2/18/2008

The warm weather made the animals extremely active at the zoo today-- polar bears wrestled underwater, penguins breached, the lions were actually roaring, a tiger cub tackled his mother, and the rattlesnakes and cobras slithered in their tanks (it was also the first time I've ever seen a Gila monster move)-- but my most exciting animal encounter occurred at this 6:30 this morning, while I was recording some music: I was wearing headphones, the house was quiet, and I was immersed in the sound of the drum machine and backing guitar, when a large black bug fell from the ceiling and landed on my pick-hand; it was either a spider or some kind of beetle, but I flung it off so quickly that I didn't identify it, and I'm very proud that I didn't shriek loudly enough to wake the house (completely unrelated: on the way home from the zoo we passed a nursery and their placard read Pot Sale . . . Not that Kind!)
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2008 at 6:50 PM

    Now that's the sentence I've been waiting for: parallel structure, semicolons, dashes, and don't get me started on the little non sequitur at the end. Well done, my friend.

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  2. DaveFebruary 19, 2008 at 2:04 PM

    thanks! although there are some that say "brevity is the soul of wit," but i don't really care abou them, because who wants to be brief when you can be long-winded-- especially on a blog, where you don't even feel bad about wasting paper. did i tell you i saw a golf ball stuck in the pavement? i think it got run over by a steam-roller . . .

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