The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Stefan Jones:

Pasta sauce, applied!

#85: Google, Google, Yup! "I Love the Mountains."

http://parentingteens.about.com/library/sp/gs/blsongs7.htm

#426: I saw the video. My GAWD.

There's also this story, with close-ups of her hand, showing her talking points:

Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes

"Energy," "BudgetTax Cuts," and "Lift American Spirits."

I can't wait for John Stewart to chew on this.

I just sent this to a whole bunch of folks.

If they don't appreciate it, I'm not talking to them ever again.

Boomdeyada.

#426: She could have done that interview with the CEO of Throwing Kittens in a Wood Chipper, Inc., whispering in her ear as she spoke, and they would still have loved her.

Remember the SubGenius mottos:

"Act like a dumbfuck and they'll treat you like an equal."

"You'll pay us to tell you what you really think!"

Tom Tancredo addresses the Tea Party Convention:

And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word "vote," or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Pardon my language but . . . what a fucking asshole.

And the worst part are the cheers from the audience.

Santa:

It's been 45 years.

Still no pony.

You bastard.

Best Wishes,

Stefan

P.S. I finally went and got the puppy on my own, thank you very much. Prick.

#259: Any increase in misery in Colorado Springs after a cutback in government services will be blamed on Mexicans, gays, liberal ideas in school textbooks, and a lack of taxpayer-funded Ten Commandments displays in public spaces.

#208:

Or cows helping change the tire of the truck "taking them to market."

#213: Ah, I think your friend nailed it!

None of the images I found via Google is exactly match the coat color pattern, but the build and size and coat texture of the critter Kira found and ate is close to them. Probably just one of the many variations.

Thanks!

#180: Thanks for the research!

Kira is German Shepherd sized.

The thing was about 10" long without the tail, say squirrel sized but pretty solidly built.

It had fur, but that was short.

I was expecting that Kira would drop it when I startled her with the flash. That is what happened right after I took this shot a few years ago:

http://home.comcast.net/~stefan_jones/kira_squirrel_lo.JPG

This time she hung onto her prize, and it was shortly in process of being munched up, starting with the head.

#172: I've seen nutria. So has my dog; she can spot one amidst a pond full of geese & ducks and immediately go into "want to kill!" mode.

But this would have to be a very small nutria about a mile from the nearest body of water.

Everything about the critter screamed "mole," except for its nose and its size.

#93: I live in the Portland OR area.

It's definitely not an opossum.

Someone suggested a woodchuck. Maybe, but it doesn't have the same roly-poly ground-beaver look a groundhog has. But dead wet creatures can look very different than their fluffy live selves.

I added a better shot of the creature's head.

J.D. Salinger dead at 91.

Ah. Out here we call it "Whole Paycheck."

I've been inside the local one twice, once out of curiosity and once to see if they had bacala.

Didn't buy anything. Won't ever, now. Trader Joe's is just as easy to get to.

Can anyone identify this giant mole-like animal my dog found? (And ATE . . .)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/4311353641/

#16: 120 most likely; the wide rolls with metal spools.

When there was a rumor the B&W was going out of production Lee bought crates of the stuff . . .

#2: Hey, someone else noticed!

My father had a little darkroom under the stairs when he was a kid. I used his equipment for a little while, and also joined the photography club at the local Boy's Club.

My sister was more enthusiastic about shooting and developing. I don't think she ever got an enlarger; I know we had a wooden contact print box and that's about it.

Someday I'll have to try to explain film photography to my nieces. They are enthusiastic photographers, but I don't think they've ever seen, much less operated, a film camera.

No, I take that back. A certain world-renowned photographer is married to my mother's cousin and always has his camera with him at family get-togethers. He wouldn't touch a digital camera, much less use it. FWIW, he uses 126 roll film.

I'm really, really glad that those tax measures passed, but I'm especially glad that the ADVERTISING is over.

Especially on TV and radio.

The "yes" adverts had a breathless, whiny tone, but the "no" spots were like root canal. Grinding, ominous music, bulshyt about government "not tightening its belt like the rest of us."

"Filmmaker Who Broke ACORN Story Arrested For Attempted Bugging Of Landrieu's Office"

That's Senator Landrieu's office.

"The AP is reporting that Flanagan [one of those arrested] is the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport."

Flanagan is a Bush appointee.

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