on tropes and truths

they're eating the skunks, they're eating the rats

an activated adrenaline system at three am can impact a life.

for me, the impact is that this post is late going out. for you, my sudden leap from sleep to fight mode was instant but resonates still meow.

I heard a terrible bird noise and a gutteral animal noise. As my head became clear and Laura confirmed that our hens were safe, from the sound of things it was a racoon killing a young crow.

Fuck I hate racoons.

We need some ‘boat people’ to come and clean things up.

I guess though, this would be taking advantage of the boat people.

And then I’m a cat person. I prefer cats to people.

There’s a new cat in the house. freddy.

freddy’s been running around the neighbourhood for a few months now.

He’s cute, orange and has a huge set of nuts.

Well, he did until yesterday when the vet added freddy’s nuts to his ball collection.

we used to have a vet in toronto called dr tandy. Dr Tandy had a collection of all of the nuts he removed from animals over the years.

when i worked at the oyster bar, the ow…