Andy Newman of The New York Times was kind enough to write up a piece today about next week's Canada goose event that I'm putting on in Brooklyn with the help of Slow Food NYC.
I haven't checked in on it since around noon, but last time that I saw the comments thread on this thing it was hilarious. Go add your two cents, please.
My mother, Janis Jaquith, was good enough to edit and post some of the rough video that I shot while hunting green iguanas in the Florida Keys last month. This was while working on my new book, 'Eating Aliens.' This video is not part of the material filmed by Rumur while working on the pilot for the 'Eating Aliens' TV show. That pilot was a hunt for spiny black-tailed iguanas and the camera work is much more professional.
So here it is. Sorry for some of the rough camera work. It goes a bit wavy in the very beginning I think because of the extreme heat that was baking my poor Flip Mino HD camera. That camera has already bit the dust, following in the footsteps of the Flip that preceded it. Now I have to buy another one before driving down to Georgia on Monday to hunt feral pigs with an AR-15 and a night vision scope (when in Rome...). None of this equipment seems to last long against the swamps, salt spray, heat, and whitewater rapids that I have been subjecting it to while working on this project.
If anyone at Flip is listening, please send me half a dozen HD units and a pair of tripods immediately. Help.
It is important to understand that I was hunting these green iguanas only a few miles from the last remaining population of the critically endangered Miami blue butterfly. The green iguanas are fond of eating the nickernut plant, which also happens to represent the primary food source of those butterflies. In the long run, only one of these species has a future in the Keys. If we are going to save this critically endangered species then the green iguanas have to go.
I am doing a two day deer hunting class on October 23rd - 24th. This is the same curriculum as usual. The class is already about half filled. As usual, this will include everything from natural history to the basics of riflery to a hands-on field dressing demonstration.
Anyone interested, please shoot me an email at jack.landers@gmail.com
A lot of people have been asking me about doing a November or December course. The answer is that it is possible but I can't promise anything at this point. We just finished editing the pilot for the 'Eating Aliens' TV show and I'm working on the first half of the new book. By November, I could be fully engaged in working on a full season of the TV show (boy, don't I hope so!) and if that is the case then I don't know that there will be any more deer hunting classes offered in the next year. If you want to get in on one, this might be the last chance.
Many people reading this were among those who have been bugging me for the last 4 months to do another class that is available for individual sign-ups rather than the group events I've come to prefer. Ok, here it is. I'm doing this because you guys asked for it.
One time I was the top story on the main page of the New York Times. I've written and published two books (with more on the way). I convinced the state of New York to give culled geese to homeless shelters instead of throwing them in land fills. I hosted a TV pilot. Sometimes I do commentaries for public radio. I work seasonally as a hunting guide. I spent 2 weeks hunting wild boar in Texas on foot in the dark armed only with a knife. Sometimes I build rifles. I'm big in Canada. Someone made a whole movie about me that will be out in late 2012. I'm an ok framing carpenter, I can build a brick wall, butcher a pig, brew beer, bake cookies, fix a lawnmower and change a diaper.
I am often available for unusual jobs in interesting places. Inquiries welcome.
Andy Newman of The New York Times was kind enough to write up a piece today about next week's Canada goose event that I'm putting on in Brooklyn with the help of Slow Food NYC.
