animals

It's been pretty quiet on the blog front lately.

The new year rushed in got me in it's jaws and hasn't stopped shaking.

Yes, just like a pit bull. In a good way though. A semi-stressful, definitely changing things up kind of a good way.

I have this pizza in the oven that I am going to eat like a cartoon of a person eating a pizza. Then I am going to head back out into the mushy night. So this may turn into a 2 parter, no it's definitely a 2 maybe even a 3 parter, fuck I have months to catch up on.

I put Lola down a few weeks ago.

I thought that after I did I would have this craving to write a blog entry about her, or about the experience of putting her down, but I haven't had any such craving.

It's strange because the lead-up was so intense, so troubling, as close to a moral crisis as I've ever experienced, and maybe my hesitance is because I don't think I can do justice to all the different feelings and thoughts I had in the months leading up to the decision.

She was one of the most wonderful creatures I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, but she was also bound up with painful memories about my family, and uncomfortable memories about my behavior when I was a young adult and a teenager.

This albino dolphin, and an ambiguous Korean love song

First things, I watched Little Miss Sunshine for the millionth time the other night and decided to go (acquire - soon to read buy) the soundtrack. And it's fricking fabulous, just like the movie.

The only drawback to listening to music so full of passion, whimsy and boundless emotion is that despite sitting on a crowded metro with sweaty feet and an itchy scarf around the neck, I was still moved to tears by this song. So I had to stare very hard at an advertisement for a certified accounting course.

De VotchKa - You Love Me (Remix)
De VotchKa - How it Ends
Mychael Danna and De VotchKa - Let's Go
It's a song cycle so the melody stays pretty uniform across the album, except for "Superfreak" By Rick James.

Then this morning Jen drew my attention to a picture of a baby Lemur in an incubator, with a teddy bear:

Oh dodo.