Thursday, June 07, 2012

A Few Links From Me, Too

Walter Hingley sent this link to John Hawks writing on the kurgans, the icy tombs of the Altai. I hope Reid has time to say more, as he can put them in context more than I can. Actually I have seen quite a few, in the Altai region of Bayan Olgii in far western Mongolia.



More Central Asia: dispatch from Almaty and Bishkek in the current Paris Review. There is apparently a Walton Ford portfolio too, but I haven't seen it.

Ray Bradbury dies in LA at 91 after a long productive life. If memory serves he was the... object, I guess, of an amusing song here. More at the Mallard of Discontent. Did you know T. H. White was a fan of his in the fifties?

Our friend Neutrino Cannon doesn't really like revolvers, but this ode to the snub- nosed .38 sent by Chas makes me wish I still had one-- or, maybe, the prettier if more expensive J Frame Smith Model 60.

A YouTube of wolf coursing in Czarist Russia! Thanks to Zac Eads.

PETA would not approve of the above, but I wonder if some of their sentimentalist followers will approve of their move into porn? I LOVE the headline.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would love to see the wolf coursing but as I am not a member of UTube and do not want to sign in it will forever remain a mystery. I guess I'm just an old senior that doesn't want Facebook, Twitter, U-Tube or other such social media, that seems to be questionalbe usage of my time.

Anonymous said...

Would love to see the wolf coursing but as I am not a member of UTube and do not want to sign in it will forever remain a mystery. I guess I'm just an old senior that doesn't want Facebook, Twitter, U-Tube or other such social media that seems to be questionalbe usage of my time.