tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87312388905407089992024-03-13T00:28:47.758-07:00HUNTINGWITHSUPERMODELSmike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.comBlogger1504125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-10592900664906029272024-03-08T18:16:00.000-08:002024-03-08T18:16:26.314-08:00NEW YORK GIRL<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPrgYvF3QSQ9ZBJAk-4o0hjPZMx_8rfFTb9rxJlP5CLWvJWiNGcKFMDvhpUiKXuCtKZN5vZb4Q70hCgnhmuhAS0D-xTtvzQNaXKkj9hS6pd18JVdEq2Ln0FqnHWovfvAWPeTxJ-eayDw6WlwLYht-21r7jMNS96nZD7OyClwqInEXIoIW1GBowanGyeXzu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1640" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPrgYvF3QSQ9ZBJAk-4o0hjPZMx_8rfFTb9rxJlP5CLWvJWiNGcKFMDvhpUiKXuCtKZN5vZb4Q70hCgnhmuhAS0D-xTtvzQNaXKkj9hS6pd18JVdEq2Ln0FqnHWovfvAWPeTxJ-eayDw6WlwLYht-21r7jMNS96nZD7OyClwqInEXIoIW1GBowanGyeXzu" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Photo: by R. Kern<p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-14739374057933543332024-03-08T18:13:00.000-08:002024-03-08T18:13:33.892-08:00WOKE AS FUCK<p> Ok. Before we get into this woke thing, let's catch up on the McCs. When last we left, Fariq was going in for an operation for something serious. Mario had suffered jail and a dog murder. Chuck was off on an art junket to Ohio and Sergio (the therapist) was on call in Florida. We good?</p><p>Since last we talked, here's what happened - Of course Mario wanted to kill the guy who shot his dog. Imagine if my neighbors shot Cheeky? What would I do? I'd not only kill them, I'd burn their house down, hack their facebook account, shit on their lawn, and say mean things about them on X (formerly Twitter). To Mario's credit, he did none of the above. But the clock was ticking. Fariq had his operation and remained laid up, Chuckle's flew to Ohio unconcerned about his brothers, and Sergio drove north to pick up Mario. Then shit went bad......again,</p><p>Mario, not in the best frame of mind, attacked his brother Sergio, broke his laptop and had to be committed when they hit Florida. Fariq can't drink or enjoy sweets in the near future. Chuck returned from Ohio heard all about his brothers' problems, went out got drunk, fell getting into his front door and broke his ankle. As Tessa escaped to London, Tristan is walking the dog and his father. That brings us up to date.</p><p>Now for the woke bit. Yesterday I received an email from little brother Rose. He informed me that the little village that we grew up in, Montgomery, NY, had declared itself an "unsanctuary" smudge on the map "city." Somehow this desperate, morally bankrupt, white-supremacist-lite, resolution had made national news. Of course I was interested.</p><p>So I posted a bit of Insta-outrage and felt better. Then, to my surprise I received a DM from Sailor Ricky Kern. I've known this cat for 40 years. You enjoy his potos on HWS. But we never talk. He "likes" me. I "like" him. All good. But somehow my pro-migrant post got under his skin. Here's our woke exchange: </p><p><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dude u probably haven’t been in manhattan lately but the east village is over run with migrants. Tompkins square is full of them like I mean hundreds of them hanging out. Believe me u don’t want to be a sanctuary city</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x18d9i69 x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1c4vz4f x1eb86dx x1sxyh0 x1nvil2r" role="presentation" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; animation-name: none !important; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 0; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: flex-end; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: calc(var(--mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding,8px) - 2px); padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"></div><div class="x78zum5 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli x15zctf7" role="none" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; display: flex; flex-direction: row-reverse; flex-grow: 1; flex-shrink: 1; 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--chat-outgoing-message-background-gradient: linear-gradient(#aa00ff, #0080ff); --chat-outgoing-message-bubble-background-color: transparent; --comment-background: rgb(var(--ig-highlight-background)); --messenger-card-background: rgb(var(--ig-primary-background)); --mwp-header-button-color: var(--disabled-icon); --mwp-hotlike-color: #4e4bf5; --mwp-message-list-actions-gap: 0px; --mwp-message-list-actions-width: calc(var(--mwp-message-list-actions-width,70px) + 3*0px); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-message-row-background: var(--messenger-card-background); --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background); --primary-text: rgb(var(--ig-primary-text)); animation-name: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; transition-property: none !important; z-index: 0;"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a x14ctfv" dir="auto" role="none" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--always-white); font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 20px; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When I lived there TSP was filled with english speaking homeless, with Daniel Rakowitz feeding butchered strippers to them. I don't think migrants could be any worse, just because they no habla. I'm not naive. The overall repressive, expensive, urban landscape is why I left in the first place. There's nothing for me there. Plenty of room up here. Let 'em know the welcome mat is out at the CLGM. Bring a tent. 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I've made so many "old friend" enemies, I'll resist engaging. We can still agree on the power of pussy. Let's leave it at that. Always open for a naked Palestinian migrant photo-shoot in the shul.