Unrelated Hill Country Flood photo of the day: My critically-acclaimed golden retriever Bert taunts fate at the brink of deluge. El Rancho Deluxe, August 2007.
You know how you’re sauntering along through your life minding your own beeswax, and some sexist shit goes down, and you, a feminist, naturally respond as one who is sick and […]
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Published August 20th, 2007 in Dear god what about the men?, Men Hate You and Varmint Center. 79 CommentsPeckish asilid of the week
Published July 26th, 2007 in Announcements, Varmint Center and Austin. 60 CommentsI am not dead. Or even, aside from a bit of irregularity, sick. Since I freely admit to falling a bit short of meeting either of the aforementioned conditions, you may wonder why no blaming in over a week. Well, I’ll tell you. I do not have, at the moment (or, some would say, ever), […]
I cannot resist one more spider post
Published July 6th, 2007 in Varmint Center and El Rancho Deluxe. 61 CommentsClump of harvestmen writhing in my perpetually unfinished soffit. The reader will kindly forgive the crappy picture quality; I had only my little point-and-shoot with me, having chemobrainedly omitted to throw the Big Camera Bag into the truck prior to departure. Phalangiium sp., Blanco County, TX, July 2007.
Speaking of shrimp foam, the Twisty Arthropod Institute […]
Fig. 7
Here in Austin it has been raining for 40 days and 40 nights. Some spinster aunts would simply throw in the towel and take to their beds with tubs of Cool Whip when confronted with such seratonin-depleting meteorological anomalies, but I am not one of them. No, not I. Instead I don raiment suitable […]
Dang. Once again, no time to blame. But certainly one never tires of photos of tree trunks with galloping squirrels in the background, so here you are.
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Checkered setwing. The Twisty Odonata Compound, Travis County, TX, June 2007.
If I seem not to have blogularly blamed the patriarchy in days and days, it is because I have been extremely diverted by blaming the patriarchy in my actual life. No cause for alarm, though. I’ll be back soon.
Please accept this dragonfly as a token […]
Thyreocorid bug of the week
Published May 26th, 2007 in Keep your bias off my gender, Mass Media and Varmint Center. 482 CommentsCorimelaena sp. The Twisty Hemiptera Department, May 26, 2007.
I adjourned to the bug paddock to snap this foto after throwing a copy of Newsweek across the room. It’s the May 21 issue, the one with a picture of a baby on the front. The baby is wearing a half pink, half blue wunzy. “The Mystery […]
Sentimental blowfly photo of the week. Like so many of us, blowflies start life as carrion-gnawing maggots. Calliphora sp. May 22, North South Austin.
One of the aspects of blogging that is supposed to make the whole enterprise so revolutionary is the blogroll. This is a collection of links to other people’s blogs that you put […]
Yo, taqueau
Published May 22nd, 2007 in Keep your bias off my gender, Varmint Center and Austin. 218 CommentsSentimental butterfly photo of the week: Anthanassa texana, the Texan crescent. North South Austin, May 21, 2007.
I forgot, for a few days, that I have a blog. So many bugs to photograph, so many coffee shops to haunt. And let’s face it; is there really anything I can say about patriarchy that I haven’t already […]
OK, just one more bird post and I’m done
Published May 18th, 2007 in Varmint Center and Austin. 19 CommentsPurple martin hotel. Manor & Chestnut, Austin. May, 2007.
Long ago, sometime after the Jurassic wound down but before the auspicious occasion of my birth, purple martins purpled freely o’er the countryside, feasting on succulent mosquitos so that Native Americans wouldn’t have to invent DEET. Then came the European invasion, bringing, along with genocide, disease, and […]
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