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Dramatic Marmot

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

There’s a ten-foot mural painted on the side of a building that I often pass while walking home. Tonight I finally snapped a photo of it:

I always smile when I see it, because it reminds me so much of the famous Dramatic Chipmunk:

I’d look worried, too, if I faced imminent extinction. It was apparently painted […]

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Fibre-Free Fickle Feral Feline Feces

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Our bedroom is on the top floor of our limestone farmhouse. There’s kind of an outdoor landing outside our bedroom door, which you cross to descend stairs into the rest of the house. We’ve occasionally seen cats on this landing, as they cross rooftops and balconies and lick their tongues into the corners of the […]

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The Jellyfish are Marshalling

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Gwendolyn sends along a bizarre story from Northern Ireland:
The only salmon farm in Northern Ireland has lost its entire population of more than 100,000 fish, worth some $2 million, to a spectacular jellyfish attack, its owners said Wednesday.
The Northern Salmon Co. Ltd. said billions of jellyfish–in a dense pack of about 10 square miles and […]

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