</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1c4vz4f x1eb86dx" role="presentation" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; animation-name: none !important; background-color: var(--mwp-message-row-background); display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 0; justify-content: flex-end; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"></div></div></div><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1c4vz4f x1eb86dx" role="presentation" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; animation-name: none !important; background-color: var(--mwp-message-row-background); display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 0; justify-content: flex-end; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x78zum5 xdt5ytf x1iyjqo2 x2lah0s xl56j7k x1n2onr6 xpdutdq x1n327nk x1mpkggp" style="animation-name: none !important; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; flex-shrink: 0; justify-content: center; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; transition-property: none !important; width: var(--mwp-message-list-actions-width,70px); z-index: 10;"><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x6s0dn4 x78zum5 xzgd20w xl5lk40 xpdutdq x15zctf7" role="presentation" style="align-items: center; animation-name: none !important; column-gap: var(--mwp-message-list-actions-gap,0); display: flex; flex-direction: row-reverse; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; row-gap: var(--mwp-message-list-actions-gap,0); transition-property: none !important; width: var(--mwp-message-list-actions-width,70px);"></div></div></div><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1iyjqo2 x1eb86dx" role="presentation" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; animation-name: none !important; background-color: var(--mwp-message-row-background); display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: flex-end; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1r8uery x1iyjqo2" role="presentation" style="animation-name: none !important; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"></div></div></div><div class="html-div xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1c4vz4f x1eb86dx" role="presentation" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; animation-name: none !important; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 0; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: flex-end; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Haha we won’t ever be enemies. Yeah sometimes I forget to keep my mouth shut.</span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-65211605689746213942024-02-17T10:31:00.000-08:002024-02-17T10:31:39.067-08:00RICHARD "ZOOLANDER" TRAVIS (styling courtesy of my closet)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip_X8N7EohFq2-5xZwd47efP53V3q5FL50X3mawDNB_0IvivezAVMjWDu2S-kO3gIJ38Ai7udic36ApX1kypC-dJ_SCAlbUxDqGSBTnLxaM6A1sWoWWVBFeJNQHGFskn0VSu55GvlD26jkQh5nv3-W1Nr_jFWBULg-2N4ZwIwzh9Nqk5OokeccYLhdrbR9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip_X8N7EohFq2-5xZwd47efP53V3q5FL50X3mawDNB_0IvivezAVMjWDu2S-kO3gIJ38Ai7udic36ApX1kypC-dJ_SCAlbUxDqGSBTnLxaM6A1sWoWWVBFeJNQHGFskn0VSu55GvlD26jkQh5nv3-W1Nr_jFWBULg-2N4ZwIwzh9Nqk5OokeccYLhdrbR9" width="192" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-79835119322084064612024-02-17T10:25:00.000-08:002024-02-17T10:38:03.919-08:00OUTRAGED YET?<p> I apologize for my absence from HWS. Without the regular routine of deer hunting (even when nothing's moving) I tend to slack off on the verbiage in the off season. So here's the latest:</p><p>The month of January was spent doing drawings and obsessive little collages, huddled next to the woodstove. The spirit comes in fits and starts. I updated and published OPERATION LOVE GOD on blurb.com and continue to post my outrage at Israel's genocidal invasion of Gaza - much to many's disappointment and dismay - on Instagram. As far as writing the blog goes, I just haven't been inspired to make much of a stink. That is, until now.</p><p>Last night Shewho came over to the shack to use my washer/dryer, eat, drink, consume edibles and......you get the picture. Date night. She'd barely taken off her coat when she asked, "Have you heard about Mario's dog?" I hadn't. Let me give you a little background. Mario is Chuckles McC's brother. I've known him since he was in his 20's. He's brilliant <i>and</i> twisted (like the entire McC clan). Life hasn't been kind to Mario. Growing up in the lap of Greenwich, Ct. luxury, he blew off the PhD route, developed a bit of a drug habit, got shot in the ass on 14th St. copping dope, cleaned up, backslid, cleaned up again, and never really found his sweet spot. He's now old like the rest of us. These days Mario and his "rescue" dog live down river in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsyltucky. That's where the story takes place. </p><p>Last year Mario and his dog (a benign looking golden lab) came up against an angry neighbor. I don't know all the details but an altercation ensued with the dog biting the neighbor and Mario getting punched in the eye. The cops were called. The dog went off to the pound and Mario to jail for assault. The neighbor remained free. Months went by. Then by luck, the charges were dropped and Mario was able to retrieve his dog before it was put down. Happy ending. Not so fast.</p><p>As Shewho loaded up my washer with her soiled unmentionables she continued the story. "A couple of days ago Mario was walking his dog on a leash, on his own property, when the neighbor appeared, pulled a gun, shot and killed the dog.....still on the leash!" The washer churned. Holy shit! I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "ON THE LEASH?" I cried. Shewho nodded solemnly. Live Cheeky looked at the two of us in disbelief. (I always make sure the cat in my house is the correct Cheeky). The cat hates dogs but even Live Cheeky was aghast at this perfidy. "Meow." he cried in outrage.