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| This morning's dawn taken at the dock down the beach from us |
Seriously, why is there a spider the size of Australia hanging on my window’s screen? We don’t have arthropods like this in New England—the fuck’s it doing here? 
WHY would a horror movie beastie visit me? Possibly, with my endless health battles, it’s visiting to offer kind words and tender thoughts. I should’ve invited them in for tea and crumpets with clotted cream. SO thoughtful and yet I ignored them, hoping they'd go away quickly.
God, I’m such a misanthropic, socially banjaxed thing.
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I had my annual general physical yesterday. Considering how many specialists I see, Dr. Schoenbaum isn’t left with a lot to to comment on. I’ve gained ten pounds over this past year. I blame all the fatigue inducing treatments—radiation, chemo, outpatient rehab AND summer (AKA ice cream season). Mind you, I was wearing my big heavy sneaks when I got on the scale. That accounts for…what…a whole two pounds? Yeah, on top of chemo, ongoing independent rehab and trying to paint again, I gotta get my weight back under control.
*sigh*
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I’ve muted, blocked, unfollowed and defriended so many offensive people on social media that I wonder if I’m now living in an echo chamber. BUT…do I care? Not really. I read the news, I know the smegma breathed, shitheelian twatzillas exist. I've read their fact-free opinions, theories and lies. Unlike the Q types and Republimorons, I’m able to learn and process new fact-based concepts even when they’re hard, scary, enraging and painful.
I don’t need to invite lie spewing, vulgarian halfwits into my online home.
Speaking of which, these people are insane!
A high school student's mural angers parents over what they say are hidden messages
School district officials and a high school student in Michigan have drawn the ire of parents who allege that a painted mural contains LGBTQ propaganda, a depiction of Satan and a message of witchcraft. (source)
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| Nero—NOT a looker |
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A short story collection that I totally need to reread—The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury“…a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story…” (source)I believe I’d also like to view the movie despite Roger Ebert’s unfavorable review. It came out 53 years ago—I can’t believe I’ve never seen it!. It’s based on three of the tales—The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World.
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The first wild bison, in thousands of years, was born in the UK, of all places. How wild is this mini-herd?
The bison are currently in a five-hectare (12-acre) enclosure, as they adapt to their new lives and their health is closely monitored. They will be moved to an area of 50-hectare next and then, next summer, the full 200-hectare site.
The bison will live entirely wild lives, but came from parks where they were given supplemental feed, which they are now being weaned off. “It’s very small amounts and they are getting the majority of their food from natural foraging,” said Gibb.
The project is gathering lots of scientific information to assess the rewilding impact of the bison, which will be helped by Exmoor ponies and Iron Age pigs from early 2023. A second large area will have wild-living long-horn cattle instead of bison, and a third area without the animals will be a control area for the conservation experiment. (source)
Semi-wild may be a better term. They’re not in a zoo but they’re not exactly living in grasslands or open savannas.
And on that note, happy Friday!
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