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As my Brain turns Old and Grey...
Jan. 28th, 2012 01:17 amBack in Ye Olden Dayes, before we had E621 and the like, furry porn was distributed in little handmade magazines, usually containing black and white line drawings. I was sorting through some old stuff today and found a little stack of them. The first one I looked in was a copy of 'Bunny Pages' from 1998, and lo and behold, I had a drawing in there that I'd entirely forgotten about. Oddly enough, it's a centaur rather than a bunny, one of only two non-bunnies. The other one is Sally Acorn, by Fatalis, who at that point was really not a bit better than I was.
Times change.
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I'm pleased that Rep. Giffords is resigning. I'm glad she's been able to recover and take up most of her normal life again, but she indisputably has brain damage. She shouldn't be helping run the country.
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Some villains got arrested for <a href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10640408/">stealing Venus Flytraps</a>, of all things. I haven't had one of those in years. Those and Mexican Jumping Beans used to be uber-common, then gradually you just didn't see them anymore. I always had the idea the flytraps came from the Amazon jungle. We used to just put little pieces of meat in them, instead of waiting for them to catch a fly.
I tend not to believe the 'ten cents on the black market' storyline. Three people spent however many hours it takes to carefully dig up 200 rather fragile plants and presumably bag or pot them properly. They're all expected to live after having been replanted, so a fair amount of care was taken in their handling by the thieves.
No one's doing that for ten cents apiece, unless they're just too dumb to breathe. If they sell for $15 at roadside stands, then I'm guessing about $5 each selling to those stands.
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I finally got a big <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata">Snake Plant</a> for the living room. They had a big display of them at the hardware store, unexpectly enough. My grandmother used to always have those, and they're approximately unkillable, so a good plant choice for me. They come from the Congo too, which makes them interesting to me as well. There's something quite Victorian about keeping African plants about the house.
Times change.
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I'm pleased that Rep. Giffords is resigning. I'm glad she's been able to recover and take up most of her normal life again, but she indisputably has brain damage. She shouldn't be helping run the country.
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Some villains got arrested for <a href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10640408/">stealing Venus Flytraps</a>, of all things. I haven't had one of those in years. Those and Mexican Jumping Beans used to be uber-common, then gradually you just didn't see them anymore. I always had the idea the flytraps came from the Amazon jungle. We used to just put little pieces of meat in them, instead of waiting for them to catch a fly.
I tend not to believe the 'ten cents on the black market' storyline. Three people spent however many hours it takes to carefully dig up 200 rather fragile plants and presumably bag or pot them properly. They're all expected to live after having been replanted, so a fair amount of care was taken in their handling by the thieves.
No one's doing that for ten cents apiece, unless they're just too dumb to breathe. If they sell for $15 at roadside stands, then I'm guessing about $5 each selling to those stands.
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I finally got a big <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata">Snake Plant</a> for the living room. They had a big display of them at the hardware store, unexpectly enough. My grandmother used to always have those, and they're approximately unkillable, so a good plant choice for me. They come from the Congo too, which makes them interesting to me as well. There's something quite Victorian about keeping African plants about the house.