</p><p>As it now stands the neighbor (who is black) has been arrested and may or may not have posted the $30,000 bond. If you google " Pa. dog shot on leash" only Mario's brother Fariq's facebook post detailing the dog murder comes up. The neighbor's fb page has been deleted. I'm assuming he got a bit of hate for his despicable actions. These hillbillys up here don't need much of an excuse to unleash their inherent racism. Killing a dog on a leash is right up there with genocide. I worry for all concerned. To be continued...... </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-54001500853438440272024-01-12T08:37:00.000-08:002024-01-12T08:37:26.772-08:00ME and TRICKY<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR4qcSobe_4jGNjfQJQFzEdwPj1VMs9l46y6giw-JdF10Oe8yRQ0_MCLAQGYDRUy9-20lxJiGupvf4cdHL3JDALKNwLj0J57nqLkNkw1Qk3K3WbcHtrDDj8sNvqdUDieR7pRmCvpspr-Gh0d-D7v9SYkaRUhI94hEUdCJvkVze1RvCK2PxrIXP9y4XTADW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR4qcSobe_4jGNjfQJQFzEdwPj1VMs9l46y6giw-JdF10Oe8yRQ0_MCLAQGYDRUy9-20lxJiGupvf4cdHL3JDALKNwLj0J57nqLkNkw1Qk3K3WbcHtrDDj8sNvqdUDieR7pRmCvpspr-Gh0d-D7v9SYkaRUhI94hEUdCJvkVze1RvCK2PxrIXP9y4XTADW" width="180" /></a></div><br /> PHOTO: S. Birka Budde<p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-80637906626131099222024-01-12T08:34:00.001-08:002024-01-12T08:34:58.763-08:00WANTS 2 FLY<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCy2ZUBg6IeJz_HRvvPbAeiZhvkY0xKksAI0-pOLhsLNM03VybkOh90aBRIqB_9Di272By9Lh9xDxLshtNq9XJUv3eL2az2VC_DFtx3-jS-8moeEG3r_aYxhJ7NbxqjHGU8XEih0M0-d9njFGftMpN4qpvbp3JrHTcQpsVSrieaFMgHZOgioePY6HHffxl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCy2ZUBg6IeJz_HRvvPbAeiZhvkY0xKksAI0-pOLhsLNM03VybkOh90aBRIqB_9Di272By9Lh9xDxLshtNq9XJUv3eL2az2VC_DFtx3-jS-8moeEG3r_aYxhJ7NbxqjHGU8XEih0M0-d9njFGftMpN4qpvbp3JrHTcQpsVSrieaFMgHZOgioePY6HHffxl" width="245" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-70808785920722085142024-01-12T08:34:00.000-08:002024-01-12T08:44:41.634-08:00THE FAILURE OF LANGUAGE<p> A little over three months until turkey season. Jeesh! I don't know if I can make it. Between the snow and the cold I'm severely limited in how I can work. Forget putting pieces in the SS Park. The ground is frozen. I can't work large or comfortably in the unheated church or the shul. That leaves the living room, next to the woodstove. It's within this space that I do most of my writing and small drawings, paintings, and collages in the winter. After self-publishing 6 books this past year I've (temporarily) run out of ideas. So that leaves small, static artwork. I've chosen collage.</p><p>The large round coffee table from Wolf Lake now serves as both my pedestal and portal to the news (Aljazeera English and ICJ genocide proceedings) as well as my art production facility. The place looks like a very messy 19th Century Kindergarten classroom. Piles of<i> Farm Journals</i> and <i>Lady's Home Companions</i> from 1888 litter the floor. Tape, glue, white-out, scissors, paper and marijuana crumbs form a whirlpool of artsy/craftsy activity. I'll probably end up doing dozens (if not hundreds) of these collages and never show them. (see above).</p><p>As I watch South Africa's petition to ICJ in the Hague for a cessation of Israel's hostilities in Gaza under the heading and accusation of "genocide," while cutting and pasting butterfly wings, I can't help but notice how all parties concerned are struggling with the definition of terms. What's a war crime? What's a genocide? What's starvation? What's intent? What's ethnic cleansing? What's apartheid? Is it all that nuanced that the response of Israel to Hamas' atrocities of October 7th can in anyway be seen as "defensive" and "proportional"? The court will have to decide. </p><p>Last night's adjacent Thursday found us down in the valley at Judge Andy and Miss Polly's cidery to celebrate the Judge's birthday. Of course at some point the conversation turned to Israel, Gaza, anti-semitism, etc. It seems embedded in the fabric of all convos these days. I was reminded, once again, how pissed off (and disappointed) my own community is with me - the non-Jew, non-Christian Infidel with a big mouth, self-righteous opinions, and plenty of aggressive verbiage online. WTF? What's wrong with these people? All I continue to hear is how this person or that is angry with me. Thank goodness we (the Buddes and I) ended up at <i>The Dale</i>- try the sausage and peppers. Great Manhattans! Make sure you tip Chris the bartender. Sometimes I forget. It was too loud to discuss Hamas. </p><p>The band may have outnumbered the crowd but they (and we) didn't care. At one point I asked S. Birka if she'd seen Tricky Travis? Not five minutes later he appeared, grabbed the mic. and in his machine-gun rapid fire delivery cranked it up a notch. A little snoz-bloz and the place came alive. Yeah, words fail me (and the world) all the time. I try to be careful to have my facts straight and not ruffle too many feathers. It's not working. That's why I retreat and cut paper with my blunt scissors and glue stained fingers. It's much safer. </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-38390007828381727722024-01-10T08:23:00.001-08:002024-01-10T08:23:39.721-08:00$100 REWARD<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitBcO0GeMfhaHT9FUI6jeWOAFnW_x7kHNdp2uP78zat-Bl0lbbNpFlMmEiT3-_l3_47r6yJumcKYk8IUO4CpEVl8J276YZAU-xebcc4RHgDGxtkkPYNLC8FAEov59TiMfM2IP_YwMfGy8mISVNnvF0jKmpMcB75PfDodc_ArvqnxmoTml84IjASKdecVhX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="650" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitBcO0GeMfhaHT9FUI6jeWOAFnW_x7kHNdp2uP78zat-Bl0lbbNpFlMmEiT3-_l3_47r6yJumcKYk8IUO4CpEVl8J276YZAU-xebcc4RHgDGxtkkPYNLC8FAEov59TiMfM2IP_YwMfGy8mISVNnvF0jKmpMcB75PfDodc_ArvqnxmoTml84IjASKdecVhX" width="195" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-54617422669909699622024-01-10T08:23:00.000-08:002024-01-10T08:31:46.620-08:00PARKING LIKE A SETTLER<p> During that last snowstorm I pulled into the haphazardly plowed <i>Trading Post</i> without paying too much attention. As I got out of the truck I noticed the blue stripes demarcating a "handicap zone" where my truck trespassed. Disregarding the obvious rule breaking, I headed for the front door to buy a loaf a bread. That's when I ran into Pigpen Rothman who had parked right in front of me. My indiscretion had not gone unnoticed by Pigpen. "Parking like a settler, huh?" he accused me with a smile and a nod towards the blue zone. Busted.