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If you’ve never chased a dog with a chicken in its mouth around a muddy, goose-shit-covered lawn, in the rain, in your bare feet, with a chest cold, then you haven’t lived a relatively happy life only to be struck down in your prime by pneumonia or some mysterious goose shit disease, like I’m ‘boutsta be.

FARM LIFE!

Today

4:00pm: I find this creep on the lawn again.

7:17pm: Dan calls my attention to this NPR news blog post:  “Study Finds Goats Adjust Their ‘Accents’ Based On Social Surroundings”:

The BBC reports that… goats now join humans, bats and whales as the mammals known to adjust their vocal sound in response to a social environment.

8:39pm: I read my Rob Brezsny horoscope for the week:

Have you ever gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This quirk allows them to have a field of vision that extends as far as 340 degrees, as opposed to humans’ puny 160-210 degrees. They can also see better at night than we can. Goats are your power animal in the coming week, Taurus. Metaphorically speaking, you will have an excellent chance to expand your breadth and depth of vision. Do you have any blind spots that need to be illuminated? Now’s the time to make that happen.