From Wikipedia, how to catch a frog (as done in Louisiana):people will go onto a river or pond/lake at night in a boat, shining a flashlight along the shore to see the light reflection in the frogs eyes (frog gigging). The light reflect off of the eye retina and immobilizes the frog. Paddling to the location of the frog while one person keeps the ( Read more... )

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Robert Hughes on the painting of Winslow Homer's Fox Hunt (1893):To get it right, Homer -- who much preferred fishing to hunting -- had a friend at Prout's Neck shoot him a fox and a couple of crows. The fox was wired to stakes to make it look lifelike, and he strung the crows on a clothesline above. At night he would bury the fox in a snowdrift ( Read more... )

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Evil cat murders 25 people! (Well, that seems the most likely explanation.)

Man's car makes funny purring noise. Finds kitten inside!

Owl fetish. Curses upon words that have more than one meaning!

Jesus sex fetish exposedA friend of mine claims the Spice Girls once appeared on Top of the Pops riding elephants. I do not have a link for this, ( Read more... )

In the past few weeks I seem to have dreamt about almost everyone I know, from people I went to school with to scary Livejournallers who hang out with evil slash fiction writers. So last night in my sleep I was in New York with Steven who I knew in my callow youth (what exactly does callow mean in non-X-Factor contexts?) and someone from LJ whom I ( Read more... )

Pet-related news story of the week: Japanese fraudsters have been selling fake poodles that are really cunningly-shaved sheep. The scam was exposed by a Japanese actress: "Maiko Kawakami appeared on a TV talk show with snaps of her pet, and admitted she wondered why it 'didn't bark and refused to eat dog food'. She was soon set straight - her dog ( Read more... )