</p><p>Let's go back a bit. The first Osterhout settler sailed from Amsterdam, Holland to New Amsterdam, New Netherlands in the early Spring of 1653 on the <i>Spotted Cow</i>. He arrived in the Fall. The city was rocking. Like any Osterhout who has moved to town since, Osti #1 (Jan Jansen Van Oosterhoudt) probably double parked his horse outside the<i> Corlear's Hook Trading Post</i>, and after surviving a week in the city considered himself a local. Fuck the rules. I own this town.</p><p>Almost 400 years later and little has changed. The <i>"Trading Post" </i>is still there. When I was a kid you could still buy a gun, a fishing pole, a sack of flour, and a sandwich with your ax at the place. You didn't pay for your goods with a beaver pelt, but that's about the only difference. Now, in the year 2024 the word "settler" is also reappearing at the <i>Trading Post.</i> This time it's not the Colonial Dutch and English who are being referred to as such in the Blew Mountains, but the ever increasing local Orthodox Jewish community. Is such an assignation anti-semitic? Let's see.</p><p>After recently being accused in public of being anti-semitic by a vocal, local, Jewish woman, I have done plenty of soul-searching to make sure my baked-in bigotry and generational racism is acknowledged and in check. Check. Years of historical study and thousands of words written on the subject of genealogical depredations has given me a certain perspective regarding the Osterhout's interaction with different races and groups. Initially we marginalized and killed the Esopus/Lenape. We owned slaves and gave them the Osterhout surname. Who knows how we treated our "darker brethren." We killed (and were killed by) the French, the English and the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee. Eventually we adopted the identity of "Americans," secure in our position as original white, "Nativists," in a landscape of generational segregation and disinheritance..........not inclusion.</p><p>The joke of being accused of parking "like a settler" by a man who was raised Ultra-Orthodox, fought in the Israeli Army and disagrees with me (on almost every point) over what we are all witnessing unfold in Gaza was not lost on me. I got it. Here's the deal. I do what I do art (and parking) wise, say what I say on social media and publications, and generally operate in the world trying to be honest with myself. Since I don't have any specific religious faith or plan, I could care less what anybody else's is. Most anti-settler (Orthodox) sentiment comes from my Jew-ish friends and cohorts in the community. I wish these settlers would drive (and park) better and leave my art alone. That's it. I'm good with all the rest. </p><p>The (legal) Orthodox settlements that have spread out from Williamsburg to Monsey to Kiryas Joel to Lenape County over the decades will continue to increase, eventually becoming year round communities. This is our (and their) future. We are all settlers. Even the Lenape arrived here from somewhere else. When I installed a bare-breasted mannikin with a tree growing from her head in the Social Sculpture Park it was no more directed at the Orthodox/Settler community than an ax stuck in a log. Yet, both pissed off the Jewish and non-Jewish "settlers" enough that they consistently have taken it upon themselves to remove, displace, and cleanse the park of my art. My motivation is never to insult or instigate a particular group, but to display work that satisfies me sculpturally, outside of the market and institutions that are usually relied upon to validate it. This is one of my many limitations that I embrace working this way. All I ask in return is to be left alone. </p><p>I promise I'll try to be more conscious regarding where I park. I'd hate be called an "anti-handicap settler" on top of everything. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-29445615919729385362024-01-05T10:33:00.001-08:002024-01-05T10:33:55.378-08:00KKKLOWN DOWN<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCE1MoLqesJxlxnm_F6Hy-a-ihvNH0Bgs6mf5ytctWmJ9diXzDs0MXNfvU9ErS7YQaP14EIy4ZsvmUuIwW_d8ckcQcPJqLIbpWAftxpKsQB1YFX737FWi2Tp6u_Cseds-yKa6HHuYOLS7-aUFP_tWfvjnbdSzKEF3qkoJtr15BxDE-pmVMu1d-YuTJ-1N0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2457" data-original-width="2569" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCE1MoLqesJxlxnm_F6Hy-a-ihvNH0Bgs6mf5ytctWmJ9diXzDs0MXNfvU9ErS7YQaP14EIy4ZsvmUuIwW_d8ckcQcPJqLIbpWAftxpKsQB1YFX737FWi2Tp6u_Cseds-yKa6HHuYOLS7-aUFP_tWfvjnbdSzKEF3qkoJtr15BxDE-pmVMu1d-YuTJ-1N0" width="251" /></a></div><br /> Photo: Samm Kunce<p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-72857457237549837342024-01-05T10:33:00.000-08:002024-01-05T11:50:34.214-08:00ADJACENT THURSDAYS<p> "Adjacent can refer to two things that touch each other or have the same wall or border." That's how the internet defines it. "Adjacent" is how S. Birka Budde described HWS. "It's kinda personal....but...." It's the but that makes what I do relevant for community consumption. My adjacency to others in the community gives me a certain perspective that immersion would not. It's the sharing of these oft-crossed borders and climbed walls that makes experiencing it (and writing about it) worthwhile and a helluva lot of fun. </p><p>Now that hunting season, and the holidays are behind us Thursday nights at my house can convene again. Last night we had Pigpen Rothman, the Buddes, Judge and Miss Polly Brennan, and my new neighbor Gen F in attendance. Everyone brought whatever it was they were drinking or smoking and bags of munchies and dip for all. From 6:30 pm until a little after 10:00 pm we solved