Friday, July 29, 2016

Fossil Fortunes

Fortune teller dinosaur gazes into crystal ball: Your descendants will be small, twittering, flying creatures that are kept as pets

...And others will be kept as crowing farm animals that everyone says other things taste like. 
Sorry about that.

Friday, July 22, 2016

Insomniac Dreams

Erin wanders a surreal, distorted room  Something doesn't seem quite right  Am I dreaming  She flies  Yep, I'm dreaming  Realisation  I actually managed to fall asleep

Yes, this really happened.  Sleep deprivation + lucid dreaming experience = weirdness. 

Friday, July 15, 2016

Hairy Light Cultists

Moths worship a lit bug zapper  The light is powerful  The light is all
 
Name:  Euxoa auxiliaris, otherwise known as the "army cutworm," the "miller moth," or the "airborne ick."

Physical Description:  Small, brown, ugly, and hairy.

Intelligence:  Low.  Really, really low. 

Behavior:  Will charge about chaotically, oblivious to all obstacles (including walls), even after crashing into them repeatedly.  The concept of "boundaries" is lost on them.  Have an all-consuming fascination with light sources of any kind, indicating that they haven't yet figured out that they're supposed to be nocturnal.  The entire species may be drunk. 

Benefit to the Ecosystem:  Bat food.  That's it. 

Friday, July 8, 2016

Goldilocks Grahams

Campers inspect food  Someone's been eating my trail mix  Someone's been eating my hot dogs  Someone's been eating my s'mores, and they took all of them  A bear happily eats the s'mores
 
Although why anyone would leave a perfectly good s'more unattended is beyond me. 

Friday, July 1, 2016