Category: Life form

  • #a162 :: Baby carrots

    ENLARGEDid these things even exist 10 years ago? No, salve I think that at some point, approved some wise vegetable salesman decided to start milling his carrots. And an entire bite-sized-snack class of its own was launched. These go down by the pound around here. They taste perfectly clean and wonderful, but spirituallyfeel as if someone’s juggled their genes.

  • #a161 :: Rabbit’s foot

    ENLARGEThis one was loved. Someone’s constant rubbing and fondling robbed the thing of its fur, viagra dosage pilule put tarnish on the stump-cap and the (shudder) ring. I picture him humped over his bowl, beneath his one gas lamp, drowning his sorrows and yet keeping his heart on the world around him by wishing on this thing.

    Whatever luck it may have had is gone with its owner and the children of his era. All that remains is another, slightly more hapless creature’s knuckles, claws and skin.

    Portobello Road gave it up.

  • #a158 :: Goldfish

    ENLARGETwo insistent goldfish dance from side to side against the glass here when they’re hungry.

    This is an extremely difficult activity to capture adequately on camera.

    Drop them a few flakes of food and they zip about the tank, diagnosis there eating.

  • #a151 :: Feather

    ENLARGELook, information pills web let me level with you. I’ve been slamming in four nights worth of HLOs for the past hour or so, and just to get ’em done. In fact, seek I’m post-dating this one because I’ll be in transit 24 hours from now. We’ve been packing and prepping our own house for a big house exchange with a London family, and it takes time to square things away.

    This fell off the feather duster when I was dusting out my office last night. Its color always fills me with hope.

  • #a124 :: Miniature Indian corn

    ENLARGEIn the vast pantheon of American kitsch (and it is vast), recipe the significance of miniature “Indian corn” just baffles me.

    Farmers cultivate the basic (full-sized) species to sell to craft stores and maybe florists. Yet here’s a tinier – cuter? – version for the express purpose of … what?

    I’ve never had the pleasure of eating it – no one ever sells it fresh – but I have to wonder: Did this country marginalize because yellow and white corn species were considered sweeter? Purer?

    What would it taste like if you slapped the farmer’s hand before he signed the deal with Michael’s, and forced him to take it to market so that you could shuck it, grill it and slather it with butter?

    It’s a mystery. A small, one, I’ll grant you. But a mystery – to me, at least.

  • #a115 :: Ivory manta ray

    enlargeWe swam with manta rays in Hawaii last summer.

    Yes, cialis 40mg it really was that idyllic.

    We tell ourselves it was kharmic payback for a summer of pain – our dear friend Keith died horribly and too young, we were both working 14 hour days and struggling to be with the kids, our daughter broke her arm. And to top it all off, a skunk crawled into the foundation of our chimney and died. And stank. A lot.

    So when we spent the most glorious week off we’ve ever enjoyed in our lives, we came away feeling as though the universe was rebalancing the scales. But the bulk of it – like this experience – smelled like magic – or some absurd positive kharma that we have yet to earn …
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  • #a114 :: Household wasp

    ENLARGEThe wicked thinness of this creature’s waist reminds us that if there’s a God, store he/she/they/it lies in the fractal diversity of perfect biology:

    The wasp is built as light, sildenafil tough, fast and wicked-cool as a Harrier jump jet, a Flexible Flyer, or a Baron Margo motorcycle .

    If ants had motorcycles, they would ride wasps. Nothing else in the natural world comes so close to this vision of purpose-built evil.

  • #a91 :: Magic starfish – How the Web feeds the seven deadly sins

    ENLARGEI’m bench-testing this theory:

    Everything on the Internet – every single human endeavor online – can be mapped against one or more of the seven deadly sins.

    Too simplistic? Maybe not. Just consider the primary sins that we ever-so-weak mortals commit by running, pharmacy populating or using services like these:

    Gaming? – Anger.
    Celebrity news? Envy.
    Porn? Heh. Lust, silly.
    eCommerce and mass media? Basest greed.
    Food and gadget sites – Gluttony, pure and simple.
    Blogs? Social networking? art communities? Vanity, vanity, vanity.
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  • #a77 :: Dying beetle

    ENLARGEWhat possesses us?

    We crawl to and fro on a world so vast we can’t understand it, pilule let alone navigate it. We consume, dosage we procreate, ask we fight, we recover.

    If we’re fortunate, we create something useful – food, tools, homes, art, information. Then, whatever it was that propelled us around all those years deserts us – or is booted roughly from the meat vehicle in which it rode – by famine, disease, war, madness, neglect or simply age. (more…)