Andy McGlashen

@amcglashen

Senior Editor at Audubon magazine. Michigander in Chicago. He/him.

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Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· 12d

Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts of the Great Highway

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· 13d

My man

A picture of a guy with the text:

Alf Joint
Village Thug/2nd Mechanic
(2 episodes, 1967)

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· 22d

Tonight was my first time at Wrigley Field and the Tigers looked so utterly feeble that my brother could sense, from more than 200 miles away, that a McGlashen was somehow involved.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· 27d

And Bitchin Bajas

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· 27d

Natural Information Society tonight at Constellation.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· 28d

Not the point, but what a glow-up!

Thomas Massie a few years ago, clean-shaven, boyish, and kinda dorky in glasses.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 14

Definitely very metal, but consider also the Bearded Vulture www.audubon.org/magazine/bon...

For reasons biologists still don’t understand, Europe’s adult Bearded Vultures dye themselves a reddish orange by taking dips in naturally-occurring iron oxide-rich waters.

The raptor’s most distinguishing feature, however, is its unusual diet. While most vultures scavenge carrion meat, Bearded Vultures generally eschew flesh. They are the only birds in the world that eat primarily bones, which they scavenge from the carcasses of sheep, cattle, deer, ibex, and other animals.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 11

Somehow @kmaiolatesi.bsky.social and I have been married 18 years today. “We have stood from year to year before the spectacle of our lives with joined hands.” —W.C. Williams

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 11

I happen to be reading John McPhee’s LEVELS OF THE GAME about a match between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. It includes this horrifying and, at least to me, inscrutable joke from Ashe’s father (also named Arthur).

Humor spills out of him wherever he goes. He goes into a hardware store during the hunting season and asks for a three-gun rack for his car. The salesman says, "Why do you need a three-gun rack, Arthur?" and the answer is "You always need a third gun so you can shoot your wife."

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 9

Some tundra flowers in Nunavut.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 9

www.thebulwark.com/p/an-america...

His son also remarked, “My father was always a strong man and never wanted us to know if he was in pain. He never complained.” Our current government, by contrast, is led by weak men who constantly complain, and who benefit from exploiting other Americans’ weaknesses and anxieties. Our current leaders talk endlessly about American exceptionalism, while turning us into an unexceptional country presided over by thuggish apparatchiks.

I dare say Ronald Salgado Araujo was a better American than they are.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 7

Many ways to live on this planet

A newspaper clipping shows a man in sunglasses with the text: Hunters take on seal-skinning challenge

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 7

In Nunavut

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 6

Oh hey

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 5

Update:

A scientist holds a grumpy-looking nestling with a tuft of fuzz on its head.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 1

LOL, @aweiss.bsky.social and the @westernpriorities.org crew had a perfect Teddy Roosevelt quote teed up for the big guy's North Dakota trip.

Trump delivers rambling remarks at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening in North Dakota

DENVER—President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum today attended the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.

Trump delivered rambling remarks that briefly touched on aspects of Roosevelt’s legacy—conspicuously leaving out his conservation achievements. Trump and Burgum have worked to systematically dismantle Roosevelt’s conservation legacy, from attacks on the Antiquities Act, which Roosevelt signed into law, to the U.S. Forest Service, which Roosevelt created to protect America’s natural resources from commercial exploitation.

The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Executive Director Aaron Weiss:

“President Trump should have heeded Teddy Roosevelt’s advice before delivering that rambling mess of a speech: ‘There are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting.’

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jul 1

I’ll be out of the country for the 4th/250th—can’t say I’m torn up about that—so before I go, here is my appropriately rough, ragged, and incomplete tribute to our still-beautiful country.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jun 28

👍🏻

I googled “what is Pynchon V about” and the AI result says “V. by Thomas Pynchon is a satirical, postmodern Wikipedia article”

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jun 26

Yesterday I met the most badassedly named plant in the game: RATTLESNAKE MASTER

A spiky plant against a backdrop of vegetation

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jun 22

Chicago is looking quite nice today.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jun 21

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Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jun 13

Jolene had her first swim in Lake Michigan today. Probably also her last.

Andy McGlashen@amcglashen· Jun 10

An embarrassingly mealy-mouthed answer here to a @nytimes.com reader question in The Morning newsletter. Providing some context is good, but the response should have started with, No.