Bird Mail 035
Hey, hi, hello.
In case you have forgotten, Bird Mail is a only-on-Tuesday newsletter of internet ephemera, collected for you by me, Bruce Layman. Normally, Bird Mail is not all about birds, but this week it is. If you find this absolutely fowl, or if you get too many emails, you can unsubscribe and fly the coop at any time.
As I said, this issue is actually all birds. I have been working on a different issue, but each time I sit down to put things together and write, I find something else to weave in and it gets a bit longer. I want to develop it more before it lands in your inbox. So for now, that one will have to wait.
We begin with a simple question: What bird are you most like? I am most like an American Kestrel. If you take the quiz, reply with the bird that you are most like. I would love to get an unofficial survey of the Bird Mail club.
The winners of the 2020 Audubon Photography awards were just announced and the photos are stunning. I looked through my collection of photographs to find something worth sharing and found a blurry picture of Jan Fabre’s “Shitting Doves of Peace and Flying Rats” which is featured at the top, which I stumbled upon in the Louvre back in 2008.
As a child I loved the weird stories, pen and ink lines, and various pseudonyms of Edward Gorey. I had Gorey calendars on my walls and the abecedarian Gashlycrumb Tinies among many others in my bookshelf. I recently came across The Osbick Bird via the inimitable Maria Popova.
That is all for this week. Keep your eyes up and look for the birds.
Your friend,
Bruce
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