Let My Penguins Go
It's amazing how sometimes all the wrong emotions can work so well towards writing. To cut out all the ugly parts and make a long story short, my mother managed to spark newfound ire in pretty much everyone else in the family. Though instead of stomping around the apartment in a listless rage, I sat down and much to my surprise, wrote more in an hour or two than I have probably all week. My productivity is disturbing in a way; can I only write now when I'm outraged? For that matter, if this is the case, why haven't I been able to write more when the "March of the Pinhead Customers" has been going on in our store the last few days? This would all be made so much easier if our Head Office would make tasers a part of the official uniform.
Speaking of potential outrage, I'm not even entirely sure what to think of this article:
German 'Homosexual' Penguins Spark Gay Protest BERLIN (Reuters) - A plan by a German zoo to test the sexual appetites of a group of suspected homosexual penguins has sparked outrage among gay and lesbian groups, who fear zookeepers might force them to turn straight. "All sorts of gay and lesbian associations have been e-mailing and calling in to protest," said a spokesman for the zoo in the northwestern city of Bremerhaven on Friday.
He said the zoo concluded the penguins might be gay after seeing male penguins trying to mate with other males and trying to hatch offspring out of stones. German media reported that female Swedish penguins would be brought to the zoo to test the theory, but when word got out about the plan, the phones started ringing. "Nobody here is trying to break-up same sex pairs by force," the zoo's director Heike Kueck told public broadcaster NDR. "We don't know if the three male pairs are really gay or just got together because of a lack of females."The news link via Yahoo is here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=5&u=/nm/20050211/sc_nm/life_germany_penguins_dcToday's Lesson: a hammer and a plastic-capped thumbtack just do not go well together...unless you want lots of plastic debris from where you shattered the thumbtack.
posted by Phillip at 6:28 AM
