i have tried thousands of times to post to the blog. none of them have worked. below is what i wrote yesterday. if it doesnt work this time, im going to Aruba, where nobody mocks me--especially not freeware computer programs.
ok. it took a lot of doing, but i managed to read every single one of the posts that you prolific bastards have vomited onto the blog since i last tread upon these waters (i was promoted to jesus, FYI), and i have to say that jen was seriously misrepresenting the possum. it wasnt what you would call ugly. instead, it was this enormous, sad-looking animal that seemed on the verge of some great insight into the meaning of its life, and then we stumbled into its life and just ruined the whole thing. i would have given it a little loving if i wasnt a nancy boy.
i think the idea of a feral cat is the coolest thing ive ever heard. this is in light of an incident here in the states, in St. Louis, in which a pack of stray (feral) city dogs attacked and devoured a child. people blamed, of all things, THE MOTHER. now, with all due respect to the Offical Blog Mother's Union, i have to say that mothers ride their high horses sometimes (the million mom march?! come the hell on); but i dont think that joe law should have run directly to that poor woman and slathered her with blame just because people cant deal with randomness, or the idea that they havent in fact conquered nature, or the fact that human beings can be prey instead of predators. none of these things were her fault, but this didnt matter to the people of St. Louis. they needed answers, and if you pretend for a moment that answers are food, then that poor mother's head looked like a big, juicy ham to the slavering mob. i say, there need to be more feral animals. people should have to defend themselves from mountain lions between the curb and their cars. polecats should leap at them around every corner. people need to remember that we're still fair game to a lot of hungry animals that are bigger and faster than us. and anyway, think of it--your daily life could be cooler than an episode of Wild Kingdom. you could make that Crocodile Hunter look like the boy in the bubble.
congratulations on the new web site/domain, kate. i hope you dont mind, but i'd rather not have another email address. i already have four active accounts, plus another one i should be using but im not. if you really, really want me to have one, though, i could be convinced to take paully@ cause i dont have an email address with paully on it, and i have plenty of respectable job-type ones.
congratulations also on a (somewhat) successful camping venture. whenever jen and i camp, we bicker about how to set up the tent (it takes longer than 38 seconds), then we make a fire without passing out and falling hands-first into it, and then jen gets naked. at some point in there we cook dinner, too. it's a lot of fun, except for when the lake is behind a green chain link fence and we see seven tube tops between the check-in cabin and our camp site; then it's just another night at Saylorville Lake.
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