August 11, 2010
Download John Peel Music & Lyrics
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Download Your Ring-tones
Thank you for signing up to receive our periodic e-Magazines! We look forward to providing you with entertaining stories, breaking news, and valuable resources through Foxhunting Life. You may unsubscribe at any time and keep your free hunting horn ringtones, courtesy of John Tabachka and Foxhunting Life. Please download your chosen ring-tones below. (mp3 format) Windows users: right-click on filename, left-click on Save Target As (or save link as), and save file to your computer. Mac users: option/click and save to your computer. Moving Off Doubling Gone Away Gone to Ground Whip to Me FHL cannot support all possible cell phone configurations, so please check with your cell phone provider on how to use these files as ring-tones. If you prefer, you may email us with your chosen ringtone and your cell number and we will text you the file through your phone’s messaging system. Text-messaging costs may apply depending on your cell phone plan. If you need a different format please let us know and we will try to accommodate you. Tip: Try saving the MP3 file to your computer, then emailing it to yourself on your phone! Then download there and save as a ringtone.... This content is for subscribers only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
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Free Hunting Horn Ringtones
Select and download your favorite call on the hunting horn for your own cell phone ringtone! Courtesy of two-time National Horn Blowing Champion John Tabachka, Foxhunting Life will provide mp3 audio files of the horn calls (or M4R files specifically for iPhone) from John’s popular FHL video, Calls on the Horn. To get your free hunting horn ringtones, please give us your name and email address in the spaces provided below, then click on “Submit.” Choose the hunting horn file(s) of your choice on the next screen, and they will be emailed to you. For iPhone owners, instructions on loading the ringtones can be found at this link. Periodically Foxhunting Life will also e-mail our free e-magazine, FHL WEEK, to you highlighting the latest news, feature articles, photo galleries, videos, and other noteworthy additions to our website. You may unsubscribe at any time and keep your free foxhunting ring-tone. If you already receive our e-Letters, the form below confirms your subscription.... This content is for subscribers only.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here
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London Fox Killing Video a Hoax
The recent horrific incident of an actual fox attack on a pair of young twins in London spawned, according to Chris Atkins and Johnny Howorth, a media hysteria there disproportionate to the extent of the problem. According to Atkins, the reporting, including by the BBC, was irresponsible and misrepresentative, and the reports never stressed that urban fox attacks were rare and that foxes were not dangerous. To expose the “ludicrous media coverage” of the dangers of urban foxes, Atkins and Howorth produced a video satire as “ridiculously silly and Python-esque” as possible. Their video, showing a fox being clubbed to death in a London park, was posted on Facebook and YouTube, resulting in complaints to the police and condemnation by animal rights groups. Atkins apologized to those of the public who were upset by the footage, and assured them that the “dead” fox was actually a stuffed fox, and the live fox shown was actually a pet dog. Part of the video is said to have been used by the BBC in a television report documenting the apparent practice of urban fox killing. The video had since been removed from Facebook and YouTube. “I did not expect so many people to take it seriously,” he said. BBC News has more.
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The Road Warriors: Day Seven
John and Beth at the south edge of the 270-degree views from Nepenthe
They told me it was worth it. To go to the hassle of dropping my trailer in L.A. To go to the trouble of wiggling east, then back west to find Highway 1. To suck up a whole tank of fuel just for a hundred miles of roadway.
And they were right.
The legendary Pacific Coast Highway earned top marks from our intrepid traveling band for beauty, raw power, force of nature, and inspiration, and not necessarily in that order. I read somewhere that lots of people fly into San Francisco, rent a convertible, and drive the route north to south (the preferred direction). I agree. This was fun enough in a diesel truck, but how much more so in, oh, say, a ’97 Esprit Turbo. Highway 1 is built for sin.
