Top 5 Animals

I checked REM's Murmur out of the library today & noticed a sweet pic of llamas in the liner notes. Could it be that I've never actually looked @ the liner notes of that album before? I suppose, but it seems unlikely. None-the-less, it's a great picture. couldn't find a copy of it on-line though, so I just took one. It's obviously blurry & has bad lighting, but you get the picture:For those of you who don't know this, llamas are my #1 favorite animal. I've been a fan of them since the early 90's, & over the last 20 or so years I've met a few. It's always been a dream of mine to live somewhere where I could have some. Alas, chickens & bees are what are allowed here. Someday we'll move & get some llamas. They'll always be #1 in my book.

What's #2 you ask? Stick w/ me & you'll get all 5.
2) Hippo: The most deadly of the giant beasts of Africa. The hippo kills more people every year than either the lion or the Elephant. They're pretty sweet.
3) Owl: This is a newer addition to the top 5. It was really Isaiah's fascination w/ them that in turn led to my own interest. They're super cool.
4) Elephant: Though not as deadly as the hippo, elephants are pretty awesome. They have trucks! To paraphrase Pinter Ranawat's father, "I mean, trunks! Please!" (How did I not know about the connect between that episode of Seinfeld & the Harold Pinter play of the same name?) There must be other animals w/ trunks, but none as cool as the elephant.
5) Chicken: Having acquired 4 this past summer, I've developed a love for them... even though they're dumber than a box or rocks. They've been producing well all winter too. I'd read that they might lay less if they're too cold, so I guess we've done a good job of keeping them warm enough.

With owl & chicken entering the top 5, I suppose it'd be a good thing to explain which ones have since left the top 5. Those would be the platypus & the manatee. They're still in the overall top 10 though, along w/ alligators, polar bears, & moose... or mooses depending who you ask.

RIP: Len Lesser... You Still Say Hello

I have 2 favorite Uncle Leo episodes, the one where he is caught stealing and the one where Jerry calls him an Adonis. I aways thought that he should have gotten a spin-off, or at least that there should have been a spin-off based on the lives of the secondary characters... it could have rotated through them from week to week. You know, Puddy, the Rabbi, the dentist, Banya, Jackie Chiles, the chick w/ the perfect tits, etc. Alas, that is no longer an option as Len Lesser, the man who played Uncle Leo, passed away yesterday. Apparently, he was working on a memoir (who isn't?), but it may not have been far enough along to be salvaged. I can't imagine I would have read it anyway, but I bet that dude had some interesting Hollywood stories to tell.In other celebrity death news, since Jason's site is no longer w/ us, I think maybe I should host a death pool here. In keeping w/ the structure of Jason's version, send me a list of at least 25 people and ensure they are in the order you want them. If two people choose the same celebrity, the one who has that person higher on the list will get that person. I'll figure out the point system this weekend, but I imagine that the younger people will get more points as was the case w/ Jason's version. You might want to include more than 25 on your list so as to ensure that you have the full contingent even if you lose out to someone else in terms of the first come, first serve situation. Get me a list ASAP and you can start accruing points. There won't be an end date for submissions, but if someone dies before you submit, that person will obviously not be available for you. Try to get me your team by March 1st. I will sort them out and post them then. Happy team selecting. Don't post your team here though so as to keep it a secret untill all the teams are set. Send it to my facebook or e-mail me: andrepeltier@hotmail.com