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England Calling
Mar. 7th, 2016 11:07 pm12 days until the vernal equinox
The weekend was the last tough stretch of winter to get through, I think, and I hope.
The bobwhite and one of the swans were released. We have a swan, a squirrel, a big brown bat, a hawk who's been around since before Atlas Lab was a band, a mourning dove.
Michael found a field mouse in a bucket along with his friend, or what was left of him. He was thirsty and was eating some bits of snow but he didn't seem to want any of the apple Zack gave him. "Last time I ate, I got stuck in a bucket." He probably jumped in because they're pretty good jumpers.
Tyler said he was going to sit there and look sad, or maybe that's what Jacob suggested he do. I actually missed the context of this.
He told a mourning dove "Was that delicious? No, didn't think so." and then "Don't see us. If you get comfortable with us, you'll get attacked by a cooper's hawk." and I think he almost gave him the wrong food or put him in the wrong cage so he's like "it's new. I hate new. I want the same thing." and Jacob said modos hate change.
We started out with 11 baby squirrels and now we're down to seven. One of the squirrels was pregnant and if you know what you're looking for on the x-rays and if you had the x-rays and since I don't have them, you're not going to have them either, you can see vaguely squirrel-shaped blobs. They might be on Facebook but Facebook search is an assload of fuck.
"It wasn't our fault they died. It was their fault for being bruised."
We've never really used the ultrasound and we're looking for an excuse to use it.
Tiffany made salads that looked tasty aside from the somewhat overripe squash spiral-cut into mush she brought in. She says that humans are pickier than they need to be. In other words, that squash probably is edible. It just won't taste that great. People will eat anything that won't kill them, and by anything, I mean anything, and by anything, I mean fermented squid and also dovekies that have been fermenting in a sewn up seal carcass.
Nigel gets a salad with rapini and cilantro garnish. He's 22 years old so obviously it's working.
There was a wet dog odor in boarding.
She told Tyler that he could have some of her raw juice and that it tastes like compost. Uhhhh, phrasing.
A woman brought in her Russian tortoise. She also has a Bernese mountain dog, a Russian blue cat which is slate gray and most likely has jade green eyes, and a hermit crab she claims she's had since 1994.
Tiffany says "I'm not super into science fiction but I do love a good dystopia."
I told her about how Ian MacLeod is related to Donald Trump, who is totally dystopian by the way, and the settings of The Light Ages, which depicts an England where a magical substance aether was discovered and society became ossified into a guild system and stifled the development of technology, and The Summer Isles, which depicts an England after a fascist revolution and a very British fascism unlike Italian or German style fascism. Actually, it seems to be a lot like German fascism, only virulently anti-Irish , I haven't read it yet, and I'm not going to read it for a while. As beautifully written as The Light Ages is, it's definitely a downer.
German fascism won, by the way, except it's riding on a wave of anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiments and not anti-Jewish sentiments. Arab fascism limps on even after Gadaffi's death, propped up by Russia and still as ugly as ever. No concessions will be made. Nothing will ever change.
She says that the Republicans are too chickenshit to run one of the moderates (relatively speaking, of course) as an independent candidate and they won't get any votes. We're not going to see the dissolution of the Republican party that we want but we might see them fragment into their constituent parts.
She brought up Trump's Nazi salute and I brought up Bolt Bus and the British Union of Fascists.
And Michael said that he learned a possible reason fascism didn't actually take hold in Britain: because they were the largest empire on the planet. Fascism appealed to countries like Italy and Japan, which were late to the empire-building party, or Spain and Portugal, which lost their empires long ago, or Germany, which was late to the party and then lost their empire.
There was actually a Scottish fascist party that decided to drop anti-Semitism from their platform and become anti-Irish instead. Membership numbered somewhere in the single digits.
Incidentally, the dispute between Italian Fascism and German Fascism reminds me of the dispute between the Mad Geniuses and the Popoli, except the Mad Geniuses are extreme constitutionalists who want to undo most reforms made after 1860: end direct election of senators, bring back poll taxes, end birthright citizenship, go full on Starship Troopers and make citizenship something you have to earn, restrict voting to taxpayers for good measure.
burning question: Abalin, Abalin, do you love him loud enough to listen when he's calling?
