Our Political Climate

I think this is a picture of Democrats and Republicans. The puppy is the Democrats. The fat kitty is the Republicans. Some people say our political parties are fighting like cats and dogs. I think they are just playing. Look at the kitty trying to hug the puppy. Look at the puppy acting stiff, like he doesn't acknowledge the fatty's kitty hug. But the puppy loves the kitty. And the fat kitty loves the puppy.
And look at that puppy's tail, mid wag. Or mid puppy, depending on your conspiratorial sensibilities. Look at that puppy's wag, mid tail. Or look at that tail's puppy, mid wag. Or tail's wag mid puppy.
Any way you look at it, there is happiness to be found in this picture. A lesson to us all.

"Myakka Skunk Ape Photograph"

An anonymous photographer sent two of these photos to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department in 2000. The origin of the prints was determined to be a Sarasota Eckerd Drug Store Photo Lab. An anonymous letter included with the photos mentions that the creature had been visiting at night to forage apples left out in a bushel basket.
My read: this looks like a more temperate-climate cousin of the wampa, the snow creature that attacked and nearly ate Luke Skywalker on the ice planet Hoth. In the Star Wars extended universe, Luke eventually returns to Hoth, and in a small-galaxy serendipity encounters that very same wampa, missing an arm from Luke's violent escape nine years earlier. Second thought: the skunk ape looks like he's just been photographed in a humiliating situation.

Blogology. Blogaeology. Inorganic Astropology. (w/emphasis in late-century metaideology)

--Unearthed draft from waaaay back on 10/18/09 at 9:50 PM. I wonder what I was thinking? What was I beginning to say? Alas, all that remains of the idea are these two visual artifacts, which may have appeared as a result of one image search, or one followed by another, or some interconnected string of links... That'd be some guesses. Were the choices of image motivated by an initial thought or theme? Or, on the other hand, were the images themselves the causes of what I presume was supposed to follow: a word or two about the thought that was being had? Alas, all that remain are the ideas of these visual artifacts, which may have appeared as the result of one search, or one followed by another, or one interconnected string of links... That'd be some guess! Were the choices of image motivated by initial thought? On the other hand: were the images themselves the causes of what was supposed to follow: a word or two about the thought that all beings had? Alass, all that remains are these artifacts, which may have appeared, followed by another. Interconnected strings link some: choices motivated by Initial Thought. The others were themselves the causes of what was to follow: a Word! That beings have! Alas! These artifacts! They interconnect! Initial choices motivate thoughts! Cause others to follow words! At last! These facts connect! Initial motivation causes others to follow--beings to follow words! Alas,
I suppose I'll never know. But it is an interesting thought experiment!

♥Miller

It stores all my Micromachines

I really like the table it's on. Makes it seem like something in the corner of a basement family room.

Scarlet Champion

It suddenly occurred to me the term "scarlet champion," and the all-knowing and benevolent Googler rewarded me, and now I also knew that they were "annoyingly strong," which, from one gamer to another, is as significant as a tribal hunting gesture on an ice-age mammoth hunt.

Okay, let the bidding begin

I was sifting through the annals of the Caldecott Society UK Page and discovered this premium property, "The Milkmaid," which I believe long ago lapsed into public domain.