Wildlife: I wish the Whitetail Deer ate thistles -- those damn weeds make nasty, thorny thickets that screw up everybody's habitat.
(See picture at left, when it gets there -- Photo-blogger doesn't seem to be working right now. NOTE: Picture in place 7/7/05)

Visit: A Tale of Two Movies

Weather: Sunny days on July 4th, with high cumulus clouds -- perfect summer weather. The whole valley shimmered under a double layer of lights last night -- normal electric ones, and crazy flares of black powder, in multitudes of colors, shapes, and patterns.

Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site Click on this, and the other five donation tabs.

Media Watch: MTV VULGARITY ALERT! (If you don't want to read about stupid, low-rent, adolescent humor, skip the last part of this post.)





I saw Eminem's new video, An Ass Like That, at the end of an MTV special purportedly about producing it. The whole thing was an outrageous comedy sketch, with puppets portraying various real people, and some goofy cameos by the selfsame real folks, called Making the Ass. Besides Eminem (M&M, AKA Martin Mathers), it starred Triumph, the Insult Dog.
"A white rapper? Now you can disgrace TWO races at once!"
Triumph is a sock puppet, voiced by a man named Robert Smigel: 'Triumph' webpage from Maverick Times I could say that the humor rarely rose above the poop-on-the-sidewalk level, but that wouldn't include the times in fell into the toilet, or was outright offensive.
I'll give Making credit for vitality and unabashed stupidity. The actual video was a letdown, except for the P-Funk t-shirts worn by some limo riders at the beginning. (Mathers IS a friend of George Clinton.)