Fiona’s superpower is that she can liquefy her bones to adapt to any human surface. Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday, snuggles, White Cat
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Dead Wild Roses: Caturday: Can you find the Kitteh?
Filed under: Cute Tagged: catblogging, caturday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: In Alberta, some things never change
Somewhat ironic, considering Rachel Notley said “spring is here” last night. Filed under: Canada, History, Humour Tagged: #abvote, Irony, Spring
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Friday Musical Interlude: Histoire du tango, Astor Piazzolla
On Sunday mornings, I get up shortly after Arb leaves for work, and move from the cozy, snuggly bed to the equally snuggly sofa. I make a cup of coffee and listen to Sunday Breakfast on CKUA, and half-doze under at least one cat (depending on Fiona and V’s current
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fiona: derpiest cat evar!1!
Nuff said Filed under: Cute Tagged: Derp, Fiona, White Cat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Latest Horse Rescue Update: It’s a girl!
In previous horseblogging, I may have mentioned that a number of the mares that came in, looked pregnant. One of them is not pregnant any more! Here she is with her two-day-old baby. Filed under: Cute Tagged: horseblogging
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Horseblogging: Still more new horses at Rescue
24 new horses have arrived at Rescue 100, bringing the total up to 36 horses in care. Of this new bunch, 13 are stallions! There are some very interesting-looking horses in the new herd. Probably the prettiest is Bowie – named for his flamboyant eye makeup. And this guy caused
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Life, in one round of show-jumping
The shit hits the fan, and somehow you make it through, with amazing panache. Then, when it’s over, you lose it. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: horseblogging, musing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday: Pallas Cat
Shakesville had this video and it’s too funny not to share. More about the Pallas Cat: Wikipedia Filed under: Cute, Humour Tagged: Cat, caturday, Cute
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Horseblogging: New horses at the rescue
Eleven new horses have come into care at Rescue 100. Their pictures are up on their facebook page, but not on the website yet. There are two stallions, seven mares, and two foals. Of course, they were all running together; a couple of the mares look really pregnant and probably
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday: Fiona napping
I wish I’d been able to get video, because she was dreaming and her little paws were twitching Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday, Cute, Fiona
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Wisdom of The Market
This guy is an elected official, and he’s serious. Filed under: Politics Tagged: great Libertarian ideas
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Logic: How to PWN an argument, without getting the RPOJ
If you want to take down somebody else’s argument, a certain familiarity with the nature of intellectual or philosophical (as opposed to playground) argument is required, so that you can construct your own counter-argument. In an intellectual argument, the person putting forth an argument sets out a number of premises
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday: V’s New Hobby
All cats seem to really enjoy sticking their butts in their humans’ faces. This is known. V has recently elevated his butt displaying behaviour by combining it with maximal interference with human phone browsing. Well done, V! V boob-stomping the Intransigent One V on my shoulder Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice: Free Association at Choir Practice
Naturally for this time of year, the choir that Arb and I sing in is preparing for our Christmas concert, and there is Jebus-music aplenty. Really that’s OK by me; most of the shit about Santa seriously sucks. One of the beautiful carols we’re doing is Harold Darke’s arrangement of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Un-Friend Zone
We’ve all heard plenty about the so-called “friend zone”, which is where a person you want to date, just wants to be friends, and somehow that’s unfair and bad and mean. Let me tell you about its converse, the Un-Friend Zone. A while back at work, we got a new
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Musical Interlude: Argentine Tango
The tango that they dance in Argentina is a very, very different dance than you might see on Dancing with the Stars. It’s highly improvisational, and allows not only the leader, but also the follower, to make artistic decisions. Everything is communicated between the partners through physical contact, whether it’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Protecting the Public Trust? – Intersectional Analysis of Police Behaviour
Two very interesting articles about police conduct came out this week, particularly interesting if you juxtapose them. Ferguson and the cult of compliance In cases that seem very different, separated by factors such as age, race, gender, sexuality, geography, class and ability, police explain away their actions by citing noncompliance.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pity the poor man-feelings
Anti-rape education is making poor frat-boys’ penises sad, according to this article at Bloomberg. …making out with a girl at a party. Things were going fine, the student said, when suddenly a vision of his school’s disciplinary board flew into his head. “‘I want to go to law school or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Shadow is a good dog!
When Shadow asks me for something, I’ll often make her earn whatever it is she wants by asking her to sit or lie down or shake a paw. Apparently ‘lie down’ is my favourite, because lately she’ll come boop me with her nose and make want-noises, then immediately lie down
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