I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About [SATIRE] www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About

I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. Fo...

I’m no body language expert, but jaysus! Did he rock back and forth too?

Maybe he slides down the hill in a burning dumpster before plunging over the cliff, bouncing, orca, etc.? And is attacked by a goose during the fall?

Black-Crowned Night Heron skulking about. (I call them The Knights Who Say WOK!)

A Wilson's Snipe, a plump shorebird with a long bill. The bill has sensory receptors at the tip that help with finding tasty things to eat while poking about in the mud.

A budding cypress dome!

The river is at flood stage, and this wee gator is posting up across from our driveway gate. He goes away when I reenact the Lion’s Roar scene from “Kung Fu Hustle” though.

This little gator (maybe 2.5 feet) is sad about the outcome of last night’s game.

😂

a goose is standing in the dirt near a sidewalk

ALT: a goose is standing in the dirt near a sidewalk

Right? It’s like “Help Vladimir Putin protect Ukraine.”