Walking home from work

[sabotabby]

In visual form, here is one thing that pissed me off on the walk home, and three things that didn't.

New Gaybortion: It's not violence. It's pest control.

And photos of more uplifting things:




Never let it be said that I don't appreciate good advertising.


Cheers to an anonymous comrade. I was going to fix this ad, but she got to it first.


Finally, I saw this guy. I know some of you live in less urban areas and see these guys all the time, but to spot a red-tailed hawk (I think that's what this dude is) at Bathurst and Dundas is kind of a big deal.

Comments

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Nice hawk. We have a good number around here, but it's still good to see them.

[sabotabby]

We've got them outside of the city; I see them when we drive on the highway. But never this close and downtown.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Hey, I regret not being aborted. Is there help for me too?

[sabotabby]

I was wondering that myself. About me, that is, not you.

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

Nah. I think the guy with the shirt from your comic should have been.

[sabotabby]

That goes without saying.

[nullstr.livejournal.com]

That icon is truly, grossly... awesome.
And use the punch next time ;)

[sabotabby]

I was asked not to use it on abortiondebate. Thus I must use it everywhere else.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

If only 102nd trimester abortions could have been legal. :-/

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

I've not seen any hawks in these here parts lately, but we did spot an eagle once. Is falconeering wrong? They always look so cool in the movies.

[sabotabby]

A friend of zingerella's is a falconer, and I think it's fairly awesome.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

The Bad-Tempered Goddess's birds (well, the birds she works with), all sound pretty well cared for. It's not like they're being used for anything inimical to their nature—they get to hunt for small animals, and when they don't hunt they get fresh small animal to eat, anyway.

Falconing is not something I really want to do, because dead baby animals, ew, and maggots too, but I don't think that the hawks mind.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

We get hawks in our courtyard at work. We had quite a show a while back when we got to see a hawk tear apart a pigeon. Besides being brutal, they're rather beautiful. We have parrots in the city! I see them once in a while.

Saw lots this weekend too out on the coast. And seals and Snowy egrets and elk and deer, and pelicans. :)

[sabotabby]

Oooh, the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill?

Sometimes I wish I lived closer to some actual nature.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I suppose they would be the same parrots. I loved that movie so much. I'm a sap.

The last time I saw parrots was at the Ferry building farmer's market.

Nate and I drove an hour out of the city to Point Reyes. Gorgeous and very nature-y. I want to camp out there every weekend now. I feel very lucky to live where I do.

Although, I've been up to Parry Sound- that's lovely and not too far from you huh? I forget. It's been a while

[nom-de-grr.livejournal.com]

When me and the Committee were heading toward Toronto, a hawk winged ridiculously close to the car, swooping just feet in front of the bumper. It startled me a little.

[sabotabby]

Yeah, there are a lot outside of Toronto, but not downtown.

[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA thats hilarious!! those are my friends' bands stickers all over the faces!!

I bet I know who did it, too...

[ironed_orchid]

I was wondering what those stickers were...

[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

the band is called Hostage Life

[sabotabby]

I have to listen to them now.

[goodlookinout.livejournal.com]

just a friend's punk band...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=7871738&ifid=7871738&indicate=2

:)

[ironed_orchid]

I'd offer to go to their gigs, but I live in Australia.

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, in the 70s, there didn't seem to be any birds of prey in Metro Detroit. But now it's not unusual to see several different kinds. Hawks are regular visitors to our backyard.

[sabotabby]

Maybe they're staging a takeover.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

There's a red-tailed hawk that lives around here. It nests on the RBU campus, and I think it might have a name, but I don't know the name. babble babble

here is a picture - unfortunately he's just a dot

[sabotabby]

He also appears to have received Christ.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Or christ has received him. I wasn't sure.

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

I love that picture of Bush.

[sabotabby]

I am pretty much against audio books on principle (because I can't follow them) but that ad made me crack right up.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

We have them here in Kentucky too - red tailed hawks, I mean. Once, a huge one landed in the campus courtyard to devour a squirrel it had killed. It was at least three feet tall, if my memory isn't magnifying things - the hawk, I mean. It was breathing heavily and hostilely eying the crowd of stupid students gathering around it while it was trying to eat. They are not all that common on campus which is why we have had albino squirrels on campus for ages.

I commented on your comment.

[sabotabby]

I saw. Shape up, Buddhists!

Your claim about albino squirrels requires photographic evidence. In exchange, I offer this story about an albino wombat.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Just Google "albino squirrel louisville."

This one is just outside of the history building.

They have been on campus since at least the 1930s.

[sabotabby]

It's cuuute.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I can't believe George Bush is doing ads to promote laziness and weakness of the mind, these days. Does he *really* need to supplement his income?

How *do* you help someone who regrets her abortion? Isn't it an irreversible process? I'm confused.

[sabotabby]

I wonder if they had to get his permission...

How *do* you help someone who regrets her abortion? Isn't it an irreversible process? I'm confused.

She could redeem herself in the eyes of the Lord by adopting a snowflake baby.