the world's problems, argued, laughed, ate, got loaded, and enjoyed our adjacency to each other. </p><p>Part of this confab was also to de-brief on New Year's Eve, comparing our drug-addled memories against each other. I remembered my Tourettes kicking in at some point and becoming quite gropie. If I grabbed your ass without permission I apologize. I can be quite handsy when I feel that comfortable <i>and adjacent</i>. As my old man was fond of saying when a local debutante would perch on his lap, "Safe as in the arms of Jesus." My mother would just smile and roll her eyes. </p><p>So if you are in the neighborhood on Thursdays, give me a call, or just drop by. Snow's coming and this is just the beginning of expressing our beautiful adjacency. </p><p> </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-20455179981384445162024-01-03T11:16:00.000-08:002024-01-03T11:16:22.843-08:00SOMETIME AFTER 1:00 am JANUARY 1, 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDLzQ84DFBp9XZs3Oe8tFFvupG-_pI03-I7-BVI8cS-Ks3l6qjoo34KjiIhO5QpJ95pbGoNUuQVxltF0JR-NCI_ZYuH3Hl1nr79INeNNqIGqcixhzp22XWdap0NgcQgV0Prd5ZMwDuWOWzt0x5bX5kWuS-TsXw19Eco-iEWohzT1bdIwdweosiEwD4BzxH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDLzQ84DFBp9XZs3Oe8tFFvupG-_pI03-I7-BVI8cS-Ks3l6qjoo34KjiIhO5QpJ95pbGoNUuQVxltF0JR-NCI_ZYuH3Hl1nr79INeNNqIGqcixhzp22XWdap0NgcQgV0Prd5ZMwDuWOWzt0x5bX5kWuS-TsXw19Eco-iEWohzT1bdIwdweosiEwD4BzxH" width="180" /></a></div><br /> Photo: Sara Budde<p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-77511143015059322222024-01-03T11:15:00.000-08:002024-01-03T11:15:11.750-08:00DAY ONE<p> After eating a gummy I got on the party bus at Majestic around 8:30 pm on New Year's Eve. This followed a full day of deer drives, a couple of sakes with Bird and the high of Savage dropping that buck. We were headed for<i> The Dale. </i>This is our Max. Fish, or Claire's, or Ma Betcher's, or Squirrel Cage. Pick one. The place was just starting to crank when the crowd wanted to get back on the bus and head on to Velma's (aka NG's) to bring in the New Year. I had an overwhelming curiosity regarding a packed night at <i>The Dale</i>. So I stayed put. I figured I could get a ride to the party at any time. The bus left.</p><p>For years in the late 80's and early 90's I worked at Max. Fish on Ludlow in the East Village. Chuckles McCormick and I bussed tables and held down the door. You develop a thick skin and contempt for the generally drunk public when you work at a bar or nightclub. Holidays are the worst. Halloween and New Year's Eve stand out as "for the tourists" and bridge and tunnel weekend warrior nights. It all came back around 11:00 pm sitting at the bar at <i>The Dale.</i> Great pizza and good drinks. Love the owners!!! Closed Tues. and Wed. </p><p>I was lonely (and very old) in a room full of partying, very happy, much younger, strangers. Had I made the wrong call by staying? But, instead of folding and giving into the malaise I remembered I had another gummy and a hit of Molly in my pocket. I waited on the Molly, ate the gummy and ordered another beer. By midnight I'd made a couple of new friends, kissed a strange girl, danced with Minnie and Real Estate Dave and got a ride to the party with Chris and Masha (Greg's brother). Then I ate the Molly. I remember that Chris was an International Yo-Yo champion and.........I don't remember much after that. There's some blurry pictures. I love this scene. In the end, I was happy I'd brought in the new year at<i> the Dale</i>. This crew is amazing!!!!! All LOVE for the New Year. 2024 is shaping up nicely. </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-91385858508715522942024-01-02T11:05:00.000-08:002024-01-02T11:05:49.055-08:00SAVAGE, UB, BIRD at Julie Picasso's (Formerly Ray Gilkey's)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1MqTMyW_E4vVD0VJ7o2h0vE1CFFDnqrA3lvaHtb6I0dpnNscaEVI1_eKGCvy3hzGxkIRUVRWWg0hZOoNvAN0vyxManB6WSo-bvGrEsA3ONXEq09dacZwV4EUFCGiU7MW3kdDkHsdC1nvJDnE7EKJvdKYp8o2V5wnj2vjgxwZcpaPmQuwSpSzv36QVIwGo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1MqTMyW_E4vVD0VJ7o2h0vE1CFFDnqrA3lvaHtb6I0dpnNscaEVI1_eKGCvy3hzGxkIRUVRWWg0hZOoNvAN0vyxManB6WSo-bvGrEsA3ONXEq09dacZwV4EUFCGiU7MW3kdDkHsdC1nvJDnE7EKJvdKYp8o2V5wnj2vjgxwZcpaPmQuwSpSzv36QVIwGo" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-28990852345499139942024-01-02T11:03:00.000-08:002024-01-02T11:18:55.189-08:00LAST DAY<p> As is our tradition, we put on New Year's Eve deer drives here in Glen Wild. UB, Savage and Bird were in attendance. The first leg was the push the cemetery between Little Bill's house and the cut. UB was in the stand. I was on the ground near Carlito's stand and Savage and Bird drove. 1O mins. in and I saw a deer coming my way. "Baaaaaaa....." I bleated 3 times. The deer stopped dead in front of me at 20 yards. I got on her and fired. "P-ssssss-ffffffttttttttttt......FUCK!" came the sound from where I was kneeling. The gun had misfired AGAIN! For some reason my bullets are infested with .45 ca. slugs mixed in the proper .50 cal. shot. While sighting the gun in I had had this happen, but disregarded the extra-easy slide down the barrel, thinking the powder had gotten wet somehow. Now I know if the bullet goes down too easy, it has to be removed. Next year I'm tossing out all my random crap and getting more serious with my loads. NEXT YEAR! It sounds so depressing and very far away.</p><p>The second leg to this drive was for Bird and Savage to drive the truck down toward Julie Picasso's. Bird would get off by Carlito's new driveway by the schoolhouse while Savage set up right above Ray Gilkey's grave in the cut. UB and I would then continue the drive around RNButch's ridge. I went low. UB stayed high. Late in the drive Bird shot. Then another shot came from Savage. The radio crackled. Bird missed his shot while Savage said he had 20 deer come by him. "There was a nice buck....." he reported "I think I hit him. He acted hit." We all converged on Savage's position. I never saw a deer.