rats
June 9, 2009
- Meet Tallulah... the latest addidtion to our ratty family. Ryoma went to buy some provisions for our other girls yesterday evening and saw this little one in the section of the store reserved for unwanted critters. She had a serious eye infection when she first arrived at the store, so she missed being adopted with the other babies. She's spent the last four months of her life waiting for someone ...
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May 20, 2009
- THE HOTTEST SPOT IN TOWN July '73, Times Square, New York...There's a recession on, but you can't tell by me. I've got a bar job-- twenty-seven bucks a night and all the goldfish I can eat. It's at the Hotel Diplomat, an SRO on 43rd. St. and Sixth Ave. We call it "the Roach Motel" because once you check in you don't check out. Half the tenants are seniors, shuffling around the mahogany ...
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March 26, 2009
- Today was a day like many others, with only a minor difference: I’m fighting off the tail end of a cold season bug, which turned out to be a rather muscular dragon's tail knocking me back down every time I got up. A gentle rain fell as I woke up. It served as a musical backdrop to the crying of gulls, the singing of the resident male robin, and the trilling of song sparrows. Despite a light ...
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March 15, 2009
- Today at Pets and Their Authors my dog Amigo interviews Gina Collia Suzuki's white rat: Maris.Gina Collia Suzuki is an artist and also a Red Room author. She writes satirical fiction and historical nonfiction focused on 18th century Japanese art. Stop by if you get the chance to say hello to Maris. Here's a little peek: I had always found rats creepy... until now. Just look at that ...
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March 2, 2009
- In addition to Ukiyo-e broadsheets and books, and Shin-hanga broadsheets, I also collect kuchi-e. Kuchi-e (lit. 'mouth-pictures') were frontispieces, inserted into the fronts of Meiji era novels and literary magazines (although independent kuchi-e prints were also produced). Generally produced as fold-outs (hence the folds), these prints were produced using sophisticated printing techniques, ...
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February 12, 2009
- During a visit to see the local vet, Maris was sitting in a travel case, along with her sister, Mrs Peabody, when a woman in the waiting room asked if the noises being emitted from the case were being made by a hamster. When that woman was told that the girl responsible for the chattering was in fact a rat, she exclaimed 'oh, Ihate rats!' and moved away. As Maris appeared, looking as cheerful as ...
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November 10, 2008
- This charming little lady is the latest addition to my rat print collection. The print, dating from 1895, is the work of Numata Kashu (1838-1901), a pupil of Numata Gessai (1787-1864). Numata was a painter from Nagoya who, in 1888, helped in the decoration of the Japanese Imperial Palace. From the proportions of the body, this little lady appears to be rather young. Her tail, the length of which ...
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