Fantastic Three?

Now, I'm not a huge comic book fan (at all). I've never read a comic, to be honest. But I can see how this would be a big deal.

Well, those who are really into the Fantastic Four, I'm sorry for the loss of one of the main characters. It's now Fantastic Three, which, if you ask me, doesn't have the same ring to it.

If you live in Tennessee I hope you're not Kabourophobic

Kabourophobia is the fear of crustaceans. 

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/ca/metro/jan11/crayfish-reuters-large.jpg 


And they've discovered a giant crayfish in Tennessee. Just thought you might want to know.

Want a pet Mammoth?

Because, apparently, researchers in Japan are going to try to clone one.

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images-5/wooly-mammoth.jpg

Um... I'm not so sure this is a good idea... Watch Jurassic Park. The may look warm and cuddly, but this isn't Ice Age, and they're huge creatures. And probably dangerous. We don't know what they were like, since all we have to go one are cave paintings of people holding spears. And, what if the mammoths found out we hunted their race to extinction? We don't know how smart they were, or what they were capable of.

And plus, can you imagine driving down a country rode, all peaceful-like, and seeing a mammoth x-ing sign, or a mammoth?

Angelness

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n72/n362224.jpg

First 81 pages of Angel! I've found another favourite character: Kate. She is awesome. Oh, and Max II has a name! Maya! (Thank goodness, the double Maxes got so darn confusing). Can you imagine the pranks she and Max could play on people? (If they could stop hating each other, we'd never have another peaceful moment.) And on question... where is Total during all of this? Off with Akila? 


Anyway. I pretty much sat in front of the computer grinning so hard it hurt. I practically fainted from the excitement of it all.


I CAN'T WAIT FOR FEB. 14!


First time I've ever looked forward to Valentines day. Maximum Ride: Angel shall be released. And I shall weep with joy (and maybe sadness, if the book is sad).


So Excited! 

Dangerous Kinder egg!

So, apparently, a Canadian woman was stopped at the border for a random search, and confiscated her of a two-dollar Kinder Surprise egg. They told her she could have been fined 300 dollars US if they found it while she was still in the states.

Wait, what? Apparently the eggs are banned in the US because small children chould swallow and choke on the toy inside. I don't know about them, but I always figured a kid got a kinder surprise specifically so they could play with the toy inside, not eat it.

and on top of that, they mailed this woman a seven page letter asking for permission to destroy the egg. I bet someone at the border would eat it if they "got permission to destroy it."

Impending Doom? Or another of those media-hypes-that-turn-out-to-be-nothing?

So it  turns out its not just blackbirds. Now we have a global mass die off trend. Depressing much? But are the blackbirds really the tip of the iceberg? Is it one of those things that is really making a mountain out of a mole hill? Can I use any more idioms to describe this situation?

Katie

P.S. Mass fish die-off? Remind anyone of a book about a certain group of bird kids? Hmmm.... weird.

Um... I'm gonna go with "No Comment"

I'm not one to bash anything quirky (honestly, I LIVE for the little quirks in my everyday life) but this... well. I'm pretty much lost for words. I mean, its interesting what people will do for their birds, but not being a birds-as-pets kind of person myself, I personally think this is a little, you know, over board. They have outfits, and leashes and diapers. How do you even get a bird into a Christmas hoodie?

Wow

A grade five girl discovered a super-nova! That is awesome

And they don't really know what killed the blackbirds.

Common Misconceptions

Here are the to ten myths about Canadians, according to canadians.ca.

 Just, you know, thought I'd post it. Okay. Over and out.

Happy New Year!

Oh yes. Nothing like waking up to the new year with a dead blackbird on your lawn. Talk about depressing. Possibilities: freak hail storm (one question, does this hail have a grudge? You'd think it would hit all birds, not just one species). Scared to death by fireworks (hmm... maybe... sounds more likely than a vengeful hail storm).

Poor people in Beebe, who now have to deal with dead blackbirds. And poor, poor blackbirds. Sigh. I bet its the humans fault, because spontaneous multiple blackbird deaths are, you know, not exactly natural.

That's depressing.

Well, later then,

K

P.S. They fly in flocks? I always assumed they were solitary, because you never see more than one at a time around here. Wow. I feel so uneducated on the flocking patterns of blackbirds.