Hippo or Jackie Brown?

Here's a picture of my dog Jackie Brown from when we adopted her last year. I was reminded of this when I went to see the hippos at the zoo.

Which is which you may ask?

(She was pretty sick when we got her last year. But under our love and care she is all fit and trim and happy. No more hippo lookalike contests for her!)

trip to the zoo

First I want to make this disclaimer. Zoos are terrible ideas in my opinion. They are mean and horrible ways to capture precious creatures while every yahoo and his or her family can go and gawk at them. They make me sad and shamed.
That said, Saturday was a free day.

So my rationale for going to zoo was that I would not be donating a single penny to the cause of zoo. I was just there to spectate.

Needless to say, the animals were amazing.

rear view

I walked to my truck with my hood pulled around my face
eyes stinging from the biting wind.
I scrambled for my keys, apologizing for busting to the front of the crowd
with such lightning speed.
Each frigid face left behind
like a memory of things that never existed.
My life can travel at this speed,
forging ahead into the great unknown,
forgetting to notice the life it leaves behind.

-Summer Richards, 1/29/08

too much to drink + hotel room = FUN

belonging

Coming home, you belong to someone,
in a sense,
this is what coming home means.
There is someone that is yours
and you theirs.

"Where were you last night?
You seemed a million miles away."
She continued what she was doing,
never really acknowledging the question
instead asking if perhaps they should drink some wine.
Her smile was subtle,
like she still retained mysteries
that even those whom she belonged to
would never really know.

-Summer Richards, 1/22/08

cornershop

Who is this band Cornershop? I love them! A couple of months ago Mike and I were in Boston and we found a lady on Craigslist who wanted to rent out her apartment to us for the weekend. It was a sweet deal. Anyway I brought my laptop and ended up raiding her music and putting it on my hard drive. That's how I discovered Cornershop. They are FUN! When I put them on I want to do silly little dances around the living room. I haven't heard a sound like that in a while and it makes me quite happy. Mike says that they've been around for a while but they are definitely new to me! I also discovered that I like Michelle Shocked and for some reason before I thought that I didn't.

http://www.cornershop.com/