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Joseph Belli@josephpbelli.bsky.social |
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CA-based wildlife biologist working with condors, reptiles & amphibians. Writer, author of "The Diablo Diary" and "Beneath a Black and White Sky: A Year among Condors at Pinnacles National Park" (2024)
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It’s not much of a photo, but I had to share this one of a roadrunner on my porch today. It had been 15 years in between roadrunner sightings here, so I’m pretty excited!
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Howard Cosell called Mickey Mantle a whoremonger….
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Nice-sized alligator lizard resting on the base of my stationary bike in the garage.
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Remember the Dentyne commercial “4 out of 5 dentists surveyed recommend sugarless gum for patients who chew gum?” I asked my dentist if that meant one somehow recommended gum with sugar and he said no; the outlier recommended not chewing gum at all.
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Gonna say Ruby-crowned Kinglet. They’re often in thick brush, always moving, and don’t always flash the ruby color that gives them their name.
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Me with an itch in the middle of my back standing against the stucco siding of my house moving up and down in order to scratch it. That said, pretty sure that turtle shells never itch.
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I’m not brave enough to try stinging nettle, but I have made a salad out of Miner’s Lettuce and it wasn’t bad at all…much more palatable to me than Arugula!
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I wanted to see Tony the Tiger eat something, anything, besides Frosted Flakes. Like Cap’n Crunch. Not the cereal; I wanted him to eat the real Cap’n Crunch.
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My adventure is C): Rising in a semi-trance in the dark hoping to somehow take a (seated) piss and return to bed wonderfully drowsy, only to stub my toe on the way to the john and fully awaken.
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I can picture that entire post being read in full-throttle Sam Kinison mode. I wonder what else *builds character* and I gotta laugh because I triple-guarantee this guy will be voting for the presidential candidate possessing absolutely no character whatsoever.
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At this point he’s strictly a DH.
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Then the orange returns triumphantly a year later as marmalade.
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If he doesn’t seem impressed, remember that Bill and Ted brought him to San Dimas in the 90s.
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What I wanna know is if vision is, evolutionarily speaking our strongest sense, then why do so many of us have poor eyesight?
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Apropos of nothing, I just found out that Yorkshire pudding isn’t the refrigerated dessert I expected it to be.
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You should be proud that you’re a self-made man. Me, I don’t know why I came here tonight….
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Also “Never went to biology class.”
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If it’s The Eagles then there’s only one commandment: Take it Easy.
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“Never apologize.” “Never admit you’re wrong.”
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Agreed; summer colds are awful. Hope you feel better soon.
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So is a bun, and my midriff is a Costco hot dog cemetery.
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Gorgeous yellow-backed spiny lizard, Panoche Hills. Researchers are trying to determine if this population, at the northern limit of its range in CA, is genetically distinct from others.
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Tadpoles are (generally) herbivorous; adults are carnivorous. Tadpoles grow faster and transform sooner in warm water (unless the water dries up). Frogs are ambush predators, using their sticky tongue to capture prey and swallow it whole (frogs don’t have teeth).
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The Dung Beatles
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And everybody ghosted you afterwards.
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There was a fad in which people wore no more clothes than a cat (streaking), a domestic terrorist group called the Symbionese (as opposed to Siamese) Liberation Army, and Al Stewart’s “The Year of the Cat” was hands-down one of the greatest pop songs ever.
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I’d ask him to sing “Mr. Jones” or “Round Here.”
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That reminds me, didn’t Planter’s mascot, Mr.Peanut, die awhile back? It would’ve been something to see him do crunches in a top hat and monocle.
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Yes, and when I hear songs I see a unique setting with each that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the lyrics.
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I didn’t think there was a worse look than a business suit and a MAGA hat, but this just might be it.
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Who analyzes the psychiatrist?
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Jerry’s lamenting the demise of real men as if he’s Clint Eastwood. I seem to recall a Seinfeld episode in which George dates a woman who looks just like Jerry….
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So if I somehow manage to use my hooves to operate my iPhone and capture you & the wood nymphs bathing, would that constitute a stag film?
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They write like teenagers, all bombast, no nuance. And crazy: at least once a month one of them will put out a piece saying things like rainbows should be illegal, or a lamentation that the Three Stooges were Jewish.
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“There is a large laughingstock filled with my utterances. I do not wish to add to it, but I will because I just can’t help myself.”
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In my upbringing, that retort was often preceded by “You know why they don’t send donkeys to school?”
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Well-camouflaged little horned lizard, Pinnacles National Park. This one is missing its tail, and it won’t grow back.
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Oh, he’s taken a life— strangled Cap’n Crunch with his mustache.
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Canelo’s got the Clint Eastwood squint going!
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I may be going out on a limb here, but I think it tastes the same.
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If I was a billionaire I’d buy the entire Cheesecake Archipelago!
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This is the only evidence to date that the man possesses a sense of humor.
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Man, when I was a kid you had to get up and turn the channel on the TV….
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Tiny horned lizard, so well-camouflaged I nearly stepped on the little guy.
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Baby striped skunk exploring outside the den.
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That’s your prerogative, but I’ll tell you this: If my Caesar salad tastes even remotely like a Roman emperor, I’m tossing it toot sweet!
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Man, I barely remember that song! I had to look up who wrote it, since it’s hard to imagine the Carpenters penning a prog-rock song.
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Corporate campaign contributions.
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Wizards, genies, pretty much anyone granting a wish.
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