Cubs Out Loud

Found this interview while catching up on the Daily Show. Very interesting. The book is linked below.

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Jonathan Cohen writer of Bear Like Me joins the COL cubs for this episode.
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Another What Is A Bear conversation.

Cub Picks:

• Library Elf – Jonathan Cohen
• Gala Bears – Tim
• Bear Run The Movie -  – Johnjohn
• Bearciti – Johnjohn
• Pre-Pick – The Dark Knight – Johnjohn
• Totally Rad Review of The Dark Knight (and more) – Jeff

Mevio Music – Black Lab -Ghost In Your Mind

Huh, who’d a thunk it?  A grandson of Al Capone . . . is a Bear.  That’s right, Chris W. Knight is husky, hairy, and homosexual. He has a new book out about what he found out about his father, the Son of Scarface.  Check out his site at http://www.sonofscarface.com/.

The site says:

A provocative story, ‘Son of Scarface’ is a young man’s search for his father’s mysterious past. The simple, loving and honest parent had a double life and secret history that placed his unsuspecting family in a troubling legacy. In his autobiography, Chris Knight details how he uncovered the truth behind a family secret he heard as a young boy at his father’s funeral. An unbelievable story, his father life his entire life with deep secrets rivaling fiction. Growing up in a broken home, Chris and his sister were physically abused by their mother, whose actions were perhaps an attempt to safeguard her children from the truth that their grandfather was American’s most infamous gangster Al Capone – Scarface

It’s on sale now at Amazon. 

I was checking my feeds, and I was feeling hungry and the first item in the feed was a recipe for Spicy Southwestern Smoky Chili from the Bearly Edible Blog. Needless to say, my stomach sounded like a Bear in heat. This also reminded me of Bear Cookin’: The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods and More Bear Cookin’: Bigger And Better. I have Bear Cookin’ and I think I’ll break it out and actually cook almost every one of the recipes. If it has fish in it, I’m not eating it. I’ll report back on the food from the book and let you all know what I think. And I’ll post pictures in a Flickr feed for COL. I’ve also been thinking that it would be interesting to start a Bear Food podcast. Maybe see if Chef Tom of the Bearly Edible blog would like to participate. What do you all think? Would you listen to a podcast about food and bears?

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I mentioned this book in the Pilot Episode of the Cubs Out Loud Podcast. Years ago I bought this book as I started learning about the Bear Community. I have to say that the Bear Handbook was a great representation of what Bears are all about. As Ray Kampf explains in his introduction, this book was not to be taken seriously. However there is truth in those lies. I had loaned my Bear Handbook to a friend of mine several years back and didn’t get it back before he moved from the Twin Cities. I just recently bought the book again and am reading it. Knowing what I know about the Bear Community now, the book is out of date. When the author primary refers all his bear brethren to the BML, Resources for Bears, and talks about Bear Magazine and American Bear as the Bear Magazines, you know there needs to be a volume 2. Technology has grown to encompass more options for the bear community. This includes the many podcasts like mine, the “New” bear sites, bear runs, club mailing list, text messaging, chat clients. I may sound like I’m bashing The Bear Handbook, but I cannot give it anything lower than a 5. For the year 2000 for which this book was published, it was a wonderful representation of the time. Now if only Ray would write an updated version. If you’re a bear, cubs, otter, chaser, et al, you should get this book and have it in your archive.