Comments on: Is it getting skeezy around here? http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/ stargazer, muddler, muffle-jaw, cockatouch, spoonhead, hookear, gudgeon, grubby, blob, bull-rout, blue garnet, miller's thumb Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sarah http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/comment-page-1/#comment-90193 Sarah Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:26:31 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/?p=530#comment-90193 To quote Lewis Black: Giant frogs, giant frogs. What can I say? Back to you. To quote Lewis Black: Giant frogs, giant frogs. What can I say? Back to you.

]]> By: Cam Sculpin http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/comment-page-1/#comment-90164 Cam Sculpin Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:49:47 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/?p=530#comment-90164 Savannah: we're in a weird little neighborhood tucked between Ravenna and Lake City, both of which have had some kind of weird incidents lately. But you're right, it probably was fireworks. It was a slow, regular series, which tipped me over into thinking "gunshots", but I'm pretty sure I'd have seen some report by now if that's what it'd been. (Also I was startled out being nearly asleep. I probably tend to think ***DOOM*** in general when something weird wakes me up.) As for what's next... Having slept on it, I think I'll put my money on angry crows. I got dive-bombed by a crow last Thursday, and pretty soon I saw why: a little crow fledgling was staying very still in the shadows. I carefully pretended not to look at it and maintained speed. It was an interesting little guy -- dull charcoal gray, bluish eyes, a little pink around the beak, about half the size of an adult, with something different about the beak that I couldn't quite make out. But sticking around to observe looked like a good way to get a faceful of crow. It didn't seem to be in any distress, and I guess it's about the right time for it to be taking its first flight. That adult crow wouldn't have believed me, but I felt pretty protective of it myself: awww, little bitty crow going out into the big world. Come to think of it, a hummingbird was getting mighty close to me yesterday -- it was maybe two feet away behind me. I was all, "What is that loud buzzing noise?!...Holy shit!" After it flew away, I got to watch it perch and wipe its beak on a wisteria branch. That was neat. Hummingbirds are practically half beak, so it's a rather involved, full-body process. So, maybe it's a bird army. Those chickens had better not turn on me, is all I'm saying. I know where they sleep. Savannah: we’re in a weird little neighborhood tucked between Ravenna and Lake City, both of which have had some kind of weird incidents lately. But you’re right, it probably was fireworks. It was a slow, regular series, which tipped me over into thinking “gunshots”, but I’m pretty sure I’d have seen some report by now if that’s what it’d been. (Also I was startled out being nearly asleep. I probably tend to think ***DOOM*** in general when something weird wakes me up.)

As for what’s next… Having slept on it, I think I’ll put my money on angry crows. I got dive-bombed by a crow last Thursday, and pretty soon I saw why: a little crow fledgling was staying very still in the shadows. I carefully pretended not to look at it and maintained speed.

It was an interesting little guy — dull charcoal gray, bluish eyes, a little pink around the beak, about half the size of an adult, with something different about the beak that I couldn’t quite make out. But sticking around to observe looked like a good way to get a faceful of crow. It didn’t seem to be in any distress, and I guess it’s about the right time for it to be taking its first flight. That adult crow wouldn’t have believed me, but I felt pretty protective of it myself: awww, little bitty crow going out into the big world.

Come to think of it, a hummingbird was getting mighty close to me yesterday — it was maybe two feet away behind me. I was all, “What is that loud buzzing noise?!…Holy shit!” After it flew away, I got to watch it perch and wipe its beak on a wisteria branch. That was neat. Hummingbirds are practically half beak, so it’s a rather involved, full-body process.

So, maybe it’s a bird army. Those chickens had better not turn on me, is all I’m saying. I know where they sleep.

]]> By: Ted http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/comment-page-1/#comment-90161 Ted Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:53:41 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/?p=530#comment-90161 Geez, what's next, zombies? Seems like the end of the world is just around the corner. http://www.nullityvoid.com/ Geez, what’s next, zombies? Seems like the end of the world is just around the corner.

http://www.nullityvoid.com/

]]> By: Savannah http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/comment-page-1/#comment-90159 Savannah Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:57:15 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/?p=530#comment-90159 "Skeezy", hahaha! (I doubt it, but what neighborhood do you live in, again?) It probably <i>was</i> fireworks. Like the First, Panicky Robin of Spring, those first fireworks of June. :) “Skeezy”, hahaha!

(I doubt it, but what neighborhood do you live in, again?)

It probably was fireworks. Like the First, Panicky Robin of Spring, those first fireworks of June. :)

]]> By: Josh http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/comment-page-1/#comment-90152 Josh Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:41:09 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/?p=530#comment-90152 One way I do it is by having woken up every hour on the hour between 3am and 7am last night. So... sleepy. And if I said "Yep" it was because I was half-asleep. What I meant to say was, "could be, or maybe firecrackers". Weighed against having gotten no good sleep last night, the threat of gunfire or possibly firecrackers from what sounded like a few blocks away seemed safe to ignore. One way I do it is by having woken up every hour on the hour between 3am and 7am last night. So… sleepy. And if I said “Yep” it was because I was half-asleep. What I meant to say was, “could be, or maybe firecrackers”. Weighed against having gotten no good sleep last night, the threat of gunfire or possibly firecrackers from what sounded like a few blocks away seemed safe to ignore.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2009/06/02/is-it-getting-skeezy-around-here/comment-page-1/#comment-90151 Sarah Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:04:45 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/?p=530#comment-90151 It was around that time that our neighbor a couple houses down from Dave and I very kindly set off some fireworks, three or four very load bangs. Lovely to jolt awake to. It was around that time that our neighbor a couple houses down from Dave and I very kindly set off some fireworks, three or four very load bangs. Lovely to jolt awake to.

]]>