It’s well-known that animal rights activists often protest against fur. You know, by showing nude models saying that they’ll rather go naked than wear fur, and by more mainstream means. It’s justified, but it’s strange to protest so loudly against something that is actually used by few people because of its price, and not to protest much against leather, which nearly everyone puts on their feet. Do they protest against people who make animals suffer or against bourgeois hedonism?
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Yesterday i helped a hedgehog to cross the street.
There’s a songbird who sings
Published 2006-07-15 incompletely migrated , photo , poetry 1 CommentTags: animals, bird, computers
I dreamt that a friend of mine took a piece of cake i was eating and threw it to the trash. I got unbelievably mad and tried to explain to him that let alone the robbery, i totally hate throwing food to the trash. He was quite indifferent and said that the cake was disgusting. I had to make a point, though, so i spilled a little water on his head. The funny thing is that a similar thing actually happened once – i spilled a little beer on a friend who was pissing me off (no, i didn’t drink any beforehand).
When that didn’t help, i turned to the Internet. The Internet always helps, doesn’t it? I’ll show you how bad it is to throw food away, i thought! So i started using a very old version of Netscape Navigator on a Mac. It was very annoying, not because the version was so old, but because it was configured in such a way that with every key i pressed, the computer played an annoying sound. I tried to turn it off, but couldn’t find where. Then i found out that it’s not even Netscape Navigator, but Konqueror. After a couple of minutes i started realizing that even when i don’t press any keys the annoying sound goes on. It was a nasty fucking bird outside the window.
You probably know this lovely little poem:
I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perch on my window sill,He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
And gently lowered the window
And crushed its fucking head.I’m not a morning person.
Well, i tried to take a picture of it instead, but it flew away, so i took a picture of another one, who looks quite the same, but not as annoying. Exhausted, i lay on the grass and took a picture of my cat Hantouli, which is the last thing that this blog was really missing.
P.S.: Blogger’s spell checker doesn’t recognize the words “fucking” and “blog”.