Do you believe that these guys have Bigfoot in a freezer? As Tam says: “The find of an Appalachian Bigfoot is especially amazing, since the critter has to be stealthy, living in a neck of the woods that has had sports stadiums and outlet malls since neolithic times.” I mean, I love cryptzoology as well …
Tag: Random Weirdness
U and Non- U American Accents
Megan McArdle at the Atlantic has a post up on the all- but- vanished “Mid- Atlantic accent” of the old Eastern WASP upper class. This interests me because I remember it well, but I have the sense that it is virtually extinct. (Think George Plympton; William Buckley’s was a variant but very idiosyncratic.) Betsy Huntington …
Enjoyable/ Interesting Links
Prarie Mary sent me pics of a white eagle picked up in Colorado, and now Carel Brest Van Kempen has has blogged it, along with other white raptors. Some feather whiteness appears to be deleterious– it might not be a good idea to release it again. The fearless Annie D. somehow found these amazing octopus …
Trinity
Stingray has an un- PC post on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb here. I wrote to him: “Slightly irrelevant tale: I was at the site (October opening I think) and some hippies had set up an altar with a Shiva figurine on it (“I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds”.) “A ranchy- type …
More Links
Patrick’s link in the comments below got broken but I think THIS may have been it. In my youth I once had a romance with a woman whom I initially impressed by telling her she reminded me of Emma Peel. Unfortunately the resemblance was only to her looks… And (on a linked subject?): what is …
Links
According to this story in the Telegraph the most aggressive breed of dog is the dachshund. Lily would not be surprised– she is almost suicidally brave defending herself. Interestingly, Sir Terence Clark tells me that, while he was attending the Saluki Congress in Finland last week, a report was given that Germany has passed new …
Bo Diddley RIP
Coming back from a sort of bloggish lunch in Albuquerque with frequent commentors and dog- in- laws Paul and Nate, MDMNM of Sometimes Far Afield, his friend Amelia, and a baby hawk, we saw that the flags on the State Police hq near Socorro were at half mast. Turns out the great old rocker Bo …
I’m baaack!– links & previews
Spent the last couple of weeks doing a proposal, outline, and sample chapters, for a book I hope will take me back to Kazakhstan. Let’s hope that this turns out better than the last (still in limbo.) But despite brokeness and worry some good stuff has been happening, to say the least. Not only have …
Quote of the Week
In Comments in the post “At War with ARistas?” Patrick writes irresistibly: “Aerial shots of the yard show some rubbish, which is not a good thing to be able to see from outer space (I’m just saying). “ I mean, I’m all for Yard Cars in Magdalena, especially as “Yuppie Repellent”, but I hear ya…
Hair
Recently rediscovered: not the caveman from the ad but yrs truly early seventies, giving a talk on hawks to schoolchildren. I WAS living in a coldwater beach shack….