I have kept what the English call a commonplace book, a place to write down quotes. I gave it up a few years ago, but have started up again. Re- reading it (or them; I have several volumes), I have discovered things worth adding to the blog, from the whimsical to the serious. …