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If I were Edgar Freemantle and had just been nearly crushed to death by LINK-BELT and Dr. Kamen asked whether I had any hobbies that made me happy, I guess I'd have to say, "Well, I used to do a lot of birdwatching." So I'd move to a mysteriously deserted Florida key and start intensely birding again ... and one day I'd see a strange bird floating ( Read more... )

I just woke up from a dream in which I was a ghoul snacking on a severed head. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to me, the zombie apocalypse had happened and the head started screaming at me. It was actually kind of comical, but it hath murdered sleep, at least for the moment ( Read more... )

Reprinted in its entirety from the LJ feed of Julie Zickfoose. I just e-mailed Governor Beshear and I hope you'll take a moment to do so too. If you have a Kentucky connection, it might be helpful to say so (I mentioned that most of my family is from there and I hate to see this going on in my ancestors' home). I am not opposed to all hunting, ( Read more... )

So I've been in bed for three days with vertigo, which seems to be getting better, and I kept hearing a cuckoo. It was too frequent and irregular to be a clock, and the bird that makes the classic cuckoo-clock call is only found in Europe and Asia. Had one escaped from a menagerie? Had a local mockingbird somehow heard one and become obsessed with ( Read more... )

Times-Picayune: OH NOES APPLE SNAILS

Rest of Louisiana: EWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!11111!!!!!

Louisiana bird geeks: OMG WE CAN HAZ SNAIL KITES?

Now my brain wants to go off on a tangent about a LOLcats' guide to birding ... and I have a crush on Trollface ... and I know about racial wank in fanfic about characters from movies I've never seen ... oh, God ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took marquisdd and his soon-to-be-husband Ben down to Shell Beach. I guess I hadn't adequately explained that Shell Beach has neither shells nor beaches, or I thought they'd memorized Soul Kitchen, or something, because they brought towels and sunscreen, and Ben had the quote of the day: "I wore my bathing suit to a construction site." It wasn't ( Read more... )

Doing much better. Self-improvement so far has included blowing the shit out of some shit at the shooting range, eating excellent Moroccan food at exciting new restaurant Little Morocco on St. Charles, and sitting and watching the birds in the Audubon Park lagoon for a couple of hours yesterday evening. I needed to remind myself how much beauty is ( Read more... )