I now have access to a scanner!

Here is a picture of garter snake. I took it (the picture, not the snake, who as far as I know still roams free).


Bruce Peninsula garter snake - Click to embiggen

Because We Can't Spend All Our Time Worrying About Our Nearest Neighbours' President Goin' All Fascist On Us...

My sister sent my a link to this story. It's very sweet.

Sample photograph from the article:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!

To win your forgiveness for the relative lack of activity around here recently (I'm not dead, just busy!), I give you this:



Cute, no?

Regular posting again soon (possibly even starting this weekend).

Because The Sight Of Animals Attacking Small Children Is Funny, Goddammit!

Click and enjoy...

A Day Late etc. etc.



Awwww, it's Winnie the Pooh! Anyway, Oi! Thump! turned two yesterday, and I thought y'all should bask in the momentousness of the occasion.

Save Us! Oh Gods Above, Save Us!!

Ok, I should be working on my term papers right now, but this was too good to pass up. Apparently, there's somebody new movin' up the ol' food chain (condolences to the poor dog...).


"Raaaaaaahh!! TREMBLE, PUNY ONES!!!!!"


"What are you gaping at, slave? LOWER YOUR EYES!!!"


The last thing many a brave human warrior will ever see...


"I...AM....YOUR...GOD!!!!!!"

In the months and years to come, as we bow in homage and give up our first-born children to our cruel squirrel overlords, just remember that you read it on Oi! Thump! first.

Sorry, the grand muse of blogging has not been with me this week, possibly because of the liver abuse inflicted on self over St. Patrick's Day. Anyway, in apology and atonement, here's a FREE BEAVER PICTURE!!!!!



See, I told you the grand muse of blogging had not been showing her coffee-addled, square-eyed, overworked, underpaid self around here this week. I mean, that joke was old before there were beavers...

Well, a couple of days ago, I promised funny stuff about raccoons. And here you go! To begin with, there is no possible way that anybody could ever improve upon the headline of this story:

Nazi raccoons conquer Europe

Raccoons released by Hermann Goering in Germany in 1934 to "enrich the Reich's fauna" are threatening to succeed where their Nazi benefactors failed by conquering Europe.



As you can plainly see, there's nothing about raccoons that isn't pure, unadulterated, evil. I love 'em...

It was, he reflected, in many ways a metaphor for life

Stowaway cat attacks pilot
10mar04

A BANGLADESHI pilot needed first aid after a stowaway cat got into the cockpit of his aircraft and attacked him, a report said today.

Some things are just too perfect...