</p><p>We looked for blood. Nothing. Then UB found a tiny bit of hair. No longer than five minutes later UB spotted half the rack sticking out of the swamp. We were all elated and went to check out the buck. It was a nice 8 point with a golden rack, the same one I had missed days earlier. The unknown was now known. I had missed that buck clean. I must've rushed the shot and shot over him. I was relieved and haven't stopped kicking myself for missing that easy shot. Yet, in all honestly I can admit, that if I couldn't shoot that deer my second choice would be that one of my great friends or brother would shoot him. Thanks were given all around.</p><p>So that's it. The season is over. I have what's left of two deer in the freezer and one hanging. All three turned out to be bucks - one a button, one an eight, and the other a shed. Bird got a six. Savage also got three bucks - a six, a button and this nice eight. UB got skunked. It happens. We all had our fuck ups and successes. Savage never ceases to impress me with his shooting skills. After losing the sight in his right eye he taught himself to shoot lefty and can still knock down a running buck with one shot. I'm blessed to have such good, trustworthy, skilled, safe, friends to share my deer season with. Unless I get obsessed with another writing project I'll keep at it here at HWS. Who knows what the the new year will bring. Thanks for reading and Happy New Year to all my readers. Much love. </p><p>MO </p><p> </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-46024194487606348152023-12-30T16:18:00.000-08:002023-12-30T16:18:32.220-08:00KERN POLAROIDS<p> <img alt="polaroids cover.png" class="loaded" data-image-dimensions="644x864" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-resolution="500w" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5269565de4b0327032f65fbf/1702576502696-D8ITAFX55B1TSIH991VT/polaroids+cover.png" data-load="false" data-parent-ratio="0.7" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5269565de4b0327032f65fbf/1702576502696-D8ITAFX55B1TSIH991VT/polaroids+cover.png" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1703981857021_482" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5269565de4b0327032f65fbf/1702576502696-D8ITAFX55B1TSIH991VT/polaroids+cover.png?format=500w" style="font-size: 0px; height: 625.193px; left: 0px; position: relative; top: 36.4037px; width: 466px;" /></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-13717583754932976392023-12-30T16:06:00.000-08:002023-12-31T05:26:15.547-08:00ANTISEMITE DEER HUNTER?<p> What am I going to do when I can't escape to the deer woods? There's only two more days to the season, one of which I probably won't be functioning enough to climb a tree or handle a firearm. Today I hunted above the Hassidic's again. As I parked the truck at the curve in the road two eyes stared back, reflected in the headlights. I flicked on brights. She jumped then stopped and maintained the gaze. Had it been fifteen minutes later I would have tried to cap the gun. I saw nothing after that, getting out of the stand around 10:00 I drove home.</p><p>I had a bath, re-heated some coffee and decided to drive to Mountain Dale to check on the Social Sculpture Park, and get something to eat. All was status-quo in the park. A nice relief. Sometimes I go to <i>Mike's Quickie Mart </i>for a bacon, egg and cheese and sometimes I upgrade with a lunch at <i>Forage and Gather </i> (please note: business names appearing in HWS are correct. All others may not be.) I greeted my good friends Slick, Handsy and MS with smiles and hugs. This is all small town stuff. Slick said he was telling them about Piglet a guest's pit bull and how the dog latched onto his Alpaca's neck (animal not sweater) and was trying to kill it, and Slick fell down in the mud trying to save his Alpaca, and got shit spread all over his brand new clothes, as he had just come from a date with a girl who had converted to Judaism "on a hunch" that she was Jewish, even though her father was Protestant and mother was Catholic.....it's a long story and I didn't want to interrupt. </p><p>I hadn't seen MS since last summer. You remember the bare breasted sculpture and how it got toppled over and stolen? MS put the Borsht Belt Plaque up around the same time. She's all about the Jewish history of the Catskills. Then Oct. 7th happened. I think I called for a ceasefire on the 9th. I got Covid on the 14th. After that I don't remember much. Through the grapevine I heard that MS (and a few other Jewish friends) were hurt/pissed/outraged/disappointed at my overt pro-Palestinian stance that was not equally balanced with outrage over the atrocities of 10/7. Admittedly, I am never balanced. I'm an artist. I'm opinionated. Still, I like MS and the others and want to keep them as friends. But when I went in for a hug with MS I noticed a decided chill. I wasn't wrong.</p><p>What followed was a rather embarrassing display of.....what would you call it? "False assumptionism?" The word was "disappointment." Like a let-down second grade teacher MS took me to task (concerning the Gaza situation) for being "misinformed," "ignorant as to meaning of genocide....."no intent," and of all things an "antisemite." Now I've been called a lot of things in my life. "Stupid." "Braindead.""An obnoxious asshole." are just a few this month. But in all my years I can't ever remember anybody (seriously and repeatedly) calling me an antisemite. But MS did just that in <i>Forage and Gather, </i>right there on Mainstreet, across from <i>Mike's Quickie Mart</i>. Great soup and sandwiches!!! </p><p>I told this story to Junebug and Savage on the speaker phone. I hate that fucking speaker phone! Savage said I just had a knack for pissing people off. He's right. It's a gift. That doesn't mean I'm not sensitive and never EVER want to be considered an antisemite or racist, or a pedophile or Trump supporter. I'm a pretty good deer hunter, not a bad artist, a decent writer, and try my damnedest to see all sides of an issue. What Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinian people is a genocide unfolding in real time before our very eyes. The language and actions towards a stated goal of "extermination" was the same in the colonial United States towards the Indigenous population, in Turkey towards the Armenians, in Nazi Germany towards the Jews, etc., etc. ,,,,,,,,South Africa, Bosnia, Rwanda. These are only the most obvious examples. The only logical answer to the carnage is to stop the killing. </p><p>As always, this is only my opinion. Tomorrow we put on drives at my house with Bird, Savage and UB. None of us are Jewish, but we all have some very nice Jewish friends. The deer don't care one way or another.