Eve tempted Adam with an apple, you know I ain't going for that

[truepenny]

1. We have a new car. The elderly psychotic Swedish car had devolved into panic attacks (the car started setting the car alarm off randomly--and silently, so it was like panic attacks IN MIME) and we finally just said fuck it, and bought a new (used) 2009 Subaru Forester. With all-wheel drive, which I am going to be loving come next winter, I tell you what.

2. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a hawk cam, which as I type this is showing three fluffy baby hawks. (Ooh, and a parent just showed up with a small dead thing. Rock on.)

3. And speaking of fluffy!cams: Kitten Cam! (via heresluck)

4. Not a cam, but to complete the fluffy trifecta: Clouded Leopard cub getting some really primo chin skritches.

5. Neil Gaiman likes my Sandman essay!¹ This is the first time in my life I've written an analytical essay about a work by someone who's still alive to have an opinion. And he likes it! I have some cognitive dissonance, but it is the most awesome dissonance in the history of things that jar your brain when you put them together.

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¹@neilhimself For the record CHICKS DIG COMICS contains the best SANDMAN essay I've read & I've read too many. http://bit.ly/GT3TLe Well done @pennyvixen<sup>2

2</sup>Oh, come on. How could I not footnote at a time like this?

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

8:45 EST, the hawks are eating. Mama hawk, (or dad,) giving them meat. They are fluffy, and very hungry!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Going by the wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk), I think that's Mama.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

I know it was her pink Cadilac. ;)

[slashpile.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, the chin skritches and hawk babies are awesome. (We have an annual goosecam here, but they haven't hatched yet: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/pets/Edmonton%20Journal%20Goosecam/6454577/story.html)

And omgosh congrats on the Gaiman nod. Obviously worthy of a footnote!

[heresluck]

1. ...yeah, we knew that was coming.

2. Cool!

3. I AM STILL NOT OVER THIS. They're so bouncy-pouncy right now!

4. MUFFIN. The wee pink toes! The spotted tummy!

5. Okay, that is, like, extra-super awesome. Go you. (For all the problems with the diss, this was never one of them.)

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the new wheels and your delicious, tasty ego-boo. Also, I have to go fall over from the cute.