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OWLS!!

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Hatoful Boyfriend

My newest obsession is a Japanese dating game (1) where you try to get pigeons to fall in love with you (2) called Hatoful Boyfriend.(3) If you know what it is, then I hope you’ve seen this. (Thank you, Keffy.) If you don’t know what it is, let me break it down for you: 1. Japanese [...]

Sunday: Grey

Want to see the pigeons squabbling on my lap? Bonus video!

Cat vs. Bird vs. Box

One of my cats (Captain Henry Every of The Fancy) is a moron with faulty depth perception who will stalk and spring at birds from twenty feet away. He has never caught anything that wasn’t already dead for years before he found it. One of my cats (Butch) is even stupider, and she isn’t at [...]

Sunday: Blue

Comic: Owls are Problem Solvers

“My Dignity in Scars” is free online at Strange Horizons

Since I was traveling all day on Monday, I forgot I didn’t make a real post! “My Dignity in Scars” is online for free at Strange Horizons. I am never the first to know the demons have returned. This time, I am at Ukaya’s house, trimming the hooves of her goats, because her joints are [...]

#AmazonFail turns books into newts. Maybe they’ll get better!

Imagine, if you will, that Amazon is a witch. They have used magic to make it so your cow’s milk is actually carbonated duran juice. Now, no one in the market will buy from you. Your livelihood is suffering, which stinks because this inexplicable buckle on your hat is getting rusty and you can’t afford [...]

They Taught You In School

I’ve never been trained as management. I’m learning by watching my boss. Who has ALSO never been trained as management. You’d think this was a recipe for disaster, but for some reason our store has the lowest turnover rate in the company. (Knock on wood!) Most of our employees have been here for four years [...]