Naw…Mongo straight!!
They’re pink from the bloodstreaks. And they looked mahvelous on you. On Spec…not so much.
Sorry for not getting back to this sooner, but a heartfelt thanks to all the members and fellow moderators for your good wishes.
That’s true of me in all my pictures. How does your camera work?
Man was that confusing with all the name changes.
I wish I were, I’ve always wanted to go. But I think L.A. is about a hundred years behind you in urban development. Just now we’re starting to build up, and “renting” is becoming a more acceptable long-term lifestyle arrangement. Just now we’ve begun a subway–all these things were happening in NYC around 1900 or so.
Also, though, I used to be javaman and that was just a colloquial name for the same species. At an early date I grew a deep interest in human evolution; I was young enough to read Scholastic books on the subject. One of them told the story about a Dutch army physician who was posted to Java who proceeded to unearth a shockingly low browed hominid skullcap together with a femur which may or may not have belonged to the skull. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus, meaning “Erect walking ape man”, and proceeded to sell it to the scholarly community as a true missing link. Mostly they didn’t buy it. Some thought it was just an unusually primitive human being; others came up with the bizarre notion it was nothing more than a giant gibbon. Back in Holland, Du Bois (for that was his name) made his son stand as a model for a full-length statute of P.e. as he envisioned it, even inscribing the letters “P.e” on the base of the statue. All in all, a sort of bizarre obsession not entirely unjustified, given the limited supply of specimens and knowledge in the field generally–and not without its peculiar charm. I’ve been drawn to this story ever since.
Wasn’t he once the grim spectre o’ Fred Death?
This reminds me of something I saw on the news recently. I think it was about the BP cleanup, when some commentator was saying that the clock was ticking every second we allowed the situation to continue.
Yes, that’s generally what clocks do around these parts, more or less constantly.