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by Keaton

Weapon

page 106 of Weapon: a Visual History of Arms and Armor

Falcon Fever

Tim Gallagher, author of Falcon Fever, can Write. He has also lived life and noticed enough that he has some things to say. Here's an excerpt from pages 43 and 44 of the book.

"Jimmie White was a biker. . . . He was thirty-five years old when I met him--stocky and muscular with thinning reddish-blond hair, a ruddy complexion, and a broad Texas drawl . . . .

For several years he had owned a huge female golden eagle and hunted jackrabbits with her. . . . She was obviously a favorite bird of his, and he spoke of her often. . . .

He also recognized her potential to be dangerous. He would often carry her on a big curved T-perch, which was strapped to his body in such a way that the eagle sat with her feet at Jimmie's eye level, just a couple of feet away from his face. (This contraption helped reduce the fatigue that carrying a fourteen-pound bird on your arm would cause.) One day as she sat on her T-perch, Jimmie was blowing a referee's whistle and feeding her tiny tidbits of meat, trying to develop a Pavlovian association between the sound of the whistle and the food. Annoyed, she suddenly snatched the whistle right out of his mouth with her massive foot--so deftly and quickly that he was still blowing air out of his mouth for a couple of seconds after the whistle vanished. She could just as easily have taken his whole head in her foot and brought him thrashing to the ground, squealing like a dying rabbit."

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Keaton Strikes Again

Chasing the High

. . . I had become adept at manipulating people, and I felt I was in the upper echelon socially at school. I had friends in every category--popular kids, jocks, nerds, skateboarders, punk rockers, metal heads, and mid-grade kids who weren't popular or unpopular. I rode a skateboard, I listened to punk rock music, I had long hair, I did drugs, and I was athletic. I was a well-known, popular person. But I also knew that at least part of it was a sham. It was me saying things that people wanted or expected to hear, and doing things and manipulating people to do what I wanted them to do. I was playing a part, pretending to be something on the outside when on the inside, all I felt was emptiness. I continued to try and fill the emptiness with chemicals. (from page 22 of Chasing the High by Kyle Keegan)

Spring Hats

Google Images has an entire section devoted to spring hats from the archives of Life magazine. The pictures are amazing.

photo by Gordon Parks, 1950

photo by Yale Joel, 1962

photo by Yale Joel, 1962

Hemingway's Defeat

Talk Like Shakespeare Day

Celebrate the Bard's 445th birthday by visiting talk like Shakespeare.org, and spew insults like Shakespeare with the Insult Generator

Happy Earth Day!

Being the hippie-chick flower child that I am, I decided to write to all you Library Blog readers in celebration of the most hippie-friendly holiday: EARTH DAY!!!!!  So, I invite you all to join me and celebrate this amazing holiday and hug a tree, put a flower in your hair, and please keep off the grass.

-Sarah H.

Hamlet

The No Fear Shakespeare, Hamlet graphic novel has been donated by the CG Area Foundation Fund.