Back to the homestead we go! "Want something?" -VHS Head, "Frozen" (2014) "Some conscious light gets through somehow, yet I fail to notice, then I'm heading for the ground" -BT "Running Down The Way Up" (1999) There's a lot going on, dress warm and keep watch. Love is free. Love is free. Love is free. Love is free. (Ready to kick some ass!) Nature, uh, finds a way. Things keep rolling along, but at what cost? They say that creatures can perceive the beings beyond the veil that we cannot. I was alarmed to discover that the bear could not only speak, but knew all my sins. Never mind what's fueling my unstoppable flurry of blows. Come on, daddy needs another couple hundred tickets. "When people ask me what I do in the mountains all day," the mole quipped, "I tell them I'm boring!" You wanna know how I got these wings? Watch party at our place! We're going to binge Candle Cove! "I was an animal then. Behind all this, I'm an animal now, and someday, some grim situation or another will, with its claws, steal from me my humanity and leave me for a moment in philosophy a shattering animal. Today, I'd like to hope that's not me. I'm not there. I'm here. I will always be right here." -Tim Rogers, "action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi" (2022). "Pull this lever," they said. "It opens all the cages at once, easy peasy," they said. Take heart! There will be fascists enough to punch anon! Make your immortal rodent happy. Give her the cheese she has relied on for over 75 years of Constant Nutrition®. RIP to Laurent de Brunhoff (1925-2024), who carried the torch for a father taken from him far too early. Don't count this silly little mouse out just yet! Even so, it's going to be *quite* a climb, with some gnarly battles along the way. If that girl's going to keep her hearts full, she'd better use a spin attack! A nibble here, a nibble there, and before you know it, you've made a treasure from someone else's trash! Just one problem! Someone put all the racing stripes on sideways! They say she's got specimens to die for. Bears shouldn't walk on sunshine! Not like this! My journey shall take me beyond the shore, beyond the sea, beyond even the sky itself. Reach for the top with the flats of your feet! Pokémon shouldn't fight! Not like this! Teach a monkey to shoot, and they'll paint on a grimmer, grander canvas for the rest of their lives. All I need is water, and fruit, and to impress my friends. Behold, the first feed manufacturing facility to shift the focus from responding to contamination of the supply to preventing it. "In an orderly world, there's always a place for the disorderly." -Ashleigh Brilliant If it were Ours, We'd make it much bigger. Film's future is so bright, we've got to wear shades! A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The animals will feel an overwhelming peace descend when you are around." "You are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you. You've unraveled DNA, and at the same time, you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing. D'you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? **You lot?**" - *The Second Coming* (2003), as sampled by Orbital (2004) on "You Lot" One might go so far as to say that we live in a society. Now that they've been adorned with flowers, there's no denying that these are the beasts of all time. Ah, Paris. City of love, city of cake. To go on this journey, goat north. It's race to discover land between the lookouts in the crow's nests and the crew looking into the water! The moon is not a place for people. It will never forgive these people for trying to be Selenites. Zardoz gets to play Santa this year. The results are surprisingly heartwarming! Where my guinea pigs at! Come and get some citrus! Just *every* kind of animal, all hanging out together! Can't hardly ponder 'em all, there's so many orbs out here! Would you like you memories with tea? Or with gravy? "The name of the story will be Time, but you must not pronounce its name." -Robert Penn Warren A feast fit for one or more rodents! This motley crew's only got one thing on the mind: Dem bones. A salmon is dead, and the culprit has been identified by a witness. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The pets are happy for your safe return." "If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system" -Ashleigh Brilliant. A pink zebra is looking to get a trio of animals drunk; only the one with the worst judgment is interested. Space bear was promised space whales, and boy are there space whales! Walk slowly through the forest, for it is full of resting creatures. Warning: Coffee may be the brutal, searing temperature of the sun. Truly, it's good to be alive. Some round, chill friends soak in the sunshine. A royal crow announces, "Hooray! A brand spankin' new place to work!" A dog is astonished. Even a flat Earth resides in a vast and voluminous universe that is full of wonders. Two onlookers witness slowpoke, painted liked one of their French girls. The feeble scribblings of humanity are no match for the combined efforts of the flora and fauna. The Kird Ape is 1/1, and receives +1/+2 when the controller has forests in play. Electric mice are able to metabolize both direct calories and alternating calories. "Normal times may possibly be over forever." -Ashleigh Brilliant "A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge." -China Miéville, 1998. (A rat's become a fat cat, flanked by kings gone rank.) Auber on fiddle, K. K. Slider on guitar, Snake on flute, Turtle on drums, Oryx on lyre, Prizmatik on pipes, with vocals by Cool Cow. In the mind of the creature, fly away from here, from this human cognition to the Umwelts that are near. "I mean, you're not doing it now, either." The tripartite faces of slumber, the boy, the bear, and the forebearer. "You can’t deny this song is actually a banger." It's the landing. Every zoo is a heavy petting zoo if you're brave enough. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA Code 21 CFR) sets the standard and regulates the range of irradiating laboratory animal food products between 10-50kGy for Electronic Beam (e-beam), X-Ray and Gamma (Cobalt) Irradiation. How is an ungulate like a human-powered aircraft? The capybara is a singularly luminous animal, and space aliens have concerns. A postal cat swipes at a postal rat, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Cats playing golf, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Eight ants circle on a Moebius band, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Opus the penguin tries and fails to fly, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A wanderer stands above a sea of fog, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Dr. Strange is attacked by a monster, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A Hippopotamus cast in bronze, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A wolf looks on. A man holding a and puppet aloft, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." 
