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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 25, 2013 0:02:19 GMT -5
My dream is a world in which chickens live in peace. Since that's waaay too altruistic I'll simply dream for a good bowl of gravy. wow, that last shot is gorgeous. it could have come right out of a silent film. i know, i loved how the moon made the clouds around it a silvery blue. they look especially cool in the third pic. as i was looking at it last night on my front steps, i couldn't understand how i could be the only person on my street taking it in. When the moon is full I actually prefer a cloudy sky. That silver blue cloud lining makes everything seem wonderfully poetic & surreal. That last picture does look like it comes from an F. W. Murnau movie, doesn't it? I didn't realize the night vision setting would work that well. At least I had company from some of my family, but we were also the only ones out there looking up. It's just what that 'magic box' has taken away from most people. "Why would I want to look at the moon when 'A Game of Thrones' is on!?"
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Post by Ijon the Asano on Jun 25, 2013 8:10:18 GMT -5
We're having flat out, utterly unseasonable rain in California, but that pic does make up for it. Thanks!
And yeah, I have a pair of skunks living in my back yard that were right outside my door at that point. I was a few too many sheets to the wind to be very clear in putting that across, though.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 25, 2013 8:58:26 GMT -5
chicken: yeah, i immediately thought of sunrise when i saw that last pic, but since it was a moon-rise, i didn't want to be the geek that ruined the moment. so i'll do it now.
and ijonasano - i had a family of skunks living under my house a few years ago. my neighborhood gets invaded by them every summer. i was terrified that even my washing machine changing cycles would scare them and set them all off at once. i tip-toed across the floor like a silent film villain. but outside it smells like really, really good weed if you put a positive spin on it.
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Post by Ijon the Asano on Jun 25, 2013 10:23:03 GMT -5
I think these two are a mother and baby skunk. They seem very cool, and my mom said that a de-glanded one they had when she was a kid made a great pet.
I'd be worried if they were getting under my house, though. The neighbors had one die under theirs, and to hear them tell of it is pretty frightening.
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Post by spackle on Jun 25, 2013 10:32:46 GMT -5
i tip-toed across the floor like a silent film villain. I can see you now...... twirling your fake but large moustachio which comes unglued and, through the magic of silent film, becomes a live mouse and scampers off. The squeaking and pitter-patter of little feets scares the skunks and they spray and spray. Through the resulting fog we see a glowing crack opening in the ground, from which rises Old Hob. You're about to sell your soul when La Fee Verte swoops in on her Art Nouveau wings and whisks you away, thus converting you from villain to ingenue in a flash and creating a logic loop which makes everyone's head explode.... which is what good cinema is about anyway.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 25, 2013 10:40:33 GMT -5
ahhaa, you were born too late, spackle. we both were.
i talked to a guy at the agricultural office (they do a program at the station every week) about it, and he told me to put flour down on the ground in front of the crawl space opening (the door was loose), which i did. then i had to check it for tiny skunk footprints that night. once i saw them, he said to bolt up the door tight so they couldn't get back in, which i did. pretty clever, and it worked.
but i waited until, like, 2 in the morning one weekend to check and after i knew they were gone, all i had to do was replace the crawl space door. i was trying to close it with a broom handle because i was still paranoid one of them would jump out at me - raaawwwrrr! and i'd flip out. i was holding a small flashlight in my mouth as i tried to maneuver the broomstick when my heat pump kicked on a foot away - it sounded like a 747 coming in for a landing - and i fell backwards, dropped my broom and almost swallowed that flashlight. freaking skunks.
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Post by spackle on Jun 25, 2013 14:57:52 GMT -5
I used to think I was born too late (churn butter? sure!) but now I think I was born too early. I would love to watch science & technology keep changing over the next lifetime or two, and see what happens with humans in space. Maybe they'll keep my head in a jar, since I'm all-wise and stuff. Then I could watch!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 25, 2013 18:15:19 GMT -5
Ah, nothing like logging in and reading some funny posts. I would go back in time, invent a time machine, then come back to where I started in the first place...which would...um, kind of defeat the purpose of the time machine and create one hell of a paradox. New idea... I'm torn about whether going back or going forward. I guess I'd go forward with hopes that the best things about the past would once again come back into vogue. There, best of both worlds. Spice's skunk story sounded like an unfilmed Laurel & Hardy script. 'Stan and Ollie try to sneak into the house of Ollie's girlfriend in the middle of the night when Stan sees a plug that's unplugged, so he decides it needs plugging in. (ad-lib) (ad-lib) (ad-lib) Stan & Ollie then drive away in their car with the girlfriends father chasing after them with a gun. (ad-lib ending)' Which is usually their car completely falling apart. Spackle, that's some story. There's nothing much that I can think of to say about it because it really speaks for itself. And your head in a jar...lol!
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 25, 2013 18:22:13 GMT -5
dibs on putting spackle's head-in-a-jar on my mantle!
my time machine would take me back to 1920. with a buncha money and access to some good bootleg gin, old sport.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 26, 2013 22:02:43 GMT -5
Looks like Spackle's head has a home. Congratulations! I think you only want to go back to the 1920s to meet F. Scott Fitzgerald and get Chaplin.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 26, 2013 22:10:46 GMT -5
don't forget harold lloyd. and hemingway. and picasso. and josephine baker. salvador dali. my great-grandfather. and the marx brothers. for starters. and frida.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 27, 2013 16:38:39 GMT -5
look, everyone! i found chicken's house of worship.
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Post by Ijon the Asano on Jun 27, 2013 16:51:43 GMT -5
look, everyone! i found chicken's house of worship. Our Chicken, who art in Heaven, give us this day our daily feed . . .
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 27, 2013 19:51:32 GMT -5
You should see the pews. My favorite songs sung in church are "Cluck cluck clucking at Heaven's door..." & "He's got the whole egg in his claws..." Then they turn on the spotlights and we crow unto the Lord.
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Post by spackle on Jun 28, 2013 7:47:05 GMT -5
That's all well and good, but isn't the decor a little cheep?
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