DISQUS

Note to Audrey: If you'd like to see what a lot of those dried old weeds I pointed out yesterday look like in full bloom, scroll back through my Pine Barrens shots from last summer:

http://lord-whimsy.livejournal.com/tag/pine+bar...

Good to have you babies out, as always.

~W

PS to Josh: Bogs actually smell very nice in summer because of the cedars and the flowering plants like sweet pepperbush. Marshes are another story, especially at low tide.

I do wonder how many people actually get hit from the side, though. I've only been at risk from the rear, but then I haven't done much city biking.

I have to do that to my highwheel.

There was a Brazilian gentleman--possibly a local constable of some sort--who was found dead on the banks of an Amazonian tributary with a revolver by his side. Apparently one of these tiny candiru catfish got into this man, who knew that he had to cut off his penis in order to survive. Instead, he chose to shoot himself.

Missionary reports have episodes in which an Indian would scream, run out of the water and promptly cut his member off.

Makes ticks seem downright quaint.

Bravo--well deserved.

F**k fish!

I truly need some professional help. Thanks for the intervention.

By the way: Norm did wind up finding some nodding trillium on the other side of the trail.

Lisa RG: they are chipmunk eggs.

I'll take a whack at it. (Little known fact: I love shoot 'em up arcade games.)

Congrats to your friend. I know how it feels to work your tail off on a book and have it come out at last.

Dunno about you, but I take issue with the book critic's phrase, "fake rock n' roll'. All rock n' roll is inauthentic--that's the whole point! Think Dylan cared if he was being 'real'? Hell no--he used 'realness' as a mask. Even sincerity has to take the form of a pose in order to become art. Otherwise, it's just plain old life.

Hope you guys are enjoying the house!

Found this, and thought it might be edifying to other disembodied eyeballs:

A Crunchy Con Manifesto

1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.

2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.

3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.

4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.

5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.

6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.

8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.

9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”


Sounds vaguely Libertarian to me, but I've been spending a lot of time in swamps these days.

That's a beautiful little place, Mark. Great find!

Cute kid. Always loved that name.

Anyone up for going to a roller rink of grownup night? The rink in Camden has a gospel night. You know there's gonna be some fly outfits that night. Roller gospel!

Do you suppose when Cheney spits on a street, it looks like this?

I'm sure he''s a nice fellow, but he's mistaken. Authenticity is a sham and a pose. This man (posing in bare feet, as if that wasn't sending some sort of implied message about his 'down-to-earth' aesthetic) is either unaware of his artfice, or is being disengenuous.

There are two kinds of narcissism: the healthy kind that entails being a 'real fake' and inviting others to join in, or this crypto-fakery that takes itself too seriously to admit its own artifice. I don't trust it.

We just call those street nebulas.

Kudos to your sister Anneke--appearing in traditional print media feels like being immortalized in stone these days.

Interesting to discover that not all Schonevelds sport bushy facial hair--we'll have to update our field guide. You do share the same eyes, though.

That has to be my favorite shade of green. She'd evaporate in my den.

~W

Glad you made it to Chichen Itza. Looks like you both had a wonderful time!

Would love to hear all about it over vittles and wine.

Is it possible for Audrey NOT to be cute?

We were looking at an old victorian in Bridgeton at one point. The splendid isolation and proximity to the sea and marshes was sorely tempting.

Could feel my toes curl in my socks watching this. I had a similar experience in a pedicab once.

Beautiful photos. Knew kids like this back in the 80's. I wonder what ever became of them.

Been seeing this around, and there are little nuances you pick up each time. Great stuff.

Fax us your email address now!

Well, that just made our week. Congratulations to the both of you! It's rare indeed to see a couple so well matched. A long, happy life together!

Wonder what the decadent, preening anti-humanist pomo academics will say about this country's desperate attempt to act in accordance with liberal humanist values. If only we were so brave!

Speaking of great humanists, read this essay on Egon Freidell, a giant in the prewar Vienna cafe culture, now long dead. He was hunted by the Gestapo, and was forced to leap to his death from his window--and yet, shouted a warning to people below as he fell.

http://www.slate.com/id/2159926

Put down another payment on that bloody little bird today. Stopped by the antique store, and they seemed pleased at the coverage.

(Forgot about my early obsession with Adam and the Ants...so, yeah.)