The weekend was the last tough stretch of winter to get through, I think, and I hope.
The bobwhite and one of the swans were released. We have a swan, a squirrel, a big brown bat, a hawk who's been around since before Atlas Lab was a band, a mourning dove.
Michael found a field mouse in a bucket along with his friend, or what was left of him. He was thirsty and was eating some bits of snow but he didn't seem to want any of the apple Zack gave him. "Last time I ate, I got stuck in a bucket." He probably jumped in because they're pretty good jumpers.
Tyler said he was going to sit there and look sad, or maybe that's what Jacob suggested he do. I actually missed the context of this.
He told a mourning dove "Was that delicious? No, didn't think so." and then "Don't see us. If you get comfortable with us, you'll get attacked by a cooper's hawk." and I think he almost gave him the wrong food or put him in the wrong cage so he's like "it's new. I hate new. I want the same thing." and Jacob said modos hate change.
We started out with 11 baby squirrels and now we're down to seven. One of the squirrels was pregnant and if you know what you're looking for on the x-rays and if you had the x-rays and since I don't have them, you're not going to have them either, you can see vaguely squirrel-shaped blobs. They might be on Facebook but Facebook search is an assload of fuck.
"It wasn't our fault they died. It was their fault for being bruised."
We've never really used the ultrasound and we're looking for an excuse to use it.
Tiffany made salads that looked tasty aside from the somewhat overripe squash spiral-cut into mush she brought in. She says that humans are pickier than they need to be. In other words, that squash probably is edible. It just won't taste that great. People will eat anything that won't kill them, and by anything, I mean anything, and by anything, I mean fermented squid and also dovekies that have been fermenting in a sewn up seal carcass.
Nigel gets a salad with rapini and cilantro garnish. He's 22 years old so obviously it's working.
There was a wet dog odor in boarding.
She told Tyler that he could have some of her raw juice and that it tastes like compost. Uhhhh, phrasing.
A woman brought in her Russian tortoise. She also has a Bernese mountain dog, a Russian blue cat which is slate gray and most likely has jade green eyes, and a hermit crab she claims she's had since 1994.
Tiffany says "I'm not super into science fiction but I do love a good dystopia."
I told her about how Ian MacLeod is related to Donald Trump, who is totally dystopian by the way, and the settings of The Light Ages, which depicts an England where a magical substance aether was discovered and society became ossified into a guild system and stifled the development of technology, and The Summer Isles, which depicts an England after a fascist revolution and a very British fascism unlike Italian or German style fascism. Actually, it seems to be a lot like German fascism, only virulently anti-Irish , I haven't read it yet, and I'm not going to read it for a while. As beautifully written as The Light Ages is, it's definitely a downer.
German fascism won, by the way, except it's riding on a wave of anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiments and not anti-Jewish sentiments. Arab fascism limps on even after Gadaffi's death, propped up by Russia and still as ugly as ever. No concessions will be made. Nothing will ever change.
She says that the Republicans are too chickenshit to run one of the moderates (relatively speaking, of course) as an independent candidate and they won't get any votes. We're not going to see the dissolution of the Republican party that we want but we might see them fragment into their constituent parts.
She brought up Trump's Nazi salute and I brought up Bolt Bus and the British Union of Fascists.
And Michael said that he learned a possible reason fascism didn't actually take hold in Britain: because they were the largest empire on the planet. Fascism appealed to countries like Italy and Japan, which were late to the empire-building party, or Spain and Portugal, which lost their empires long ago, or Germany, which was late to the party and then lost their empire.
There was actually a Scottish fascist party that decided to drop anti-Semitism from their platform and become anti-Irish instead. Membership numbered somewhere in the single digits.
Incidentally, the dispute between Italian Fascism and German Fascism reminds me of the dispute between the Mad Geniuses and the Popoli, except the Mad Geniuses are extreme constitutionalists who want to undo most reforms made after 1860: end direct election of senators, bring back poll taxes, end birthright citizenship, go full on Starship Troopers and make citizenship something you have to earn, restrict voting to taxpayers for good measure.
burning question: Abalin, Abalin, do you love him loud enough to listen when he's calling?
