It’s not shaped like a dick or infused with NyQuil, but the latest news from the Voodoo Doughnut camp is still at a safe distance from normalcy. Long a place for sticky-fingered humans to tie the proverbial knot, the doughnut shop is now going to marry Mr. Mollie and Café Mocha Valencia on the night […]
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Have a Wonderful Holiday…
… Or I strangle the cat. (A NOTE TO BLOGTOWNIES! The Mercury staff is taking a few days off to celebrate the holiday with our friends and family. But be sure to check back in on Wednesday, Dec 30 when Blogtown will be back in all its semi-relevant glory! HAPPY HOLIDAYS, YA’LL!)
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Free Kitten!
I know this is the wrong forum for this—and it’s not even Cat Friday™ yet—but it’s freezing outside and this kitten needs a home. This tender ball of adorableness appeared on our porch last night—we think it had been living under our shed—and while clearly a stray, it’s definitely not feral. In fact, it’s probably […]
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Adorable Video of the Day
And now… an adorable video of a boy seeing a lobster for the first time. WOW!
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Vanity Fair on the Rise of Cute.
The popularity of Cute Overload (and the more than 150 other cute-animal sites catalogued by the recommendation engine StumbleUpon, including Stuff on My Cat, Cute Things Falling Asleep, Kittenwar, and I Can Has Cheezburger) reflects a growing self-infantilization that is also in evidence at the social-networking site Facebook, where countless subscribers have posted photos of […]
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Coats for Cubs
The annual Buffalo Exchange fur-donation program is right around the corner, kicking off on the 14th of this month through April 22nd. For those unfamiliar with the “Coats for Cubs” program, it’s a drive to collect authentic fur and shearling pieces—even just trims and collars—for the Humane Society to use as bedding for injured and […]
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Help Find Alela Diane’s Cat
Bramble Rose and Alela Diane, during happier times. I don’t want this to become a regular feature on the blog, but I’m a sucker for a lost pet in need. Singer Alela Diane has lost her cat, Bramble Rose. To make matters worse, she is about to embark on a national tour today. Since touring […]
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Of Bears, Part III of III
Here’s part one. Here’s part two. This is Hugh Glass before. PART III: HUGH GLASS, RELUCTANT PIRATE This is my favorite bear attack story of all time. Hugh Glass was a hella grizzled frontiersman—”a sailor, a reluctant pirate with Jean Lafitte, and an honorary Pawnee”—whose hella-grizzledness helped him survive the most badass ordeal in the […]
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Thank You, Internet
Sarah McLachlan speaks out, soulfully, about internet cruelty to animals. Bless you, writer/producer/director Crystal Delahanty. (Also, the pug in the toilet totally wins.)
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On Bears, Part II of III
(Continued from this morning.) “I just..wanted…some COOOOOOOORN!!!” PART II: KESAGAKE Now, Old Two Toes was a frightening bear, there can be no doubt. But just one year before he devoured Frank Welch, 61, and subsequently lost his life in the high forests of Wyoming, an even more fearsome beast was chomping humans on the other […]
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On Bears, Part I of III
“I thought I was about to get laid and eat some delicious peanut butter, but instead all I found was a mouthful of nylon and this weird plastic monkey. Thanks for the bait and switch, science dick.” PART I: PREDATOR SHIELD™ The other night, on the cable television (which is mine as of three weeks […]
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Welcome to Animals with Lightsabers Thursday!
All of the above and more here. (Octopus! Pandas! Some sort of newt or something!) Thanks to Kiala for the heads up.