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High Five, Look Up, Look Alive
Feb. 4th, 2008 10:26 am1. See my previous post, on the weird wonderfulness of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.
2. My lovely neighborhood coffee shop, where I drink tea because coffee disgusts me, has a display of art by this gentleman, whose art is pretty cool. I particularly like the "Mother Earth" piece.
3. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a football fan. Instead, last night I had Puppy Bowl IV on while I worked on other stuff. My fave was the Alaskan Malamute, Bruin, who at fourteen weeks was three times the size of some of the other pups, and towered over them like a canine Paul Bunyan, largely seeming a bit bemused by the entire proceeding.
4. Am reading Naomi Novik's new book, which despite some tiresome bits has that one-more-chapter quality that all of the Temeraire books have had to some extent. This one's shaping up to be a little better, overall, than books 2 or 3, both of which had sections that were rather a slog for me. (Honestly, every time there's a battle, particularly with Napoleon's forces, I start to drift off. Does that make me some kind of weirdo?) I should note that I strenuously object to the practice of raising elephants as foodstock for dragons, and will be starting a fictional organization dedicated to the ending of this practice.
5. Speaking of elephants, after the Puppy Bowl I watched Nature on PBS, which had the documentary Unforgettable Elephants. Turns out that this was a continuation of the story of Echo and her family, which was begun in two previous documentaries, Echo of the Elephants and Echo of the Elephants: The Next Generation. If you're so inclined, these three documentaries give you a pretty good idea of how elephant families work, how truly empathetic they are, and how not deserving of being hunted for ivory or sport they are. (Not to mention being EATEN BY DRAGONS.)
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2. My lovely neighborhood coffee shop, where I drink tea because coffee disgusts me, has a display of art by this gentleman, whose art is pretty cool. I particularly like the "Mother Earth" piece.
3. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a football fan. Instead, last night I had Puppy Bowl IV on while I worked on other stuff. My fave was the Alaskan Malamute, Bruin, who at fourteen weeks was three times the size of some of the other pups, and towered over them like a canine Paul Bunyan, largely seeming a bit bemused by the entire proceeding.
4. Am reading Naomi Novik's new book, which despite some tiresome bits has that one-more-chapter quality that all of the Temeraire books have had to some extent. This one's shaping up to be a little better, overall, than books 2 or 3, both of which had sections that were rather a slog for me. (Honestly, every time there's a battle, particularly with Napoleon's forces, I start to drift off. Does that make me some kind of weirdo?) I should note that I strenuously object to the practice of raising elephants as foodstock for dragons, and will be starting a fictional organization dedicated to the ending of this practice.
5. Speaking of elephants, after the Puppy Bowl I watched Nature on PBS, which had the documentary Unforgettable Elephants. Turns out that this was a continuation of the story of Echo and her family, which was begun in two previous documentaries, Echo of the Elephants and Echo of the Elephants: The Next Generation. If you're so inclined, these three documentaries give you a pretty good idea of how elephant families work, how truly empathetic they are, and how not deserving of being hunted for ivory or sport they are. (Not to mention being EATEN BY DRAGONS.)
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