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greygirlbeast

Clash of the Invertebrata!

Jul 09, 2007 12:33

Yesterday, I did 1,218 words on The Dinosaurs of Mars and reached the end of the third section, "The Survivor" (note that in my entry of July 5th I mistakenly referred to the second section by this same title, though in fact that section is titled "The Inquest"). So, that's 10,983 words thus far, fifty pages, and I'm guessing a little less than a ( Read more... )

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sovay July 9 2007, 17:26:05 UTC

specimen of the terrestrial planarian Bipalium kewense (Phylum Platyhelminthes) as it began an attack upon an earthworm (Phylum Annelida).

That is very cool.

On the other hand, I have already told subpress that The Dinosaurs of Mars may be my last sf novel, aside from some steampunk pieces I want to write.

Why so?

greygirlbeast July 9 2007, 18:08:33 UTC

Why so?

That's a hard question to answer. Especially hard to answer briefly. Maybe I'll feel different when The Dinosaurs of Mars is done. I might talk about this in the blog...

sovay July 9 2007, 19:15:31 UTC

Especially hard to answer briefly.

I don't demand a brief answer.

Maybe I'll feel different when The Dinosaurs of Mars is done.

Fair enough.

greygirlbeast July 9 2007, 19:20:50 UTC

I don't demand a brief answer.

I only meant that my replies to comments tend to be brief.

ex_blue_verv849 July 9 2007, 17:32:14 UTC

That's a really cool creature, though I do have a spot in my heart for earthworms, which are also quite interesting.

unknownbinaries July 9 2007, 18:19:21 UTC

This city/sprawl does manage to hang onto and still leave space for some interesting critters, more so than Philly did when I lived there. A friend of mine saw a wild turkey wandering through a QuikTrip parking lot not long ago, and I saw what was possibly a goshawk, and definitely some largish bird of prey, in a tree in our apartment complex's parking lot on the Fourth.

humglum July 9 2007, 19:06:19 UTC

It's really pretty amazing, when you take the time to look.
I saw a fox run across Ponce, near Fernbank, a couple of years ago. And hawks are all over the place.

sfmarty July 9 2007, 19:12:36 UTC

Not too many critters in the middle of San Francisco. Skunks, Raccoons, Possums, Hawks (various kinds and once a golden eagle), gophers, rats, coyotes.

About 40 years ago there was a pair of garter snakes (Perhaps the rare ones) and I had a toad for years in the back yard. Earwigs, ants, beetles seem to dominate now. Havn't seen an earthworm for quite a while. I am clearing the debris from the back yard now and hope to make it more friendly to critters. Not the coyote tho, it seems to be eating the cats.

(by debris I mean mostly the widow makers from the pine tree and the carpet of plums from the plum tree.

Planarian Vs. Worm. Which reminds me... chris_walsh July 9 2007, 19:19:35 UTC

...of the late Logan Whitehurst's song "Happy Noodle Vs. Sad Noodle."

VERY random, but it may make you smile.