Daily Archives: 3 March 2007
Dead Possums Everywhere
Something very strange is going on. I walk to school on the train tracks – partly because it’s quicker (direct route), partly because there’s less traffic, but mostly, I guess, because there aren’t many people around and I can listen to music and think through stuff without distractions. Alright, well, yesterday I noticed a dead possum by the tracks – head severed completely with its body on one side of the rail and the head on the other. Kinda creepy, because it doesn’t really seem a likely way for a possum to die. After all, trains make a lot of
Superunsize Me
Mr. Tweedy wants to try an interesting experiment: eat nothing but McDonalds for a month, but keep up his exercise routine, and see if he loses weight. This is, of course, in response to Supersize Me – a 2004 “documentary” in which a man spends some time eating nothing but McDonalds to “prove” that it causes weight gain. I think most sensible people see through the hoax. Obviously eating all and only McDonalds is no one’s idea of healthy. The very premise of the film is disingenuous: even McDonalds doesn’t peddle its products as something the entire human population should