</p><p> </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-42838241905791693202023-12-29T15:16:00.000-08:002023-12-29T15:16:13.600-08:00PUSSY RIOT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyHLT8t4D_ONFEusbcsCGEh59cFVtsUj1MVsd1iqASHlQETNVqzuiC2Pw3By0Vlca1KHKLtsjmxg5wYYXUCByfjdgtvE70dK6gZuDK-OVy-uUwrdjdMWQhECxtOFx3SIjt9QnPRDUpF4KVK4Ane-Xmgk_N-CvzQmaHufN5R-QMtqfn0Qvz4jJXBBlD0TYQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2127" data-original-width="1565" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyHLT8t4D_ONFEusbcsCGEh59cFVtsUj1MVsd1iqASHlQETNVqzuiC2Pw3By0Vlca1KHKLtsjmxg5wYYXUCByfjdgtvE70dK6gZuDK-OVy-uUwrdjdMWQhECxtOFx3SIjt9QnPRDUpF4KVK4Ane-Xmgk_N-CvzQmaHufN5R-QMtqfn0Qvz4jJXBBlD0TYQ" width="177" /></a></div><br />PHOTO: Marianna Rothen<p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-3429497525229884512023-12-29T15:14:00.000-08:002023-12-29T15:19:30.607-08:00HIT OR MISS? BUCK OR DOE?<p> As the saying goes, "Can't eat horns." After searching for that buck for three hours yesterday my plan was to hunt the morning in the same stand. I wanted to give it one last look for a body. If I had hit that buck and could locate him the meat would still be good. It was a long shot.</p><p>I got in the stand around 7:00 am. No wind. No rain. Temps in the mid-forties. It was more like hunting October than late December. Around 8:30 I saw a deer moving my way. It moved like a buck. When I put the scope on it I saw it was a large single doe. At 30 yards directly below me I bleated it stopped with the hammer already back. She dropped with the shot. </p><p>As I walked up on the deer I marveled at how big she was. Then I saw the faint medallions on "her" head. She was a he. The buck had already shed his antlers. Was this the same buck I shot at yesterday? Had I shot his rack off? I don't think so. Yesterday's buck was wary and I think bigger. Still, I was incredibly thankful to have more meat and a quick kill shot. </p><p>After field dressing the deer and dragging it to the truck I made one last attempt at finding the buck. I crisscrossed the ridge once more looking for a white belly. Nothing. I think I must've rushed the shot and shot over his back. There's no way of being 100% sure but I think I missed that deer clean. I can live with that. </p><p>The count so far:</p><p>1. Wounded a nice buck the day before Thanksgiving. Found a piece of jaw bone. Never found the deer. Must've shot tree branch.</p><p>2. Shot an eight point the day after Thanksgiving. Dropped him.</p><p>3. Shot a button buck thinking it was a doe. Dropped him.</p><p>4. Missed a good buck with the muzzleloader.</p><p>5. Shot a good size buck thinking it was a doe. Dropped them. </p><p>P.S.</p><p>I found my car keys in the mud next to the woodpile. Three days left in 2023 deer season. </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-50115435945142264572023-12-28T15:58:00.000-08:002023-12-28T15:58:02.038-08:00UNCLE TED'S PANTS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuwqvETNJsYZFSH1UXqkDH7MSDslvaLaBji_jzUpjUmqRbLOfD6j9nFfdUMBRG3huVgG19JHoiYclidnJaFDSg5NSXHjvTixlHmxQQXqto0e5ubxNY5PQLXZIR8B-Aw6ZFMF4NX-4NHjfgds5CuakyMll0eibR80nFndiwtRy--gZaLuysmY-cG2Ikw5cc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="870" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuwqvETNJsYZFSH1UXqkDH7MSDslvaLaBji_jzUpjUmqRbLOfD6j9nFfdUMBRG3huVgG19JHoiYclidnJaFDSg5NSXHjvTixlHmxQQXqto0e5ubxNY5PQLXZIR8B-Aw6ZFMF4NX-4NHjfgds5CuakyMll0eibR80nFndiwtRy--gZaLuysmY-cG2Ikw5cc" width="184" /></a></div><br /> Photo: R. Kern<p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-79251451389810910232023-12-28T15:57:00.000-08:002023-12-28T18:38:45.063-08:00BAD LUCK, GOOD LUCK, THE UNKNOWN<p> Here's some examples:</p><p>Muzzleloader Season 2021: </p><p>Shooting from the cemetery stand on New Year's Eve I stop a doe with a "Bleeeeeeat!" I fire. The scope kicks back cutting a bloody half-moon from nose to eyebrow. Between the smoke and the cracked eye I have no idea which way the deer went or if I hit her. We find hair. Then a small drop of blood. Or was that mine? The three of us, Savage, Bird and I crisscross the cut. After about an hour Savage stumbles across the doe. The shot was right behind her shoulder. Perfect. She'd run 200 yds. I was unlucky to get cracked in the head and lucky to find the deer. If we had given up we would have been left with the unknown.</p><p>Muzzleloader Season 2022:</p><p>Hunting the stand above the Hassidic's I missed an easy broadside shot at a big doe around 8 am. A snow storm was predicted to hit around 1 pm. The deer were feeding where I was at. Around 10 am another doe presented a shot at about 50 yards. I could tell I had hit her and found blood in the snow. But then I lost the trail. I needed to find this deer before the storm hit. I walked in circles in the area I saw her last. Nothing. At noon I gave up. Around 2 pm I went back in the woods, completely dejected. It was snowing hard. I'd given up any hope of finding that deer. Then I almost stepped on her, already half buried in the snow. I hadn't looked in this direction. The unknown was now known, and I was joyous.