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The other day I saw a bird that drifted so languidly through the air me that, for a moment, I truly believed it to be a fish. I thought, we’re really in it now. What I could have meant by that statement, I don’t know. As thoughts go it fail...
"I Knew It, I Knew You" open thread
I would not have made an open thread if I thought the song was bad, but I like it.1 I was sort of expecting a sad ballad, and instead I was very happy to discover that, for me, it’s “I Think He Knows (Yee Haw Harmonica Version).” As maybe t...
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It was my birthday month and in celebration my health insurance decided not to take my doctor away. Hooray, hooray. I kind of wish I knew any of the dirty details involved but I do not so I’ll just take the win. What else did I do this mont...
coats of many colors
One of my “for fun” books that I have going right now is Houses Under the Sea, a collection of Lovecraft mythos stories by Caitlín Kiernan.1 After reading their story “The Cats of River Street,” which is a really clever story about heroic c...
raccoons are easily distracted
Screenshot from Pom Poko (1994), directed by Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli. Image from Fancaps.
In the nineties, there were many children’s movies that conveyed the message that the worst thing you could do—not only as a caretaker of the Ea...
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