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FreeWill Lets The Wookiee Win
Aug. 19th, 2016 10:29 pmSome species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse -- especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works.
This summer there has been a mice infestation here at Rather Manor. We don't know how many of them there are, but their droppings are firm evidence of their movements around the premises.
Dad found one of them dead this morning. It had drowned in the kitchen wash basin. I'd had a moral dilemma about buying poison baits to use against the mice, partly because of fear of the possible impact on the surrounding wildlife. I guess this might be a sign to let stupidity take care of its own.
FP
FreeWill And My. Little. Pony.
Aug. 5th, 2014 08:18 pmLake Superior State University issues a "Unicorn Questing Privilege" to those people who are interested in hunting for unicorns. Are you one of them? I wouldn't be surprised if you felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial for you to entertain. (You can get your Unicorn Questing License here.)
I'm already trying to build the perfect beast in the form of the Gundam RedLegger mobile suit. It doesn't need to be a Unicorn...those are already done.
Beast Of Burden (FreeWill)
Nov. 20th, 2013 04:40 pmCosta Rica will be closing its zoos in 2014. What will happen to the 400 or so animals that are housed there? They will have to be rehabilitated at animal rescue centers and then released into the wild. I suspect there will be a metaphorically similar process going on for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Parts of your instinctual nature will, in a sense, be freed from captivity. You will need to find ways to retrain your animal intelligence how to function outside of the tame conditions it got used to.
Am I hard enough?/Am I rough enough?/Am I rich enough?/I'm not too blind to see!
I'm a Horse. I need my stable.
The Paradigm Shift Of The Century?
May. 13th, 2013 04:32 pmAll I wonder about this is if the rest of the "funny animal" cartoon franchises will follow suit...and what it means if/when they do.
What happens when Felix de-Cats and Mickey de-Mouses? Will the Tunes stay Looney with Bugs, Porky, Daffy, Wiley E., and Speedy as shaved apes? Does Darkwing need to be a Duck to Get Dangerous?
What are your thoughts?
Writer's Block: Night tremors
Oct. 27th, 2011 03:02 pmBarking canines. At about 2AM overnight, EVERY SINGLE ONE in a two or three mile radius had to go berzerk and howl or scream or belch or whatever.
Writer's Block: Into the wild
Aug. 9th, 2011 11:26 pmI likely wouldn't. Mostly because I get along so poorly with animals to begin with that the effort would fail miserably.
One And The Same?
Aug. 5th, 2011 06:48 pmMostly his junk. Got a piece the other day from the Warner Brothers video club, since we're sorta signed up with them, in spite of never actually buying anything from them. Header said "Cartoon classics..." Only it wasn't Looney Tunes they were pushing--it was old Hanna-Barbera stuff from the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties. (And I don't mean THEIR really old stuff from the Sixties!)
All of a sudden I wonder if there might be a shotgun marriage in the works between Bugs Bunny and Yogi Bear. Ugh. Why is youth culture in America SO OLD?
Yes, I Skipped April Fool's Day. So What?
Apr. 2nd, 2011 03:42 pmYear of the Horse. Very appropriate for me.
Writer's Block: Two words: Charlie Brown
Nov. 24th, 2010 09:21 amMum's really into the Dog Show.
Writer's Block: No bloody way
Jul. 1st, 2010 12:30 pmDepends on what they hunt. Really, I already AM friends with hunters, you can't avoid it in these parts. And I'm not sentimental about wild animals, after all, if you were in the wild, how do you think they'd treat you? Now, those who mistreat domesticated animals or farm animals--that's a completely different story.
With FreeWill, You Get What You Pay For
Apr. 14th, 2010 12:04 amAccording to Us Weekly, baseball star Alex Rodriguez owns two paintings of himself in which he's portrayed as half-man, half-horse. This is an excellent time for you to be inspired by his example. Gazing at a picture of a mythical centaur who looks like you would speak to your subconscious mind in just the right way. Bypassing your rational ego, that stirring icon would animate and cultivate the wise animal in you. It would stimulate the sweet spot where your physical vitality overlaps your visionary intelligence. Do you know anyone who could Photoshop this powerful image for you?
Could do it myself...but don't need to. In our modest family art collection, we have two black velvet paintings of matadors in action against nasty-looking bulls. I suppose that would have to be the visual metaphor for my own psyche--the human, thinking, civilized side in conflict with the raging, energetic, and implacable beast that is the combination of the gross body and the subconscious. Again, the red/blue dichotomy...there is one painting with the matador in red, and the other matador wears blue, and the poses say different things.
Unfortunately for me I can't bring the pictures out to show you now. I promise to return to this theme in a future Pilot's Log.
Find ants in the Raisin Bran -- √
Get visited by family friends -- √
Get scanner working for the first time since the virus attack last month -- √
Fish sandwich -- √
Go to Knoxville for IPMS meet -- √
Call Aleks' sister -- √
Go back online -- √
I think that's about it. With not much longer to spare.
On the CBS News this evening, they reported about a two-birds-with-one-stone solution to an invasive species problem--recipies for Asian Carp (which have been running amok in the upper Mississippi and threaten the Great Lakes as I type this)!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6205751n
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/12/ap/tech/main6201744.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/11/politics/main6197684.shtml
While Bill Cosby said that Americans will eat anything if it fits between two slices of bread, I just wonder if Asian Carp goes with Freedom Fries.
