90 AVATARS IN 90 HOURS!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE Actually it was 91 avatars in about 96 hours but who’s counting? Not me, I’m unconscious. I don’t know what came over me. There I was on holiday, relaxing, wandering about. Hadn’t drawn a cartoon since the pygmy hippopotamus christmas card last Tuesday (and that was photoshopped). I was [...]
Firstdogonthemoon presents the Animal of the Day
Yearly Archives: 2008
Santa Kills Venomous Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans)
December 24, 2008 – 11:58 am
A Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) has been found by A HOUSEWIFE in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. “Having eluded authorities since being smuggled into Australia 5 years ago, the “large and exotic” offender was captured by a Melbourne housewife and will be put down.” You can read the whole article here: Turtle leading the resistance against Senator [...]
I am jealous
December 18, 2008 – 12:22 pm
I am drawing a 15 page extravaganza cartoon for Friday and have not had time to blog. In the meantime I have discovered that someone else has had the good idea I didn’t have but wanted to and didn’t realise until someone else had it. Bastard! Many will suggest that fuckyoupenguin is not the greatest [...]
My brush with fame! Dinner with Rocket (Eruca sativa)
December 12, 2008 – 1:02 pm
There are some who simply will not care (and rightly so), many more who wouldn’t even begin to understand. There are some fortunate folks however, who would be delighted and honoured and I count myself among them. Last night, half a dozen well meaning fellows and I had dinner with Rodney Eade, Coach of the [...]
7 kettles and a Black House Spider (Badumna insignis)
December 8, 2008 – 4:37 pm
Dad’s Araluen Clearance Sale – Part Two. There was more than one Black House Spider (Badumna insignis) discovered on the weekend. I found one in a box of wet weather gear (some of it old Australia Post Standard Issue) which was on the ping pong table with about 5 million other boxes of old crap. I [...]
White-Winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) and the end of the world.
December 4, 2008 – 1:28 pm
This is the bird that appears in the song “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks. It is a remarkable bird as are all of the other remarkable birds. White-winged Choughs are easily recognised but often mistaken for “crows”—a double mistake, as the birds most frequently called “crows” in Australia are actually ravens. And yet you continue [...]
80 Wombats die after beaching themselves to protest whale cull
November 30, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Did you know that licenses are being issued willy nilly to cull various native beasts including Swans and Wombats? (Swans? WTF?) It’s true! Apparently native animals are enormously inconvenient to those of us who like to eat meat and wear wool etc. so people who I have not met in Rural and Regional Australia will [...]
Giant Squid (Magnapinna sp. C) has elbows. Shock!
November 25, 2008 – 11:10 pm
This is a giant squid Big Fin squid. They have elbows now. This is one of those living way down deep doesn’t get seen very often Giant Squid. The question that springs to mind of course is: Why does a giant squid need elbows? Obviously it doesn’t, and yet there they are. If there was [...]
Guinea Pig (Cavia porcellus)
November 22, 2008 – 10:45 pm
This video (entitled “Our three guinea pigs fighting for a cucumber”) consists of three guinea pigs fighting for a cucumber. It is 78 seconds long and I think it is entirely marvelous. I have never met any of these guinea pigs. The story begins with our three protagonists sitting on what appears to be a bed [...]
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