Let this one load all the way. The thing to look at is not the second rate Gorbatov imitations (the falconry one is almost a direct ripoff), but the still life pics at the bottom. I love the Russians but sometimes I don’t know quite what to say.. HT Chas
Tag: Random Weirdness
Car Skeet
Todd Dixon sent this amazing video of a …car shoot? Funniest video since “Harden the F**K up!
Random weirdness links
If you were a former dope smuggler, would you put it in your resume? English Russia has a fabulous Soviet anti – drug poster. Personally I doubt I could have survived in the Soviet Union without drugs and vodka. And what’s with the smoking CAT? Great line plus the immortal Stonecutter’s song. HT David Zincavage …
Querencia?
Walter Hingley found an ad for Querencia- the- book that… well, you have to see it in its entirety: “Bodio, Stephen: “Querencia” 1990 (1996) Clark City Press, 2nd Printing (1st Hardcover printing), Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author. “Querencia” — the Zen-like Spanish term means something like the tiny pocket of one’s inner …
Not- so serious links
Dr Hypercube has three great links from English Russia which you should also visit, on reindeer races, Ukrainian Amazons, and wildly implausible airplanes, some of which actually existed (see here.) The charm of the first is partially linguistic: “People bring their best deers and race, race, race. The looser deers are being eaten then, like, …
Colonel Cooper and the Kazakh Eaglers
Colonel Jeff Cooper was a crusty old marine, shooter, and writer, one of the most influential firearms thinkers of the twentieth century. He wrote an enormous series of entertaining and informative essays, observations and quips called his Commentaries, a sort of proto- gunblog. But he could be a bit set in his ways, at least …
Superior Scribblers
The Atomic Nerds have given us a Superior Scribbler award. We are touched and honored. LabRat said of us, in part: “A fascinating variety of experience, and if they have a common thread it’s rampant individualism and a curiosity in and respect for nature and those who live with it, as opposed to those who …
Sunday Links
Nagrom has an essay on ranch life, cowboy music, and an encounter with one of the greats. Paleontology, real and not so: Darren discusses the new long- “tailed” birdlike fossil (and tells us that some of its more obscure details are interesting); and shows us how certain Native American art resembles a hypothetical giant earthbound …
Links & More– (Mostly Bio Stuff)
Glad to know Matt weathered this storm– let’s hope they do as well in the coming one(s). Reid is up to his ass in metaphorical alligators but is well and we hope for his return soon.I am now writing three more (long) chapters for my at- some- time- to- be- revealed project that has been …
Fun Stuff plus
From Annie H: the new duck stamp, because of a mistake (?) by the contractor tells you to call a phone sex line. Camera trap codger finds himself attacked as a threat to wildlife. No, really! Mrs Peculiar links to the trailer for new Chthulhu movie (though the gay romantic subplot probably has the omni- …