This thing is so dang long that I'm just going to cross-post it to my journal, so that I can easily retrieve it. Sorry parrot_lovers, you're going to have to deal. ;)

Eclectus vs. Greys

I've never formally introduced Vasya here [at parrot_lovers], and for that I am a Very Bad Person. I think some of you know already, through comments and whatnot, that Vasya is Cinereo ( ( Read more... )

I think most people in the US have a family connection to a veteran, and I have a couple of them, in addition to family members currently serving... my uncle Jerry is a decorated Marine veteran of Korea and Vietnam... but I feel a stronger cultural connection to the Japanese veterans who came out of the internment camps directly to serve in the ( Read more... )