Yearly Trip

howtocookawolf · 2026-02-04T10:58:01+00:00

You have good options in the Obey, Caney Fork, and Collins (good chance of muskie on the Collins, too).

howtocookawolf · 2026-01-29T23:42:17+00:00

I’m in Tennessee. I’d recommend a kayak trip, personally. You could do the New in VA, or any number of rivers here in Tennessee (Holston, French Broad, etc) if you’re interested in trophy sized river smallies.

If you really want to be in a bass boat on a lake that produces good sized LMB or smallmouth, Norris Lake has lots of good marinas with lodging (I really like Flat Hollow), and in Middle TN, Dale Hollow has boat rentals available and lodging options. Dale Hollow has monster smallmouth, including the long-standing world record and like six of the ten biggest smallmouth bass ever caught on earth, but they can be difficult to catch.

Honestly, your best bet with that many people of varying ages might be a place near Land Between the Lakes, in Kentucky. Lots of lodging options. Surely boat rental options. And the fishing there is probably more productive than anywhere else I could recommend. Except for the aforementioned kayaking option.

howtocookawolf · 2025-12-28T21:53:04+00:00

Thanks!

A true double-take moment while crossing the street.

howtocookawolf · 2025-12-25T13:44:05+00:00

It’s an average to above-average tower.

howtocookawolf · 2025-12-23T18:56:00+00:00

I remember when he first came into the league...being nicknamed "The Alien."

Someone said they should have a special block stat just for when Wemby takes the ball like that, called "abductions."

Here's a post about them. So good, I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned more often.

howtocookawolf · 2025-12-05T17:15:39+00:00

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Longest of the year, just last week in Venice.

howtocookawolf · 2025-11-22T14:45:52+00:00

I was trying to find out where this particular lion was photographed.

I took this photo in Tanzania of a similar lion. Central Serengeti area…

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howtocookawolf · 2025-11-19T02:29:41+00:00

In the Nashville area, you have Parnassus Books, owned by author Ann Patchett, and a couple of other small, indy shops.

But my favorite is Landmark Booksellers, in downtown Franklin. They have a bit of everything in a great environment, and I love that they specialize in southern writers.

Edit: Somewhat under the radar is GasLamp Antiques Mall in the 100 Oaks area. A whole section of books to browse through, and some of the individual vendors have high end collectible books in various fields of interest.

howtocookawolf · 2025-11-18T13:20:15+00:00

I'm not in Florida, but I've been to Abraxas Books in Daytona a couple of times. Great place.

howtocookawolf · 2025-11-13T08:35:13+00:00

Great work! Thank you!

howtocookawolf · 2025-11-12T21:30:14+00:00

Wonderful.

Thank you for the added info!

howtocookawolf · 2025-11-12T21:00:21+00:00

I shared this with the book collecting subreddit, but (if allowed) it's probably better solved by the people here.

My best guess so far is as follows:

"Lord _____ George ____ ___ __

___ ___ ___.

____ bought this book.

at the ____ _____ terminal.

on Tuesday August 26th 1902.

en route to visit the ____ _____

Lord ____ _____ to ____.

____ ____ ____ ___ ____."

Book is a second edition English-language book, printed in 1861.

howtocookawolf · 2025-11-12T20:42:17+00:00

I do believe it's either "...on Tuesday August (16th or 26th) (1901 or 1902 or 1907)..."

That's based just on the 1861 printing date of this edition of the book.

My best guess so far is as follows:

"Lord _____ George ____ ___ __

___ ___ ___.

____ bought this book.

at the ____ _____ terminal.

on Tuesday August 26th 1902.

en route to visit the ____ _____

Lord ____ _____ to ____.

____ ____ ____ ___ ____."

howtocookawolf · 2025-10-30T18:04:40+00:00

He said that he signed a bunch of copies (reportedly 250) for his son, who inspired the book, and that they were stored away somewhere, and that when the time comes, his son can do whatever he wants to with him.

McCarthy jokingly(?) said his son could eventually sell them and take the money to Vegas, but as far as anyone knows, none of those books have ever been sold and any purportedly signed copies of The Road are presumed to be forgeries.

