Posts tagged as Bears
Thing Probably A Bear
Is this blurry image, which almost certainly shows a bear loping through a river while carrying a fish, proof that the woolly mammoth still exists? Sure, why the hell not.
Sad News, Bear
Here you will find some upsetting footage of a bear with burnt paws. Get well soon, bear! I really am pulling for you. :(
The Musical About Grizzly Adams And His Bears
In 2008, Ars Nova, a small theater and development space on the far west side of Manhattan, staged a pirate/puppet rock musical called Jollyship the Whiz-Bang. The play was given a limited run, but was extended several times, revived in 2010's Under The Radar festival, and shot its co-creator, Nick Jones, into the peculiarly theater notoriety of someone who's been praised in The Times for "demented brilliance." First disclaimer: I was friendly with some Ars Nova people, and have a deep, weird love for puppets, so volunteered to spend a day helping paint puppets for Jollyship. Second disclaimer: I eventually saw Jollyship, I think, five times. Third disclaimer: I was working at an off-Broadway theater at the time, one that had no idea what to do with this sort of wonderful weirdness, but I ended up reading some of Nick's other plays. One was a musical about an architect that falls in love with his building (or maybe it was vice versa). There was also Straight-Up Vampire, a story of vampires and the American Revolution, set to the music of Paula Abdul. READ MORE
Bear Still Dead
Sure, why the hell not: "Knut, arguably the world's most famous polar bear, will be remembered as a dreamer."
What It's Like For A Bear
"The Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife fit brown bear with collar cameras, revealing new insights into their lives in the wild."
Do Bears Feel As Indignant As Rick Ross Sounds? Sure, Why The Hell Not
"Powerful, indignant, protective: that’s how a bear feels, and that’s how Mr. Ross sounds, as if nothing could possibly derail him, and everyone who walks with him will be safe." READ MORE
Korean Bears Think They're Korean People
"[North Korea's state news agency] reported last week that a family of bears who usually hibernate through the fierce Korean winter had been seen lamenting Kim Jong-il's death. 'The bears, believed to be a mother and cubs, were staying on the road, crying woefully,' it said." [Via]
Hand Ursine
"A hand found Saturday afternoon in Carroll County by a bicyclist most likely is that of a bear, not a human."
Michel Pastoureau, 'The Bear'
The best present I got this Christmas was The Bear: History of a Fallen King, by Michel Pastoureau, a French cultural historian previously unknown to me. I'm about halfway through, and while it can get a bit academic at times, I have found it wildly fascinating. It is less about bears as bears than it is about the way the Church, as part of its campaign to eradicate pagan ritual, deposed the animal as king of the beasts. (You'll find a much more informative review here. Anyway, if bears and Christianity and cultural histories translated from French are your thing, consider this a recommendation.
