The Idles of March
Looks like another slow march around these parts, well, more of dirge really. Hence the carrion which seems as reasonable a metaphor for the rancid stench that’s been lately gathering on the blog...
View ArticleBear Flag Republic
Don’t know about you, but I find it terribly difficult to stay on task while visiting museum collections. Sure, I’ve got the 20 page print-out of specimens I’m supposed to measure. And, sure I deeply...
View ArticleFaces of Death
Chris Norris recently deployed the term “asteroid porn” for a certain gratuitous style employed by those writing about meteoric catastrophe: Here is a brief summary of a typical piece of asteroid porn....
View ArticleFaces of Death 2
Last time, we looked at various portraits of a weak-ass minor planet getting effed up by our atmosphere before getting royally bitch slapped by our lithosphere. Anyone with a passing interest in...
View ArticleLaser Bird
north american golden throated laser bird -unforgivable realness / Valin Mattheis © All rights reserved. An innocent enough harbinger of urban destruction, the appearance of the golden throated laser...
View ArticleWhen Bacula Attack
A few weeks back I invited microecos readers to identify this. Almost immediately, and simultaneously, Mo and Valin correctly deduced that it was a baculum, otherwise known as an os penis or “penis...
View ArticlePhoning it in
Originally uploaded by Anauxite A bit distracted today, for reasons that will become clear. But I didn’t want to deprive you of your weekly taxidermy dose, so I ducked over to the UC Davis Museum of...
View ArticleCatamount
As seen at Sturgeon’s Casino in bustling Lovelock, Nevada. This guy looked a lot more lively than many of the patrons….
View ArticleThe Last Tapu
All images from the fantastic collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library Got to wondering why my four-year-old post about the Huia, a fascinating and sadly extinct bird from New Zealand, was...
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