Comments on: Reptile of the Week http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:24:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: crow http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24830 crow Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:46:31 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24830 Is seed tick like seed pearl? Oh, that's bad. Apologies. Mona Lisa occurred to me also. She looks like she's positively smiling for the camera. Great photo. And all your fans on the Feminist mailing lists wish you well. And that you find a non-discriminating (?) swimming hole. Is seed tick like seed pearl? Oh, that’s bad. Apologies.

Mona Lisa occurred to me also. She looks like she’s positively smiling for the camera.

Great photo.

And all your fans on the Feminist mailing lists wish you well. And that you find a non-discriminating (?) swimming hole.

]]> By: thebewilderness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24795 thebewilderness Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:33:34 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24795 Bewitching. Winsome. Spiny. I think this is a charming description of Twisty and her commenters as much as it is this delightful lizard. I hope you are well on your way to a full recovery from your recent ordeal. Bewitching. Winsome. Spiny.

I think this is a charming description of Twisty and her commenters as much as it is this delightful lizard. I hope you are well on your way to a full recovery from your recent ordeal.

]]> By: Betsy http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24794 Betsy Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:21:24 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24794 Baby ticks = seed ticks. Ugh, ugh!! Baby ticks = seed ticks. Ugh, ugh!!

]]> By: slim slow slider http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24790 slim slow slider Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:16:48 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24790 Apologies for my terrible proof-reading or lack thereof in the post above. Aargghh! Apologies for my terrible proof-reading or lack thereof in the post above. Aargghh!

]]> By: slim slow slider http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24788 slim slow slider Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:09:59 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24788 Twisty, when I'm back at university in a few weeks I will try to send you a photo of the coolest treasure known to New Zealand culture - the tuatara. boy are they cool. i think you would like them. Twisty, when I’m back at university in a few weeks I will try to send you a photo of the coolest treasure known to New Zealand culture – the tuatara. boy are they cool. i think you would like them.

]]> By: Ron Sullivan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24787 Ron Sullivan Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:20:08 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24787 Lavalamp, anyone who'll catch and release a coral snake is my kind of mensch. A friend of ours has a bearded dragon (that's an Australian lizard with a press agent) as a pet, and it has the same insouciant expression. Sure we're all anthropomorphizing, but this beardie seems to live up to it, anyway. Out here we love out Western fence lizards because they, to some extent, protect us from Lyme disease by curing infected ticks -- well, baby ticks: ticklettes? -- that bite them. No shit. Lavalamp, anyone who’ll catch and release a coral snake is my kind of mensch.

A friend of ours has a bearded dragon (that’s an Australian lizard with a press agent) as a pet, and it has the same insouciant expression. Sure we’re all anthropomorphizing, but this beardie seems to live up to it, anyway.

Out here we love out Western fence lizards because they, to some extent, protect us from Lyme disease by curing infected ticks — well, baby ticks: ticklettes? — that bite them. No shit.

]]> By: kathy a http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24786 kathy a Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:58:10 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24786 i just don't know where else to share this specimin, for which i blame the patriarchy and/or plain idiocy: http://www.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2006/08/11/nails6.jpg i just don’t know where else to share this specimin, for which i blame the patriarchy and/or plain idiocy:
http://www.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2006/08/11/nails6.jpg

]]> By: lavalamp http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24785 lavalamp Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:15:13 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24785 Twisty describes it well. "Pointy scales" is a much better description than spines. They aren't spiny like a horny toad. More like pronounced ridges. And Salty, let's not forget snakes. Says the woman who once found a still living coral snake under her dining room table. (I released it across the road) I always have pet doors, so all manner of critters ended up inside, many of them fairly uninjured. I think my cats were fairly inept hunters. Twisty describes it well. “Pointy scales” is a much better description than spines. They aren’t spiny like a horny toad. More like pronounced ridges.

And Salty, let’s not forget snakes. Says the woman who once found a still living coral snake under her dining room table. (I released it across the road) I always have pet doors, so all manner of critters ended up inside, many of them fairly uninjured. I think my cats were fairly inept hunters.

]]> By: KTal http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24784 KTal Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:23:46 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24784 <em>But the Texas spiny lizard’s brain is the size of a pin, and it has not the faculties to convey, via facial expression, nuances of wryness. Of course, this lizard’s inner monologue may be positively roiling with ironic drollery, but we’ll never know.</em> Same observation I've about wingnuts whose expressions never portend the intent of pain and evil they wish to inflict on those unlike themselves. But the Texas spiny lizard’s brain is the size of a pin, and it has not the faculties to convey, via facial expression, nuances of wryness. Of course, this lizard’s inner monologue may be positively roiling with ironic drollery, but we’ll never know.

Same observation I’ve about wingnuts whose expressions never portend the intent of pain and evil they wish to inflict on those unlike themselves.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24782 Twisty Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:12:27 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/08/10/708/#comment-24782 On adult specimens there are two rows of pointy scales---spines, if you will---running down the back. I couldn't see'em on this one, but I don't know if that's because they weren't there, or because of the distance. It was only about 2 1/2 inches long, and I was 3 feet away. The lens, to A Summer's Q, was a Canon EF 100mm 1:2.8. Macro, baby! On adult specimens there are two rows of pointy scales—spines, if you will—running down the back. I couldn’t see’em on this one, but I don’t know if that’s because they weren’t there, or because of the distance. It was only about 2 1/2 inches long, and I was 3 feet away.

The lens, to A Summer’s Q, was a Canon EF 100mm 1:2.8. Macro, baby!

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