Y’know, it occurs to me… Jimothy himself is probably completely unaware of all of the attention he’s getting, and to the extent he even considers the matter at all, he probably thinks of his life as pretty bad (because that spine is probably maladaptive, and makes a lot of racoonish things difficult for him).
Which leads me to wonder… If there were some race of highly-advanced beings watching us, which one of us losers might they, unbeknownst to us, consider heroes?
No, youse hoomans would not be regarded as “cute” because you lack fur. Cuteness is all about soft pettable fur, plus a constant smile with one’s tongue hanging out!
It is amazing how the world has taken to Jimothy as a thing… like I expected PNW sure… maybe even west coast, but never would I have thought the country and the world would care…
Now that (social) media is global, a story like this carries everywhere, not just in the Seattle Times.
The bad news is the same applies to local mayhem and stupidity. So we’re all wallowing in the flood of news about every violent jerkwad in the nation. And 1/3rd of a billion people can get up to some shit.