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cblj_backupI just did this big venty writeup about how the people who manage my transit card are incompetent weasels, and then I looked at it and thought, you know what, Sam? This is the least interesting thing ever to anyone who is not you. So the upshot is: when you send out an email about a giant cock-up you committed, your clients will hate you less if you send the email on a day the customer service phone lines are actually open.
IN LOCAL COYOTE NEWS: Scandal rocks the sanitation department as implications arise that the city is officially condoning the use of coyotes as pest control. (This is not actually scandalous, I just love it when mid-level government employees get all srs bzness about shit like how many rabbits a coyote eats.)
I wish it were true. I wish Chicago would embrace the coyote, shelter it, love it, and proudly admit that we keep coyotes around because they eat pests smaller than themselves. Granted, there's kind of a wonky logic to using a large predator capable of taking down a dog or small human to control essentially harmless bunny rabbit populations, but whatever. Our coyotes rule.
Somewhere in all of this there's a novel. If I keep prodding at it, the story will fall out. This is why "chicago coyote" is now in my google alerts. Also because coyotes are cool.
IN LOCAL COYOTE NEWS: Scandal rocks the sanitation department as implications arise that the city is officially condoning the use of coyotes as pest control. (This is not actually scandalous, I just love it when mid-level government employees get all srs bzness about shit like how many rabbits a coyote eats.)
I wish it were true. I wish Chicago would embrace the coyote, shelter it, love it, and proudly admit that we keep coyotes around because they eat pests smaller than themselves. Granted, there's kind of a wonky logic to using a large predator capable of taking down a dog or small human to control essentially harmless bunny rabbit populations, but whatever. Our coyotes rule.
Somewhere in all of this there's a novel. If I keep prodding at it, the story will fall out. This is why "chicago coyote" is now in my google alerts. Also because coyotes are cool.
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Date: 2010-12-23 08:40 pm (UTC)Plus, fan-service.
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Date: 2010-12-23 07:38 pm (UTC)Like the kangaroo.
(possibly because when I was a teenager, there was a news report of a loose emu from a local exotics farm....*and it was never mentioned again.*)
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Date: 2010-12-23 07:54 pm (UTC)And if they're not, they just go into convenience stores and hang out in the drinks fridge.
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Date: 2010-12-24 12:59 am (UTC)I think actually rabbits might be a bigger problem. We have a lot of them, and they can do more chewy-damage than rats can. Plus rats are a more residential issue, whereas the rabbits are everyfuckingwhere.
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Date: 2010-12-24 06:28 am (UTC)not feed the ratsswitch to covered dumpsters or compactors. Grossest meetings ever.no subject
Date: 2010-12-23 08:37 pm (UTC)Go terrorist squirrels.
Anyway, coyotes are awesome
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Date: 2010-12-23 09:01 pm (UTC)(Can we get a Nameless sequel, where Nameless is a Chicago coyote? He could fall in love with a bunny mask maker, it'd be beautiful.)
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Date: 2010-12-23 10:36 pm (UTC)It's better than releasing myxomatosis into the rabbit population though. And I second what another commenter said about coyotes eating rats, which would surely also be a useful side effect.
Plus - coyotes!
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Date: 2010-12-24 12:11 am (UTC)Matt Smith.
THE DOCTOR is NOT condoning the use of coyotes. (But you know that he secretly thinks they're cool. Like bow ties.)
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Date: 2010-12-24 01:58 am (UTC)Did you know that The Commandments of Coyote has gone viral? There are 180,000 links to it on the internet, or so says Google. If there were a god of the internet, it would probably be Coyote - he's the original troll of this continent. He's told as a sexy, disrespectful, inventive thieving nuisance and is still a culture hero in Native American and reconstructionist pagan myths. All he needs is a talking cat that speaks pidgin English in all caps. :D
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Date: 2010-12-24 04:39 pm (UTC)of course if the Chicago Coyotes were a sports team, what sport would it be? Certainly not football or rugby; they're nothing if not OBVIOUS.... something fast and sneaky and clever. Soccer? Hearts? Hide and Seek?
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