Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Bird Brain
It’s been a little birdy around here lately. I’ve had a sighting of the Stow Lake herons, and I think I saw the peregrines climbing a thermal not far from my office. So, here’s a little more bird stuff. I know I had a bird story not too long ago but what the hell. It’s a whole biological family for god’s sake. They can handle a little narrative discontinuity.
It was several months ago that Kel told me about the flocks out by where she works. The area abuts the north bay, close enough to open water that all kinds of birds stumble by on their fluttery way to wherever birds go. Some of Kel’s colleagues know quite a bit about the birds, much more than I do – they recognize breeds I’ve barely heard of, woodtits and flummoxed flamewaders and all sorts like that; and they also understand birdy behaviors about which I know nothing, like aggression displays and kiting and flummoxed flamewading and such. These women are basically the repositories of all avian data, and I try to stay out of their way when it comes to such things. There are subjects about which I consider myself expert, and those about which I consider myself merely conversant; as to talking with Kel’s friends about birds, I try to keep my mouth shut and my ears open. These women know what they’re talking about, bird-wise, and there’s no reason for me to subject myself to superfluous embarrassment by foredoomed efforts to keep up with them.
Except, some months ago, Kel started telling me about these crazy flocks of birds that started showing up around where she works. As she described it, it happened every day just before dusk: hundreds and hundreds of little black birds would come together in these amazing formations, gathering from the four corners into huge masses that swerved and burbled and pulled like taffy in the air before recongealing into molten blobs, countless little black birds sucked into pulsating globular blots as if by their own gravitational opacity, separating mitotally into masses that parted and expanded and shifted and rejoined again in whole new constructions, ever evolving, ever moving….
That’s not exactly how she described it, I guess. She didn’t really even use words; she mostly used hand-gestures and widespread arms, but I thought I got the idea. “Little black birds, right?”
“Yeah, and they tower way up high, and then come right back into like a low flat thing, and they make this really weird sound….”
That nailed it for me. “Oh, starlings.”
I thought this was an easy one. However, Kel informed me that her friends had reached a different conclusion. “K & L say they’re robins.”
“Robins?,” I asked incredulously. “At dusk? In flocks? Black? What kind of robins are they thinking of?”
Kel didn’t know. All she knew was that her friends knew about such things, and they said they were robins. I didn’t argue - but I harbored a lingering uncertainty.
It was a few weeks later that the MIJ ran a story about the strangely viscous flocks above the 101 in San Rafael. Starlings, it announced. Vindication was mine. It tasted better than chicken, and it looked cool too.
More bird stuff later on. Now, a bit of fun. (fun to be provided by blog visitor.)(that’s you.)
that's just the way it seemed to me at 09:49 AM
Oooh!!! I feel like I should win a prize or something—I guessed starlings before I got to the end of the story! I’m not particularly bird saavy myself, but they haunt our area as well. I love the gurgly sound they make. They’re not considered a particularly ‘nice’ bird, but I love to listen to them.
Posted by
Randa on 05/02 at 02:10 PM
Manifest Destiny dictates a white-man’s prophecy - White-man’s world, white-man’s Apocolypse
Twenty-somethings are conditioned to respond positively to magic::::::they are the extacy generation.
This is not by accident. Expect they will be an important generation ("in charge”, etc) when the battle between the Anti-Christ and Second Coming of Christ ocurrs.
This of course will be a 20-year war-revelry cycle distraction theater, and they want these people consumed by the high level of magic that will ocurr.
This generation is The Damned.
Austrian Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis, yet people have (mental) health problems because of their disfavor, illustrating the preditory purpose of this discipline, this individual.
These people.
Of course Hitler was Austrian. Glock, maker of the semi-automatic gun favored by black street gangs such as the Bloods and the Crips, is Austrian.
RedBull Energy drink, Buwdeiser both Austrian.
The Holocaust was foreshadowing, yet another example of the Jews sacrificing to help the disfavored::::
1. 1492 exodus from Spain. Spain became evil - financed Columbus, initiated missionaries, USA (dumping ground of disfavored victimized by god), etc.
2. Spread throughout Europe as clue to Christians worshipping a false god.
3. “Quasi-Holocaust claim” contradicting boss.
4. 5. 6. 7. etc. etc. etc.
The Apocalypse (or an Apocalyptic event) will be initiated by an Austrian. When the national referendum to allow foreign-born individuals to run for president is introduced I recommend you DEFY and vote NO!! In the years prior to this vote the gods will send POWERFUL clues suggesting the IMPORTANCE OF DEFIANCE.
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Italy’s boot is a clue showing the god’s intent with the Romans AND their active involvement::::The gods micromanaged the Eutruscans into their role as Romans, just as they micromanaged me with Artificial Intelligence.
Oshkosh is a clue just as Lake Michigan and Green Bay are clues. Oshkosh is the ejaculate clue:::Life springs forth from this region.
Expect your traditional Second Coming of Christ to come from the region. Consistant with the possibility of matrilinial lineage it may be the mother’s family from the Lake Winnebago area fulfilling some “Manifest Destiny” bullshit theater::::You see Manifest Destiny all around you (corporate)::::Manifest Destiny dictates a white-man’s prophecy:::::White-man’s world, white-man’s Apocolypse. Expect The End to ocurr EXACTLY as it reads in Revelations.
This isn’t about reals and clones. This is about the brains and the brain-less:::The brain-less are people whose families have been OUT FOR GENERATIONS, families lucky enough to avoid this disturbing age and its accompanying abuses. ALL of them got out back when they were peasants, even the royal families and Pharrohs, and the gods used these tools to create this stratigic history here on Earth:::There is no such thing as Earthly-management. Also the gods replace strategic individuals frequently as a managerial tactic.
This is the key which unlocks the god’s puzzle.
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