This is me rambling about me, mostly. Current stuff: home, family, my head’s on fire… that kind of thing. This also includes everything imported from LiveJournal.
The dog that ended a police chase by biting the fleeing suspect was not a police dog. No, the dog belonged to the fleeing suspect.
Next up on “when animals attack stupid criminals,” let’s have a man fleeing police on foot with a pet rattlesnake in his pants.
Firefighters pulled Daryl Hannah out of a tree.
It would appear that she is protesting the landowner’s decision to put a warehouse on land that has for the last 15 years been used, free of charge, by urban farmers. Others, including Willie Nelson and Danny Glover also protested.
Let’s look at it this way… these well-known and well-to-do personalities are pushing for a private landowner to contribute 14 acres of land for public use. That seems like a worthy cause, right?
Why don’t they just, you know… BUY it? Did they try? It’s just money, after all. They could have set up the Hannah, Nelson, and Glover Trust for Urban Gardening, and as a non-profit organization kept trees on that land in perpetuity. They could have turned it into a park. What would it have cost them? A million dollars? Five? And if that’s what it would have cost, how can it possibly be just for them to expect the private landowner to absorb the cost himself?
I’ll be impressed when Ms. Hannah buys some land and donates it to the public herself.
Doctor Fun, my favorite single-panel cartoon, is done running. Only now do I learn that David Farley, the author and artist, planned to run it for exactly 10 years. It took him more than ten years to get the requisite 520 weeks done, and those were five-day weeks, as opposed to seven-day weeks, but still… it’s over.
And the “it’s over” announcement falls on the 6th anniversary of Schlock launching. Great. Now I have GUILT.
At my current rate, I’ll “catch up” with David Farley on July 25th of 2007. But how can anyone “catch up” with the very first webcomic? Because, you know, that’s what Doctor Fun WAS. The very first webcomic. *sigh*.
‘Bye, Doc.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I hiked today. I promised pictures.