Squirrels At Work
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.
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.
Comment by rakkity — September 27, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
Some pretty funny stuff by Eric Mayer, but it’s the article on squirrels that drew my attention.
Comment by michael — September 27, 2007 @ 9:13 pm
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 …
Comment by adam — September 27, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
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.
Comment by michael — September 28, 2007 @ 7:40 am
And who possesses the “conventional wisdom” that “all squirrels lose their fur indoors” (and for what possible reason … )?
Comment by el Kib — September 28, 2007 @ 8:38 am
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.
Comment by Jennifer — September 29, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
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.
Comment by Jen — October 3, 2007 @ 12:48 pm