Posted by
Jill Cowan on Sunday, October 19, 2008 04:03 pm
Remember that big ol’ freaking fire on Angel Island earlier this week? Well, it turns out, we were lying when we claimed “We didn’t start the fire.” And when we say we, we mean the larger general “we” of humankind. Through process of elimination, the Marin County Fire Department deduced that the fire was most likely started by people. Human people, that is. And–rest assured–the Marin County Fire Department will find the ones responsible. The good news is, if there hadn’t been a fire on Angel Island, and we hadn’t read the article about its origin, we wouldn’t have learned all these cool new things.
Here are some things we learned from the SF Examiner’s article about the Angel Island fire: read more »
Posted by
Jill Cowan on Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:27 am
OK, can we just acknowledge right now that raccoons do not get nearly enough credit for being as adorable and cuddly-looking as they actually are? When we came across the semi-elusive Unit 2 Raccoon this afternoon we initially almost tried to scoop it up in our arms and snuggle with it for a bit–but then we remembered that it would probably bite us, and it was probably digging around in dirty dorm dumpsters. Alas, we were forced to content ourselves with gazing soulfully into those inquisitive dark eyes and imagining what could have been. (Cue “Happy Together” … )
In a journalistic flash, it dawned on us that this was a prime photo opp, and we reached for our camera. Unfortunately, our procyonid pal took our breaking of eye contact as a signal that our interspecies moment had passed, and proceeded to slip adroitly through the bars in the gate in front of the Vedanta Society, located on the corner of Haste and Bowditch. We can only assume that the ring-tailed omnivore was headed to an afternoon meditation session.
Image Source: Jill Cowan
Raccoon [Wikipedia]
Vedanta Society of Berkeley [Website]
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