Reid found this. Sounds satirical but I assure you I have seen worse in Mongolia, not to mention Kenneth Tynan’s legendary Spanish one he cites in his 50’s bullfight book Bull Fever… (better than Death in the Afternoon- improbably, I have two first eds, one signed, totally by accident…)
Tag: Random Weirdness
Image query
David W in Texas, an old falconer like me, sent this unsourced image. In it, a slightly stylized eagle appears to be attacking a human, while the nose of a tazi just enters lower left. Anybody out there who can translate the title or tell us anything about it? (Style but not subject of art …
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Best Product Description: “Icelandic Beer Made From Smoked Whale Testicles”. Really. “We started last year with our first whale beer, Hvalur 1. The health department didn’t want us to produce it at first, but we were allowed to. The beer used whale meal as an ingredient, and it was something new for Iceland. It sold …
Links II: Three videos
What would you do if a a wolverine dug you out of a snowbank? A rescue wolverine? The only person I know who survived an avalanche (I know a few who were killed) was my late father- in- law, Libby’s dad Ken Adam. I would have loved to ask him that question… Who says sea …
Boone?
Lane Batot and Jim Cornelius seem to think my present blog photo resembles a portrait of Daniel Boone by Audubon. I am complimented, I think… UPDATE: Lane says it is this one by Chester Harding. While it is more complimentary, I think the first resembles me more!
Truth
Actual headline from this morning’s Wall Street Journal:
Useful phrase
From the great Victorian explorer and translator Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: “Lying like a publisher.”
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.
Truth
From Jack:
Hare vs Hound…
Tim Gallagher asked if I had ever seen an image of a hare chasing a hound, as in this portrait in stone from a Roman fort in England. Well, I hadn’t, but Herb Wells has…