Alex Heard

Santa Fe-based writer & editor (articles + books). Past gigs include Searchlight NM, Outside, Wired, and the NYT Magazine. Author of The Eyes of Willie McGee.

[Alex Heard @alexheard]

I wrote about an excellent federal wildlife refuge in southeastern Indiana—a former Army testing site—that the government inexplicably seems to want to kill off. 🐦🐝🐸🐟🦌

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Supporters of Indiana’s Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge received a letter suggesting the federal government may end the agreement that has protected the refuge for 25 years—raising questions about its future as a public resource.
https://t.co/tz6ISSbChc

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"Our Age of Bronze is collapsing."

"What then will become of us?"

"We shall sail West. To the Gilded Age."

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@mattizcoop Are you referring to the Only Publication That Matters? Sending my proposal now via drone. (Kidding. I will write you, though.)

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Someone should assign me to write about the people who make Hero Statues—like the new one at the White House, of T. Jefferson—that look like they were designed by the Franklin Mint. I love this topic and have written about it before—in a Civil War context. https://t.co/Ct0JqaqJ4k

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According to post-Homeric mythology, Odysseus stayed with Circe for a while and they had kids together. Which leads to a great concept for a sitcom.
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"All Our Children Are Pigs." 🐷🧒

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This sounds like an old-school McDonald's sign: ONE MILLION BAKED!

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I was pre-warned about this, but I was surprised "The Odyssey" script used phrases like "my dad" and "It's OK!"

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@hcksqtjimduggan Does the place where you're seeing it serve beer? If so, you have to make that commitment.

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I saw "The Odyssey." The biggest raw deal obviously was the cyclops, who was a victim of violent home invasion and was properly exercising his Castle Doctrine rights.

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Is it really a "World" Cup halftime show without a seven-continent tribute to yacht rock?

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England are through!

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Fewer shots were fired at Waterloo.

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@FiteLE Any way to also blame Belgium?

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France's players must have insulted the Duke of Wellington with the ultimate throwdown: "He did not actually invent Beef Wellington." Now they're behind 4-0.

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@alexheard Loser provides the Capri Sun and orange slices.

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@goodbreffis weed whacking or weed eating or Vanderbilt (device) versus Tennessee (weeds)

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I don't know anything about the 3rd-4th-place game in the World Cup. Do both teams "give it their all" or do they tend to mail it in in a "who cares?" way?

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People show up in Youtube comments of Elaine Paige singing "I Dreamed a Dream" *just* to say they think Susan Boyle sang it better. But here's the thing, guys: Ruthie Henshall said "hold my beer" and whupped 'em both. https://t.co/BLo7PMa4KC

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@CTMay3 OK, but just try to stay safe out there.

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There isn't a new "Barbie" movie playing at the same time as "The Odyssey," but if there were, the correct term for the cultural craze for seeing both in the same day would be: Malibu Homer, *not* Barbyssey.