Donald's Blog

  This old house was only a few blocks from the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. All the neighborhood cats lived in the basement during the winter. The house has long since been torn down, but in 1972 there were AR2ax speakers in the front room, and a lot of good music was heard there.

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In the 21st century I am just as opinionated as ever, and I now have an outlet. I shall pontificate here about anything that catches my fancy; I hope I will not make too great a fool of myself. You may comment yea or nay about anything on the site; I may quote you here, or I may not. Send brickbats etc. to: dmclarke78@icloud.com.

 

February 17, 2017

I just love road trips

Normally I don't worry much about spam, as my email provider does a pretty good job of keeping it out, and I can look at it in my spam filter. But this week I received a piece of particularly filthy fake news, apparently from someone called Rebecca Owens, at 1182 Sharon Lane, Ste B16, Warsaw Indiana 46580, via the faceless folks at 616 Corporate Way, Ste 2-9092, Valley Cottage NY 10989.

What the hell, I'm retired, and if I get any more of this garbage I could get in my pickup and drive to Indiana and find out who Rebecca Owens is.

STOP PRESS: Today comes a scurillious item about Clinton from Adam Pollard, of Newport Beach CA, which I should read because "it might save your life." I object to finding this shit in my mailbox.

 

February 17, 2017

Just for the record

From Field and Stream, 1959:
 
"Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley’s Lover has just been re-issued by Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English game-keeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper.
       Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer’s opinion, the book cannot take the place of R. Miller’s Practical Gamekeeper."