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RDP Friday: ZOO

When I was little and my family went to the Zoo back in the days when

people use to throw junk food into the exhibits.

You could buy peanuts and use them to make the bears beg for treats.

BEG.

It was pretty horrible.

I wonder what those bears saw when they looked over at us with our bags of peanuts in our hands. I’ll bet what they saw was the stuff of nightmares. How could we not have looked like monsters from the worst nightmares you could dream to them?

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I remember that the Primate House was awful. When I was a kid,  I really hated the Primate House.

The gorillas and the chimps would sit  behind glass in rooms that looked, I swear to God, like an execution chamber in a prison. The tile, the color, the rope swinging from the ceiling.  It was grotesque.

Since those days,   I have watched hours upon hours of gorillas and chimps in rescues and at modern Zoos where they can go outside and hang out in their own private green habitats or look through the glass and interact with the public OR they can go into their rooms and ignore zoo visitors all day long if they want too.

Even though things are better in these places  ( I hope against hope they are better ) for our Primate cousins, I still wonder how they see us on the other side of the glass.

They probably still see us as monsters, but I hope they see us as the kind of monsters that have a touch of humanity in our bones.

I hope.

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By Jove and All His Pals

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RDP Tuesday: ASTROLOGY

In Astrology,  the planets in our Solar System all play roles. Starring roles in fact.

I’d rather understand these wonderful worlds on their own terms.

Without us slapping labels on them, they are shrouded with mystery and in the case of Venus, her atmosphere could  smoosh you like a bug and Jupiter would give you a lethal dose of radiation in hours ( which seems WILDLY optimistic timeline to me ) .Once I heard the colorful  phrase ‘rapid cell degeneration ‘  to explain what would happen to you if you stood on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. I have actually spent nights staring up at my ceiling trying to picture what that would look like.

My point is, each of these worlds could turn you into a chalk outline in some pretty creative ways. They don’t need to carry traits- noble or otherwise- for us.

Here are some wonderful images for  you to enjoy and maybe ponder over:

Mars: Sunrise

View of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft from the south. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran

Natural-colour view of Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on January 2010.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.)

Original caption: “NASA
The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury’s spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there.

NASA/Voyager 2 Team – Neptune

Uranus as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute PLUTO

Data visualization of the Sun from the Moon as seen from Hadley Rille, the Apollo 16 landing site. The topography and shadows are scientifically accurate. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Ernie Wright

Run Run Run!

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RDP Monday: CASCADE

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Mount Rainier is part of the Cascade Mountain range here in Washington state.

It’s a pretty impressive mountain. It’s huge. It’s also killer.

That aside, I have a funny story about what it is like to live next to a giant, very much alive and able to wipe you out in one good belch volcano.

In toilet town- where I exist- we have  a LaharWarning System and according to plan if you hear the alarm you have time to run for you life. Well they don’t say that, but that’s what it amounts too.

There’s a sign like this on the street I walk my dog on.

First of all, if everyone jumped in their cars and tried to get on the freeway they’d end up like those people in Pompeii who are now on display in museums. Second. I know there was this drill where people were supposed to run up this hill called Meridian-  because you’d be safe at the top.

Nobody made it in time.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

I guess when your ticket gets punched, its time for you to go and that situation is NOT open to debate.

However, I do hope that I don’t get done in by Mount Rainier because of all the ways to go this one has to be the lamest.

What Would Krampus Do?

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This is the time  of year when Christmas Revelers,Turkey Connoisseurs and Halloween Afficionados start telling each other to stay in their own lanes,

For real, do I need a bunch of Turkey Munchers to say when I can listen to Holiday music-  or start Halloween shopping so that I can enjoy these moments? Ha. I Do NOT.

For you consideration:

When I was little my Grandfather told me all about Krampus.

Krampus was Santa’s side kick and if you weren’t good, you just didn’t get a lump of coal. Krampus would show up, put you in a sack, spirit you away into the woods and bake you into a pie.

I adored Krampus.

Over the years Krampus went from folklore that existed in some communities to pretty much being a rock star and now you can buy his ornaments wherever ornaments are sold.

You can buy Krampus stuff over Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas and for some reason Easter too.

Krampus doesn’t CARE what the date on the calander IS. HE’s going to suit up, grab his sack, his switches and ride into your town when he darn well feels like.

So my advice to you is, if you feeling like celebrating your favorite festival months and months early,

Be like Krampus.

He knows how to have a good time.

amm

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