Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Death of a Toy Soldier by Barbara Early

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Death of a Toy Soldier by Barbara Early: Reviewed by Jeanne When a man shows up with a box of old toys, Liz McCall isn’t surprised.   Toy appraisals are a staple at We...

Via WELCOME TO HELL ~ by Glenn Walker: Bionic Nostalgia - The Six Million Dollar Man

WELCOME TO HELL ~ by Glenn Walker: Bionic Nostalgia - The Six Million Dollar Man: Esquire TV (formerly the much missed G4 channel) has been showing old reruns of "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bion...

Hey, You! Three Horned Face!!

Like westerns, I have always had a thing for dinosaurs. I think they are very cool. Awesome, in fact, and would love to have the ability to do the time travel thing. Of course, while folks can land things on comets now (so very cool), time travel is still not possible. Instead, I have to settle for really good books such as CarnosaurWeekend (Kyler Knightly and Damon Cole Book 1) by Garnett Elliot (somebody you should be reading in all his flavors) and live vicariously.


Fortunately, at this point in my life, I have big time skills in living vicariously.

I recently wrote about those three horned face dinosaurs known as Triceratops for Tapir And Friends Animal Store. No one knows what they went through on the dino playgrounds, but it could not have been easy.  While I did not address that issue at the link above, I did address a few other things including the fact they apparently did not have jet packs and were not used by space aliens in galactic rodeos. 

Via Tapir and Friends Animal Store: Get Your Paraceratherium Replica Here!

 One of my recent freelance writing efforts. I really wanted to add something about how primitive humans rode these things bareback as they dueled with clubs and that is how medieval jousting eventually came to be, but somebody would take the deal serious and things would not end well. 


Tapir and Friends Animal Store (Realistic Stuffed Animals and Plastic Animals): Get Your Paraceratherium Replica Here!

The Great Sphinx of Giza and Tapir and Friends Animal Store

Anyone that knows me at all knows I have a very deep and often seriously warped sense of humor. What I think is funny tends to get me in trouble from time to time with those who are so clearly humor challenged. An accompanying problem is some folks take what I come up with very seriously and then get outraged when they are shown to be a little misguided in their belief. Clearly, I need a satire tag like Facebook had to do with The Onion. Both of those deals were often issues at the jobs I worked at over the years and can be a problem with my freelance work.

Sheryl Todd owner and grand poobah of Tapir and Friends Animal Store allows me a little leeway, but she is also aware of the problem of those who don't get the humor or believe everything. When I wrote the piece for the Great Sphinx of Giza she thought a small part of it was a bit problematic. My idea that I could state that scientists have never determined one way or another whether the nose of the sphinx was actually lost in a great battle between an alien robotic creature of huge proportions reminiscent of a Mr. Potatohead and the Sphinx given powers by the alien race of Illumanti in an attempt to save mankind and keep the stargates open might not be as funny as I thought it was.

So, it was lost to the editing room floor. In wake of another recent piece, this time on pufferfish that should be up soon, Sheryl (aka @tapirgal on twitter) suggested that maybe I should start sharing such tidbits here under the moniker "Tapir Outtakes."  Seems like a heck of an idea......

Crazy Free Shipping at Tapir and Friends Animal Store

Go buy some stuff as the below was posted on Facebook earlier today.....

CRAZY FREE SHIPPING! http://store.tapirback.com/ This is so crazy I'm almost shaking. In order to stay competitive with the big online stores, we are giving FREE SHIPPING a trial run! TO MAKE THIS WORK, we need to increase sales to help cover our costs. HELP US SAVE YOU MONEY! Shop early for the holidays, SHARE, spread the word, and let's make free shipping last forever!!! (Our domestic and overseas minimums to get free shipping are minimal . . . check it out!) http://store.tapirback.com/

 So, make the boss happy and go buy some stuff. Heck, if you know another Scorpio besides me (and you would now if you did as we are intense) you could pick them up one of these Scorpion beaded keychains.  These are bark scorpions and I recently wrote about them in the piece on the site here.

Those are not the only things I have been writing about. You can see an updated list of my longer pieces by putting in my name in the search box onsite. While I have written a lot these past few weeks, I have not posed and am not the model for the "Scuba Diver Kevin (Underwater Adventurer Toy)."

I have more Texas Grade A Beef and far less hair.

Blue Sharks and the Tapir And Friends Animal Store

Back in High School when just about everything seemed possible I seriously thought about pursuing a degree in marine biology. Life had a different plan so that didn't happen. Even though I am very much land locked these days and there is no way I can ever learn to scuba dive like I always wanted to,  I'm still very interested in marine life. One of the fun things about doing the freelance writing for Tapir and Friends Animal Store is that every so often I get to write about stuff that really interests me.

Such is the case here with blue sharks.

Via Tapirgal's World: Adding Animals

 Update on some things that have been going on....

Tapirgal's World: Adding Animals: Drake Park, Bend, Oregon ~ February 7, 2009 Canada Goose Photo by Sheryl Todd Lee , Kevin , Amy , and I have all been working hard ...