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For those who missed it, Pye caught his first bird yesterday and promptly brought it in the house to show mom, mom, thinking the bird was dead took it right back outside and shut the cats inside, assuming she'd give it a nice burial and maybe plant something fitting next to it. The bird, however, in a scene straight out of Monty Python's Holy Grail announced that it was not dead yet and feeling much better. I breathed a sigh of relief, though prepared myself to take it to the local wildlife rescue place if it needed help. Luckily it was just a bit punchy and wobbly but recovered after a few minutes and flew off.

Hopefully the bird learned an important lesson about going for seeds on the ground rather than just sticking with the bird feeder. Death definitely comes from below on my patio.

Pye ran around the living room convinced he'd just misplaced his prey. I suspect he may also have learned a valuable lesson about bringing prey items into the house. It's not that mom isn't impressed, it's just that certain toys belong outside, not inside.

Aside from that I got to play a round of "Guess the Mystery Bruise" after the weekend's move. The one on my knee where I bashed it into the trailer hook up on the back of the Uhaul is actually pretty impressive. Three purple/black spots in the shape of a triangle, kinda looks like I underwent some weird alien experiment. I can identify most of them but there are a few that still boggle me.

Also caught the first two episodes of a fun Chinese drama called "7 Swordsmen" which seems kinda sorta like "7 Samurai" but with all the best HK tropes thrown in. My favorite sequence was the Master handing out the 7 magic swords to his disciples. I told moonlightnrain that throughout the sequence I kept hearing Oprah in my mind yelling, "You get a sword! You get a sword! Everybody gets a sword!!!"

Wow...

What the hell do you say about this?

At a May 6 barbecue, organizers served up a T-bone steak, baked potato and all the fixings for just $10. Overhead flapped a Confederate flag that bore white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan markings.

A Klan banner smack in the middle of a northern Michigan, small-town cookout sponsored by the Rapid City Businessmen's Association caused a stir among some who attended. The flag also focused unwanted attention on this spot-on-the-map about 20 miles northeast of Traverse City.

"When we drove into the parking lot and got out of the car, I was shocked and disgusted and wanted to get back in the car," said Dick Ault, of Alden, who said he stayed because a group of friends had gathered there. "Some thought it was a Confederate flag, which was bad enough, but then we saw it was a KKK flag."

The flag included a cross inside a circle, accompanied by the phrases "white power" and "Ku Klux Klan," but its message didn't bother everyone who attended.

"I didn't care one way or another about the flag being up. It's not a big deal," said Tom Tucker, of Rapid City, a cookout volunteer. "Should it have been up? No. I stood the pole up myself. Whoever put the flag up, I don't know, but I put the pole up. If anybody is going to holler at anyone, it should be me."

A tattered American flag arrived with the pole and they couldn't fly that, Tucker said, so someone retrieved another flag to run up the line.

Someone just happened to have a KKK flag in their car and they happened to fly it and no one else happened to say, "Hey that's a KKK flag! We shouldn't be flying that! WTF?!" I love the complete disinterest everyone seems to have in it, no biggie, whatcha gettin' all worked up about? Christ on a fucking cross, what is wrong with these people?

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