Public Service Announcement: Factory Farming

Alex Kuang and I created a video on factory farming. Please ignore the typos (his fault) and consider our suggestions for remedying this situation.

Warning: Although we took care to avoid using the most disturbing content in the creation of this PSA, the following video may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is strongly advised. (For those of you who would prefer to skip the video and go straight to the suggestions, look at 3:36 - 3:44 of the video. And like, the rest of my blog.)

"Chicken" People

Bit late, maybe, but here is a wonderfully sexual innuendo-free video post:



I guess that reporter was a bit chicken. But doesn't that motivate y'all to go get y'all some nice pet chickens... y'all...?

That is all.

[Video credits: Thanks to Jenny Lawson at TheBloggess.com for posting and DavidTheBarbarian1 for uploading to YouTube.]

One Year

And yet, it seems like so much longer than one year. It seems like an eternity of waiting for something that will never again return.

Coco chooken...

[Brought to you by the "coco-yams" (yes, why hyphen, Mr. Achebe, why hyphen?) in Things Fall Apart. We actually eat those sometimes... I don't think they're actually yams, though. .................They're cocoyams. Obviously.]

In other news, the hawk has not been seen again. Neither has the parrot. But now we have lots and lots of rather bold (stupid??? Okay well to be fair... we never catch them... even though they're super slow...) mice/rats/large furry things with long tails that eat the chicken food.

Dem rodents.

But they're much easier to live with than a "friendly" neighborhood hawk or two, so... Blessing in disguise?

Wow okay this blog post has kind of... run around a bit... like a headless chicken (WTF but it's an idiom, so we're all good) or something. Oops. Oh well.

The Oatmeal Video Signal Boost (Not Related to Chickens in Any Way)

Actually, I lied. The Oatmeal and chickens are both awesome, so I guess they are kind of related.

Anyways, I watched this awesome video on Mr. Matthew Inman's website yesterday:

Warning: TAFW (Too Awesome For Work).

[Video created jointly by Sarah Donner and Mr. Inman (The Oatmeal). See theoatmeal.com for more details.]

Chicken GIFs?

Just found one of those GIF thingies with a spinny chicken (bantam White Leghorn, perhaps?) on it. It said "I REGRET NOTHING" in big red letters at the bottom of the picture.

I am so confused.

...Just did a quick Google search. Okay, so apparently YouTube people call it a "Spinning Disco Chicken." What? I feel like I'm missing something here... ._.

(Snowflake is confused, too...)

[Picture taken sometime last year, I think.]

Polly?

There has been a (friendly? hopefully) neighborhood parrot flying around at dusk for quite some time now. I'm not sure where it came from... I only know that it is the source of all the strange, hawk-like noises emanating from the top of my neighbor's tree (which has since been cut down, forcing said parrot to relocate to another tree).

It's a green parrot, very possibly someone's escaped/abandoned pet, since there's only the one and I don't live out in the middle of the rainforest or anything like that.

How do I know that it is green? Well.

I went out to the chickens just now with a handful of spinach leaves to feed them. I didn't look up. After nearing their little run/enclosure thingy, I heard a sudden SCHHHOOOOSH-ing noise from directly above my head. Turning around, I watched as the parrot flew across my yard and schhhooooshed away. It looked vaguely like a very large Sylvester (my deceased green parakeet).

It must have been perching either on the top of their enclosure or on the tree it's built around... The chickens didn't seem to care (BUT then again, they also didn't care about that one snake that visited them a while ago-- they even tried to eat it at one point, or so I'm told). I doubt that the parrot wants to eat the chookies, so maybe it was just having a nice conversation with them when I so rudely interrupted. In any case, it's quite a nice bird. Probably. I think.

Here, birdy birdy birdy... Here, birdy birdy birdy...

The Best Advertisement Ever

If Google is indeed "Scroogling" people like Bing claims it is, well, I guess it's doing a pretty good job. Look what I found today while I was studying/homeworking my Spanish on Quizlet:

They know me so well...

Best. Ad. Ever.

(By the way, that's not me in the photo. I just thought it was a cool coincidence.)

And with no religious connotations whatsoever, you have yourself a very merry jolly wintertime festivities season!

[I don't know why there's such a huge blank space before the advertisement screenshot, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to fix it right now. Maybe later.]