yesterday's grey & the black hat

did fun stuff with grey, shelly and black hat. Yogurt was consumed.

A very brief portion of my day was spent visiting three lake sturgeon. Beautifully ugly creatures, sturgeon can live up to 100 years.

Prehistoric, they can grow larger than a man and weigh up to 800 pounds. Once located within the United States throughout the Great Lakes, now the last major populations of lake sturgeon can only be found in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Sturgeon feed by suctioning up bottom dwelling organisms with rubbery, protruding lips. They extend their lips to vacuum up soft, live food which they swallow whole due to their lack of teeth. Near the lips the lake sturgeon have taste buds on and around their barbels (whisker like things).

Sturgeon have a low reproductive rate and usually do not begin to spawn until they are 15 to 25 years old.

Very similar to humans, these sturgeon.

closer is not always better

after work

tony, andy & pha



justin

McNuggets - McNamara style

This morning Tony (and THE BAND) started day 2 of recording.

Unfortunately, one song didn't have lyrics yet, but Tony still really wanted to record it. Trying to get inspired, he spent some time walking around with his notebook and pen jotting things down.

As I left for work Tony, standing at the top of the stairs in his pajamas, said in genuinely sorrowful voice, "Don't ever become a musician. It's a lot of stress. Right now I feel like I'm getting ready for a midterm."

I thought carefully about this driving to work. And then I remembered the last time they practiced.

if pablo only knew (or ode to corn revisited)

In other news, I read a piece on McSweeney by John Hodgman which made me laugh. I have included an excerpt here:

I have heard a lot recently about the role of writing, song, music, painting, in the tragic blank space in our souls that this event has left behind. Of course, this preoccupation is largely a result of an unconscious bias of the media. If pig farmers had as much currency with NPR as literary novelists, we would be hearing just as much about the healing power of bacon. And knowing that power well, I can say that it is certainly comparable to the reading of a sensitive short story as far as comfort goes...

the name says it all