Best part of Roadtrip 2012 was feeding a giraffe romaine lettuce at the Milwaukee County Zoo. They extort $10 from you for the priviledge, but there is something weird and wonderful about being eye level with a giraffe intent on grabbing something out of your hand with a foot-long black tongue. It's like a deer that a mad scientist got hold of ( Read more... )

Interesting, exhausting weekend. Took in Old Days by Harold Pinter, written in 1971. One of those plays with only three actors, minimalist furniture, all white, and lots and lots of meaningful pauses to which you the audience are to attach Meaning. At the end of the play - in which the only real action is Kate and her husband Deeley receiving a ( Read more... )

Hippos can hold their breath for a very long time, but at least one always has an eye on you.


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