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Five Four Vox invites up for grabs for anyone who wants 'em, just send me an email address where you want it sent. (My @lj address should work.) Also, on the off chance that there's anyone, anywhere on the entire planet who doesn't have a GMail account yet and wants one, I've still got a billion invites there too.

Note to self: remember to do the WordPress upgrade tonight when you get home, since you can't do it from behind a proxy.

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I just had to call about an order I placed from The New York Review of Books (four of the five books I ordered apparently failed to make it out of their NY warehouse). Their processing center is in Jackson, MS. Hearing the familiar accents on the other end of the line makes me miss...well, it's not "home" anymore, but it was for a very long time. To hear me talk, you'd never peg that I grew up in Mississippi but that was my home from the time I was very young until I left for college. At the time I couldn't wait to get away, but now I sometimes find myself wanting to go back. Not permanently I don't think, but just for a little while.

Nobody here but us chickens

Originally published at Mental Travelogue. You can comment here or there.

Don’t mind me, I’m just testing Wordpress/LJ-crossposting capabilities. If this works, maybe I’ll actually get back to posting in this blog occasionally. (It’s not like I can post here less )

Anyway. This is not the post you’re looking for…

Why I like animals better than large numbers of people

Country star accused of illegally killing tame bear

Authorities allege that Gentry purchased the bear from Greenly, a wildlife photographer and hunting guide, then killed it with a bow and arrow in an enclosed pen on Greenly's property in October 2004.

The government alleges that Gentry and Greenly tagged the bear with a Minnesota hunting license and registered the animal with the state Department of Natural Resources as a wild kill.

[...] The bear's death was videotaped, and the tape later edited so Gentry appeared to shoot the animal in a "fair chase" hunting situation, the government alleges.

Yeah. Real sporting there, champ. Takes a big, brave, manly man to shoot a penned animal, particularly a tame one. I can see why you'd want to do some creative editing to make it look like it happened otherwise. I have, quite frankly, zero support for sport hunting to start with, and this just nauseates me.