All over Madison in the spring, girl ducks frantically fly around being chased by boy ducks and it doesn't look friendly at all. The girls look scared, like they want to get the hell out of there. I have been telling people that I think the boys are trying to rape the girls, and people did not believe me. But today on RadioLab (the Sperm episode) I ( Read more... )

(Middleton is this terrifying sprawly mall land between Madison and my house ( Read more... )

Well, I thought you would all like an update to my feral cat saga. I haven't been using the raccoon-proof feeding platform because it's really quite badly warped, and I need to fix it. But I thought the raccoons weren't coming to eat my cats' food these days, because the water has been clean and sparkling, and usually the raccoons like to dump all ( Read more... )

I am sitting at Starbucks at O'hare because....guess what? Northwest cancelled my flight. There is a couple sitting next to me and the guy got up to put sugar in his coffee, some 7 feet from their table, and spilled it all over the floor. His girlfriend said "Oh, sweetie.....poor sweetie", stuck out her lip at him and made sympathetic cooing sounds ( Read more... )

I went home to Detroit over the Thanksgiving weekend because my grandfather was sick in the hospital. I spent a fair amount of time visiting him, and was left totally confused about a few issues. Primarily, why do people have room mates in hospitals??? The more i think about this, the angrier I get. Can you think of a time when you need your ( Read more... )

Am finally back in my own precious bed! I returned from Australia two mornings ago, but got stranded in San Francisco for a day (due to 'mechanical troubles'. but omg, the lady at the airport who helped me rearrange my flight was so fricking nice. She GAVE ME HER CELL PHONE NUMBER and said to call her if i had any troubles. She spent like a half ( Read more... )

"The best way is to replace them if you're thinking they need washing. Do wash the pillow cases, though. I hope you use pillow cases. Every 2 to 3 weeks place your pillows in the freezer for 30 minutes to kill the mites that live on our sloughed off skin, and then take them outside and shake them out. Put clean pillow cases on and you're good for ( Read more... )

Did you know...emus protect goats. An emu will pounce on a coyote and show it who is boss. Emus also will not stand for any intruders wandering into your goat pen; I definitely would not want one of them pecking at my skull. They have scary beady eyes. Jay and I met a really nice rancher on our recent trip to Yosemite (OK, we only met him because ( Read more... )

How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.

From: Some dude who wrote in to NPR's weekend edition.

Today I got cocky. Wyatt has been letting me pet him so regularly that I thought I would have no problem at all giving him the anti tick-flea-worm medicine 'Revolution'. It's a gel you put between the cat's shoulder blades. He saw it coming 10 feet away and hated me for the next hour for even thinking about giving him meds. I didn't even come ( Read more... )