Rakkity emailed this to me today. Some might find it cute, but as one who has waged full scale assaults on those critters, all I can think of is where did I put my rifle. You might want to turn your sound off. The background music will Velcro itself to your gray matter.
rakkity
A friend of mine in Maryland has been fighting squirrels for years. He finally made a baffle on the supports for their bird feeder that kept all but one squirrel out. (The genius of the tribe.) He hasn’t seen that particular squirrel for a while, and he kind of misses him.
michael
Some pretty funny stuff by Eric Mayer, but it’s the article on squirrels that drew my attention.
adam
I can see the appeal of lines like this:
“If there is anything uglier than a hairless squirrel it is a hairless squirrel caked in thick layers of pink calamine lotion.” Sentences few acquire cause to write …
michael
Well put. His family reminded me a little of the one in Running With Scissors. I know mine had quirks, but we never had a pet squirrel running free in the house. Snakes, sure, but not squirrels.
el Kib
And who possesses the “conventional wisdom” that “all squirrels lose their fur indoors” (and for what possible reason … )?
Jennifer
It’s too hot. Just a wag.
And a tidbit about Running with Scissors: My mother was friends with his mother while I was growing up, which must have overlapped with when he was growing up. But I haven’t read/seen it.
Jen
I loved the book, loved the movie and have read some of his other stuff. Augustin Burroughs is a damaged human being who find humor in places where I would (and do) cringe. I guess that is one of the side effects of abandonment and repression.