Thursday, March 25, 2010

Outdoorsy.

John Lester did a photo spread/interview for Outdoor Life magazine.

I am trying very hard to not be judgmental. I eat meat. I have no problem with hunting for food. Ambushing a deer--camouflaging both your body and your scent and then hiding, even though you have a vastly superior intellect--is hardly sporting, though. If you need to prove your studliness, go kill a rhinoceros (well, maybe not a rhino--they're endangered) or get in a boat, row down the Nile, and try to kill a hippopotamus. If the hippo doesn't kill you and you don't end up dying from some terrible disease, that's an accomplishment worth bragging about. Africa not in the budget? Go kill a wild boar, without all the fancy accoutrements. You, a knife, and a boar. If you come out on top, then that is absolutely impressive.

Just don't bother bragging about how awesome you are if the only way that you're able to outsmart the damn animal is by making every possible effort to hide from him and the only thing that that animal is aggressive toward is a vegetable garden. There's nothing to be accomplished or be proud of in that scenario.

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