A pair of Sarus Cranes standing in a field. The larger, male, bird has its wings up and head raised in a courtship dance while the smaller female bird is standing beside it, facing the camera. Scientific name: Antigone antigone Conservation status: Vulnerable

Another lifer. One of astonishing grace and beauty.

Sarus Cranes in their courtship dance. In India, they are symbols of marital fidelity, believed to mate for life and pine the loss of a mate, even to death.
Isn't that beautiful?

#birds #BharatpurBirdSanctuary #India #BirdsSeenIn2026

He made the same announcement in 2009 at the Beer Wars premiere in response to something I said to him. “I’ll never sell, he yelled.

That was me.

Agriculture of America: AOA Tuesday 4-21-2026 Tuesday on AOA, powered by Cenex Premium Diesel, we start the show with Ben Johnston, COO of Kapitus, who shares thoughts on the current state of the agriculture and overall economies amid war, inflat...

Speaking of meat … and The Price of Plenty, here’s an interview I did with Jesse Allen at the Agriculture of America podcast.

Yes. It may even be on film. The film was Beer Wars and this was the the post-premier on-stage portion of the evening. If I remember correctly, Sam C. said the same thing but w/less drama.

He was sitting across from me on the stage, if I recall. I said something, if I recall, and he jumped up, waving his arms around, announcing that he'd never sell out.

Oh, god, that's perfect! What's it from?

oh, thank you. THANK YOU. HUGE HUG.

away to find hanky....

A young man is standing in front of a machine that consists of a rotating drum that is covered with what looks like some kind of gritty material. He's holding a bird against the drum, which is partly covered by its now removed feathers.

The commercial meat-poultry industry was born in 1920s, and designed to mimic the factory, the widgets being hens + eggs.

This 1941 electric plucker could clean as many as 1000/birds a day. LOC

The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat in America, available everywhere.
Excerpt: maureenogle.com

An 1898 photos of men and boys stuffing sausage casing at an Armour processing plant in Chicago. One guy pulls the long snake from the casing machine and the others tie them off into separate sausages. The sausages are draped over a horizontal rod. It's hard to tell exactly what they're doing but in effect they're tying the links. The youngest person looks like he's ready to haul away a section of sausage-laden horizontal rod.

Here's how the sausage was made. Literally.

Men and boys filling sausage casings at an Armour plant in Chicago, 1898.

The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat In America. Available everywhere in four formats.

Read an excerpt at maureenogle.com

In my mind, I can still see Greg shouting that he would never sell out

The front page of the Star Tribune on April 22, 2016, following the passing of Prince.

No surprise, my small town library has none. Sob.

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

I just spit on my keyboard

The Second Coming? We know who the Republican nominee will be in 2028 . . . if he wants it.

The Rs didn’t go to all this trouble to give it up in 4 years. Nor, says @jvl.bsky.social, did the Trump family. Interesting twist.

In any case, man, they are playing us so hard….

And so history repeats itself.

Or so say I. Resonates because just revised the section* about survival strategies in US beermaking c. 1950-1965.

*revising my 2006 beer book for a 20th anniversary edition.

Try Red Gold (if you can find it where you live).

End times, people. End times.

Long line of folks waiting to see Tom Steyer speak in Santa Barbara last week.

I went to see Tom Steyer's town hall in Santa Barbara last week. The line wrapped around the block before the doors even opened. Standing room only inside. Hundreds of people couldn't get in.

Whether or not the media is saying it: Steyer has momentum. And I was very impressed. THREAD!🧵

Fascinating piece here from @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social

Who knew??

Rod Serling stands in a glowing doorway, surrounded by the title Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, by Alan Sepinwall

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

HA! You’ve got a point.

And may I say I’m a fan of your work?

We are at 628 as of now, would love to hit 630 before the end of the weekend.

For fuck fucking sake.

Are we EVER gonna get past this?

I’m a Maine Reporter Who Went to High School With Graham Platner. Here’s What Explains His Success. In 2002, my classmate Graham Platner ran for student-body president of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. I remember watching him in our auditorium debate his fellow candidates. He was ...

I’m vaguely aware of the Maine senate race. This is a useful take.

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

dancers and guitarists play at an outdoor cafe. a waiter walks past the dancers as they twirl

Dancers in Seville
Martin Munkacsi, 1930

Bluebells in the village woods this evening.