The Urban Pantheist

Today I saw the first snowflake of the 2007-2008 season. Other people saw many more, but I just saw the one. Lots of coworkers were whining about the cold, but I just toughed it out wearing a sweatshirt (our work coats haven't come in yet, and I didn't want to wear my ratty jacket where the public could see me) on our way to the ICE CREAM PARTY that the cops threw us for some reason.

I had the wonderful experience of going in a cage with an animal I've never even seen close up before, not knowing how it moved or reacted to things until I watched it with my own eyes a few feet away. It was like having an encounter with an alien, which, I suppose, it was. (it was a red panda)

A couple days ago i dreamt that someone was eating a burrito that was stuffed mostly with uncooked BOP. The zookeepers reading this all gagged, imagining the smell of it so close to their faces. For the rest of you, imagine coarsely ground indeterminate meat product, complete with gristle and cartilage fragments. It smells like...well, I can't quite describe it. When I used to cut mice up with poultry shears, the smell of that was similar--sour, a little rotten.

A 12 ton minke whale was found swimming in a river, almost 1000 miles from the ocean.

Alexis posted a voice post meme, so if you want to know what her voice sounds like (sexy) go here.

Also she posted a video of me at Flann's explaining my opinion of mozzarella sticks, so if you want to see what I look and sound like talking you can go here.

(I guess the fact that I think she sounds sexy and she thinks I'm funny means that we're good for each other.)

I've been trying to decide if i should try out this mouse electocutor. It seems more humane than most mouse killing devices (apart from snap traps) but it's marketed for the squeamish--you 'never have to see the dead mouse.' I like the fact that you could conceivably get many mice in a short period of time with it. What do you think?

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Devil's coach horse, a rove beetle (a kind of beetle that likes to prey on the insects and other animals associated with death and decay) with a most excellent common name.