</p><p>Muzzleloader Season 2023:</p><p>Hunting the same stand above the Hassidic's this morning in the rain. I woke up late thinking the morning would be a washout. When I couldn't detect raindrops the guilt got me out of bed at 6:45 am. No coffee. I threw on my hunting clothes and drove down to the curve in the road. I parked the truck and was in the stand by 7:15 am. Then it began to rain. I hadn't fired the gun during the entire (very wet) season. I said a little prayer for ignition, given the opportunity. Things looked bleak. Then, at 8:30 am I spotted a deer coming towards me through a bunch of deadfalls. At 200 yards i could tell it was a buck.....a nice buck. Then I lost him. I raised the gun. Fogged scope. I pulled out my napkin and cleared it. It was only a matter seconds before the buck was standing, head up, facing down the hill, 100 yards broadside. A few more steps and I wouldn't have a shot. I settled the crosshairs on his shoulder and fired. KA-BOOM! My prayers were answered.......well not entirely. All I saw was smoke. When it cleared the deer was gone. Had I dropped him? I climbed down from the stand without reloading. The rain was coming down harder. No deer. No hair. No blood. How could I have missed? I have no idea which direction the deer ran. I searched for hours. Nothing. Forget blood. It's been raining all day. Tomorrow I'll expand the search area towards Julie Picasso's, just looking for a body. If nothing else, the two previous years have taught me a hard lesson. Never give up. Now for the unknown.<i> To be continued.... </i></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-51373961631671388262023-12-27T06:01:00.000-08:002023-12-27T06:01:10.723-08:00REMOVED<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaTv91gouS8FcQR9JKv0fH3OsAzonW3hU2su_NUAkz1GUSr_HMVKIpFNuQlxPzCBJI5Ic-9OODN9_Za4gNLbNRui65cBfV9QqVCOk0LyOdVShssiLV8_YepVARcrFAq4QBeBk1vlH7lTlC0rvioRfOkCYocy_c4n2VqlRqiifvyIwwQWy6bRBUmuwWKaeS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="481" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaTv91gouS8FcQR9JKv0fH3OsAzonW3hU2su_NUAkz1GUSr_HMVKIpFNuQlxPzCBJI5Ic-9OODN9_Za4gNLbNRui65cBfV9QqVCOk0LyOdVShssiLV8_YepVARcrFAq4QBeBk1vlH7lTlC0rvioRfOkCYocy_c4n2VqlRqiifvyIwwQWy6bRBUmuwWKaeS" width="189" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-59759532412583956172023-12-27T05:58:00.001-08:002023-12-27T05:58:55.119-08:00X-CALIBER<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKkbwWPE_vcWzN79wS-4w-7pvL3WWk0PnFk7AzdAk6CaB_k3EMSdIcplfUjxsjsI3Xx7zeNMFiisA5rVuiNAu5sH8YMoLYY2pVWDBBJGmNvVWx2TA6Es5wT1bMHUBhac6GGGunP2Wg8lg5jKhGa55ywtQq-aDtaAPUsdF30KQfzEePRf7tyF9dZ52bKxVc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="868" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKkbwWPE_vcWzN79wS-4w-7pvL3WWk0PnFk7AzdAk6CaB_k3EMSdIcplfUjxsjsI3Xx7zeNMFiisA5rVuiNAu5sH8YMoLYY2pVWDBBJGmNvVWx2TA6Es5wT1bMHUBhac6GGGunP2Wg8lg5jKhGa55ywtQq-aDtaAPUsdF30KQfzEePRf7tyF9dZ52bKxVc" width="230" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-889444679029785622023-12-27T05:58:00.000-08:002023-12-27T05:58:14.528-08:00THEIF<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh-tczrvx6kmM9rg-__hsWNa944Qe04LjSbuUo0JLWCAjKCBO-M1DEY92wiyXWjPIW7VFP0oWyZuGXDCjuyJWrAqvMYRp-iwMN8reZ2SJ5GlXd1J1Ch1-uRLIGSsjVkRWo3wsCu-YzyT3UPznd9bK-rWSXkukov6GRyHoh9zwTbeFpGT4xaVnjMNcG2oqs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh-tczrvx6kmM9rg-__hsWNa944Qe04LjSbuUo0JLWCAjKCBO-M1DEY92wiyXWjPIW7VFP0oWyZuGXDCjuyJWrAqvMYRp-iwMN8reZ2SJ5GlXd1J1Ch1-uRLIGSsjVkRWo3wsCu-YzyT3UPznd9bK-rWSXkukov6GRyHoh9zwTbeFpGT4xaVnjMNcG2oqs" width="180" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8731238890540708999.post-88423397558295609382023-12-27T05:55:00.000-08:002023-12-27T06:05:51.480-08:00HUMANITARIAN PAUSE<p> What the UN can't do in Gaza, the DEC has no problem instituting in the NY deer woods. The deer got a break from hunters from Dec. 19-25. Yesterday we were back in the stand.</p><p>Without hunting to occupy my manic side I went back into the Social Sculpture Park with some new work. One piece is called THEIF. In a rather obvious reach out to Little Bill (and others) the piece is a hand and arm from a mannikin resting on a log with an ax driven between into the top. It's a shout out to the practice of cutting one's hand off for theft. Get it? </p><p>Well it only took 24 hours before I got an email from the Dale (my friends policing the park). They included a picture of an angry woman stalking across the park. This woman (who lives across the street) is well known in town. Spotted trying to wrench the ax from the log, when told it was "art," she screamed "IT'S DANGEROUS!" The next morning the ax was gone.</p><p>Usually this would piss me off. But when I saw the piece without the ax I realized that the crazy, old, bag had done me a solid. THIEF looked much better without the ax. So, instead of replacing it I bought another ax and designed and installed X-CALIBER (see above). Two pieces are always better than one. Thanks for the curatorial edit Mrs. Schimdt. Let's see how long this lasts.....</p><p>The other thing that was occupying my time was a steady diet of Aljazeera English's coverage of the Gaza genocide and various relevant postings on Instagram. These pro-Palestinian (sometimes nipple displayed) posts also became problematic as the pause continued. On Xmas day I posted an old invite for Pussy Riot Church with a solidarity reach out to the artists of Gaza and Russia. It was immediately removed. The reason for the removsl was "sexual content." Huh? Mystery Girl's nipples had sent off alarms across the internet. I appealed. My appeal was also rejected. How appropriate. I've been silenced AGAIN for another pair of nipples. This is American social media at its worst. When told it was "art" they responded "IT'S DANGEROUS!" I think I'm done with insta AGAIN!</p><p>I hunted yesterday afternoon behind the shack. I kicked one out going in and never saw a deer from the stand. The weather today and tomorrow sucks - warm and rainy. It's not looking good for more meat. </p>mike osterhouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152169716242748156noreply@blogger.com0