After a dinner of fine grass-fed steaks cooked on the grill, (about as good as steak can get, and I’ve had Kobe as well as Smith and Wolensky beef), we ventured out for a wildlife watch. These of course can be disappointing, but as we drove over the dirt road […]
We took a long and rough ride over stony roads to make it all the way to SK Ranch in Bynum Montana, arriving about suppertime. We reached the crest at the top of a bluff and looked down on the ranch, about 100 yards away, in front of a great […]
I met Dave Trexler today, and he told me some scary stories and showed me some dinosaur bones, just lying there out in the chaparral of Montana. We were in a bar called JD’s Wildlife Sanctuary, a classic biker joint with dollar bills plastered up all over the low ceiling, […]
Last night my cell phone rang its groovy new ringtone at 9:30 pm. It was Ernie Barker from Triple J Wilderness Ranch in Augusta Montana. He was calling to advise me about boots. “Don’t wear boots with those lug soles,” he said. “They get caught in the stirrups.” He told […]
I joined a group of about 30 citizens to talk about a big issue in Deerfield tonight. On November 16, the town will own a 16-acre piece of land in the center that was once a pickle factory. Now they want to form a steering committee to find out what […]
Sports photogs are a famously independent bunch. They do what they do and they don’t wanna be hassled. Now the NFL is driving their association crazy with a new scheme: Starting this fall, every shooter on the sidelines of NFL games must wear a red vest with a Canon and […]
I walked over and said hello again to the proprietors of the new market in town. It’s called the Garden City Market, and Sami is one of the owners. I told her that she could pick up our WiFi signal at her store and that we are all grateful that […]
In an ingenious nod to the forces of capitalism, Sprint will soon embed its logo onto a song so that illegal downloaders will see its logo when the song plays. It’s an ingenious way to beat filesharing–the music industry’s bugaboo. The NY Post reported today that on Atlantic Records tracks, […]
Last night we enjoyed a particularly poignant NetFlick. It was called Kolja, and it told the story of a Czech bass player who married a Russian woman for money and ended up without her but with her 5-year-old boy. The languages, of course, were obtuse, a combination of Czech and […]
It had to happen some day. The tallest and the shortest man in the world met face to face. Here Mr Xishun shakes hands with Mr Ping Ping, he’s 7′ 9″ and Ping measures up at 2’4″. The little guy is Mongolian and Bao Xishun, is a herdsman from Chifeng, […]
Whenever the subject is music downloads, you hear the name “Big Champagne.” These are the folks who keep track of every music fileshare, and now they’re providing radio stations with lists of which songs are illegally downloaded the most, to help the stations play the songs people want to hear. […]
I’m back in NYC where a light rain is falling on an internet cafe where you have to shovel dollar bills into the computer to keep it going. I’m pleased with my day. I took an early bus and made it to the Italian Tourism Commission in time for most […]