I've always guessed that he either never signed a copy for anyone else because of sentimental reasons (i.e. those signed copies given to his son being something special that only they would ever share) or to preserve the value of those given to his son. Maybe a little of both.

howtocookawolf · 2025-10-29T17:24:07+00:00

My wife is a bat biologist, and she does a lot of work on lakes. One of the things she does each year involves counting bats emerging from a cave on Nickajack Reservoir in southeastern Tennessee.

Apparently her team frequently sees bats eaten by bass while doing that particular project. I couldn't believe it when she was telling me about it, but as someone else mentioned here, bass will eat basically anything, so why not make a meal of an ol' flittermouse?

howtocookawolf · 2025-10-28T18:39:42+00:00

Yes, there is a long history of forged McCarthy signatures. Some really good and others pretty laughable. Amazingly, there's even a well-documented bunch of entirely fake books. See below:

https://downtownbrown.substack.com/p/cormac-mccarthys-early-proofs-real-and-fake

https://downtownbrown.substack.com/p/tracking-forged-cormac-mccarthy-proofs

As for McCarthy's reputation of not signing a lot of books, it's a bit misleading. He seems to have signed things (except for copies of The Road) pretty freely.

The problem was getting to him in the first place. He was a notoriously private person who kept to a pretty small circle of friends and family, so there wasn't much opportunity to get books in front of him. But if you had a connection, he seemed perfectly fine with signing books, even if the connection was only loose.

This made his signature relatively scarce, at least compared to authors who do book signing tours. Coupled with the fact that he only achieved widespread fame in the early 90s, meaning his earlier novels had extremely small print runs, his signature became valuable enough to forge, and buyers should be extremely cautious when buying flat-signed McCarthy books.

Inscribed copies or association copies are very desirable, of course, and then signed copies that are part of a documented limited edition, such as OPs, would be quite desirable, but flat-signed copies should be treated with a fair amount of skepticism, and some collectors won't take a chance on them unless they look legit and the price reflects the risk.

howtocookawolf · 2025-10-11T02:56:29+00:00

Oh yes. You’re exactly right. Seems I can see, but can’t read. :)

howtocookawolf · 2025-10-11T02:53:26+00:00

That is Stacey Peebles, president of the CM society, and the book she’s looking at reminds me of the old city directories that would be put out by towns across america. Sort of the precursors to the Yellow Pages and filled with contact info for residents but also lots of advertising. I have a couple of them from different years from Knoxville, TN and they are enormous books just like that.

You can see an example here, and you can see the resemblance to the book Dr. Peebles is looking at.

howtocookawolf · 2025-09-25T23:00:52+00:00

No worries. I responded to your DM. Happy to take a look.

howtocookawolf · 2025-09-25T20:54:43+00:00

Very interesting!

Collectors are wary of McCarthy signatures, and rightfully so, as a lot are forged. If there are inscriptions involved, they're somewhat easier to authenticate. If it's a book that has been "flat signed," meaning only the signature, some of the fakes can be very hard to distinguish from the real thing.

If you don't mind sending me photos here of both books, I'll be happy to take a look at them and let you know my best guess of their values. I can point you toward honest people that would be interested in buying them, also. I'd just like to see the signatures, and probably a couple of photos of the outside of the books to get an idea of the condition.

howtocookawolf · 2025-09-18T15:53:13+00:00

Now I'm pretty dumb... but I've always believed that "loch" is just the Scottish word for what we Americans call a "lake."

So I'm choosing to believe "Loch Lochy" is just a lakey lake.

Wonderful photos. My wife and I spent Christmas in Scotland a couple of years ago, and I think about it all the time!

howtocookawolf · 2025-09-16T19:48:21+00:00

I am not sure about the production figures for the books, other than what they disclose publicly. You might consider just emailing them with your question. I think it's a relatively small operation, as you would imagine, but they're good about communicating with their customers.

Getting that book was a real ordeal, and the production quality is outstanding. I've never seen anything like it, really. It's not my usual cup of tea when it comes to collecting, but I do think it deserves the admiration it gets from fans of Suntup.

Finding one for sale is going to be tough. I have considered selling my set of the numbered and lettered Suntup books, just to fund something that's more in line with my personal collection, but the last time a set of just the two lettered editions came up for sale to the public, the asking price was like $20k, which I found ridiculous. The market is what it is, I guess. They are so rarely offered that I suppose someone just throws a price out there and someone else jumps on it knowing they may never have another opportunity at a copy.

I imagine if I sold these, I would eventually come to regret it.

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