Squishy Booty

I was feeling absolutely crummy yesterday. Stuck in bed with the bird flu. Well, probably not bird flu, but I'm going to tell everybody that I had the bird flu. Much needed panda therapy today. Drove a total of seven hours to spend an hour staring at pandas. I guess you can call that obsessed. I prefer to think of it as paying tribute to my distant relatives.


Baby panda. I dub thee Booty. Because she has a big butt.


This is Squishy. Squishy is Booty's big brother. He was much cuter than Booty as a cub. We have a special connection because we both hail from Asia, lead lonely solitary lives, and have trouble finding mates.


Baby and mother, schlumping. Such a dramatic pose.


Here we have Ennis and Jack, running off to Brokeback Mountain for a "fishing trip." Alma is left behind with the screaming kids. Alma is outwardly suspicious because Ennis never brings back any fish. But in her heart, she knows Ennis' truth. She is hiding her head in shame.


Kong, looking longingly at his beloved but unattainable Ann. The part of the overweight hairy ape is played by Peter Jackson.


Tomatillo Braised Pork.


Duck Confit.


This hippopotamus kept following me. This seems to happen to me a lot. I remember the hippos at the Taiwan zoo used to do the same thing when I was three years old. I probably smell like hippo food.