Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category

The Preying Vulture

This is the second part of A Vulture Tried to Eat My Face.
Having beaten myself into exhaustion
ascending a mountain I had no place on
a shadow slid across my path
before a lord of the sky descended to hover
just out of arm’s reach
a vulture, majestic and hideous
head cocked
blinking its oily black eyes at me
unabashedly curious
“Oh, my God!” I [...]

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A Vulture Tried to Eat My Face

As my regular readers know, I never, ever, in even the slightest possible way, exaggerate. So you can believe me when I tell you that yesterday a vulture tried to gobble my visage.
I was on my health walk. I was on a trail in the mountains near where I live, probably a mile and a half [...]

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Godly Lessons I Learned From a Dog

As I promised in my recent post I’ve Finally Gone to the Dogs, here are the Godly Lessons I learned from a white poodle I called Munch over the two weeks (which ended yesterday) in which she was in my care:
Just like Munch loved chasing me, running from me, barking at me, and biting my [...]

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I’ve Finally Gone to the Dogs

A while back I told some Christian publishing and writing muck-a-mucks with whom I was having lunch that Crosswalk.com had engaged me to write a blog for them (everything I post here on “Suddenly Christian” also runs on Crosswalk and Christianity.com).
“Oh, no,” said one of my lunch-mates, an author of “Christian Living”-type books. “I’ve done [...]

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And Finally: What McCain Supporters Look Like To Obama

Ineffectually threatening. Operates underground. Totally blind. Slings mud. Grabby. Extremely uncuddly. Probably the result of inbreeding.
(This, by the way, is a star-nosed mole. They can smell underwater, are impervious to weather, and are the fastest-eating mammals on the planet. Be afraid. Photo [and article here] by the great Kenneth Catania.)
Related posts: What Obama Supporters Look Like To [...]

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More Fun With Animals: What Obama’s Supporters Look Like To McCain

Moronically loyal. Dreadlocked. Blind. Prone to fleas. High maintenance. Hot.
(Thanks, Jon Gilbert!)
See also: And Finally: What McCain Supporters Look Like To Obama,  How John McCain Sees Barack Obama, How Barack Obama Sees John McCain, What Hillary Looks Like in Obama’s Dreams, What Obama Looks Like In Hillary’s Dreams.

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How John McCain Sees Barack Obama

The above is a picture of:
A. How John Mcain Sees Barack Obama: lightweight, disconcertingly cute, easily squashable, just a shade too pale
B. The most adorable little thing ever to eat its way through your intestines
C. An axolotl, the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders
D. Your brain on drugs
Related (as in Just As Stupid) posts: And Finally: [...]

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How Barack Obama Sees John McCain

This is:
A. How Barack Obama sees John McCain
B. How John McCain sees Bill Clinton
C. How Bill Clinton sees Monica Lewinsky
D. How Monica Lewinskly sees Jenny Craig
E. How Jenny Craig sees everybody
F. All of the above
G. A blogfish
H. A blobfish

Think I missed something? Tell me what!
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What Obama Looks Like In Hillary’s Dreams

This is:

A. How Hillary Clinton sees Barack Obama: cute; makes everyone feel good; lacks legs;
B. The star of the new Pixar movie: “Smerdly, the Littlest Nose Picker”
C. A lot less fun to step on than you’d think
D. A Venusian who’s polite enough not to point
E. The result of a date gone terribly wrong for Thing from the Adamms [...]

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What Hillary Looks Like In Obama’s Dreams

This is:
A. What Hillary Clinton looks like in Barack Obama’s dreams
B. Batman in his much, much later years
C. The love child of E. T. and Liza Minnelli
D. The pet mouse of Barry Bonds
E. Me, suffering God’s punishment for making jokes at the expense of others
F. Satan’s little bundle of joy, Beelzebubby
G. An Aye-aye, the world’s largest nocturnal primate, native [...]

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