Fellow Assarians
“I know I got your number for a reason…ah…give me a minute…ah...” Details. With all the syrups of Arabia and unctions of 'the deserted island' (the best place to mingle, 'all the beer you can drink and there is a free stage play in the other room') like a bird into a bottle, and alarm clocks and alluring bodices and painted eyes. Rob to Matt: "Have I talked to you today?" Matt to Mark: "Have I talked to you today?” In the holiday shadow, over two days, with two strombolies, two chords, C and G, and filling a road side lake after getting Cash for Your Trash--"the face of art for the last ten years"... "It's near water"... ”a 94 Lebaron”... "Is this five o’clock blue?... How about the Winge of War?”...and “the flaw of humanity," as it turns out (without an "appreciation for history"), is that, the Hopi need chickens or turkeys, what ever you're into, what ever you can spare, boned or boneless—they’ve all been naughty; and the women are in desperate need of a dentist… & International Update: La Gallega has a Madeline; what was she thinking? Meanwhile (over an Apollo Sunrise), smart feng shui money is on
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Do squirrels cross 8 mile?
Let's investigate!
Headlines: Rat squirrel back after 10 million year absence. Russian squirrel pack kills stay dog. Look at Twiggy the water-skiing squirrel!
There are over 365 species of squirrel (Like Saints, one for each day of the year). And 569,964 humans have found their inner squirrel.
The Latin word for squirrel, sciurus, (looks like scurrious adj. to me, as in describing one who scurrys) is derived from two Greek words, skia, meaning shadow, and oura, meaning tail. Squirrels tend to wake an hour or two after dawn and go to bed an hour or two before sunset (This sheds some light on why I found that squirrel in my bed). Go squirrel fishing with a peanut on the end of a string.
Change the formula if your squirrel has trouble with the regular Esbilac, such as diarrhea or bloating. This is very important...Never feed a cold squirrel!
A recent paper to the journal Mammalia, saw a team of Italian biologists looking at whether coat colour in Red squirrels from northern Italy could be related to habitat and whether colour influenced survivability. Black is often the dominant colour in Ontario and Quebec. And in the United States a few small, completely white populations are found. The eastern grey squirrel is a tolerant species and exhibits little aggressive behaviour. Numerous myths suggest that the red and the grey squirrels are bitter enemies and that the red will castrate the grey at every opportunity.
Hunters have to be quick and accurate to shoot the swift and elusive eastern grey squirrel. It is interesting to note that naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton credited these qualities of marksmanship, developed to a high degree by early American squirrel hunters, with helping to defeat the British during the American revolution. (Where as, I took one out when I was about 9 er 10 with a sharpend broom handle.) And now the red squirrel is at risk of extinction in Great Britain, being pushed out by its North American cousin--the gray* squirrel. (*British spelling).
& From Campus Squirrel Listings: There was a colony of California Ground squirrels near the humanities building, until they poisoned them all.
Don't you think that Stanford's rating deserves to be upped to a 5? True, Stanford can't claim to have a squirrel as its mascot, as does Mary Baldwin College. Stanford's mascot is a tree, the traditional and revered home of squirrels the world over.
He reports that his girlfriend is pro-squirrel.
Squirrels also get special priveleges here (University of Chicago). There's lots of construction going on, and the construction people saw fit to put up 'Squirrel Crossing Only' signs.
The picture on the live squirrel cam will update in 10 seconds. In the meantime, visit Sugar Bush at Superstar Squirrel.
In July, Sugar Bush and Kelly stopped off in Nashville & visited with Vernon Winfrey (Oprah Winfrey's dad). Here Vernon gives Kelly some of his sage advice at his cute little barber shop.
Ah, and buy war bonds. Heard that the world is turning into a desert, that they are growing every year, thanks to pollution and all that. But there aint no doubt that them middle-easterners are behind it, adapted as they are to such a life; meanwhile, pushing thier crude black gold. The Forces of Good (FOG) have been reacting to their miscellany with weather weapons and sub-ocean pulses wetting down the world with waves and rain. I'd wish they just burry the hatchet; but until one gives, it looks like we are stuck with seasons. And squirrels, though inhabiting winter climates, do not hibernate--wonder which side they'll be on?
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“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
Anatole Broyard
The tyrant warms me like a fireplace. His defeat,
somehow by my hand. The victory. Sharp
ened to refer to an ongoing war,
a distant blip. But who cares—but about:
the weather, a rainy day, some sun;
needing or not needing a gun; or
losing or not losing
another piece
of soul.
Pulled off the rail,
into the ice, commingling with parachutes
and burning steel shards, sinking.
The worst,
the part that kills
and dismembers, severs,
and reorders,
draws lines across rivers;
he’s dead that’s all, sent him back
from where he came, down into
the dark box at the bottom
of the lake, for now, left
in a hollow lament;
and the winner is left
perspiring, flexing,
minus a leg
and looking for other winners
"The term which above all others shapes this way of thinking about
history is the term ‘irony’, which places an unquantifiable distinction
between a statement and ‘its’meaning." (Cambridge University Press;
0521660564 - Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus,
Ellen O'Gorman)
l'a-ro
posted by friars | Wednesday, March 15, 2006
2 Comments:
nice soul to the poem. love the quote at the beginning.
haba
very useful article. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did anyone hear that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.
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