tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post2488210528086061190..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: Crows Without End (Not an image post, but image heavy)chris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-78253201395840172082015-01-16T16:55:52.243-05:002015-01-16T16:55:52.243-05:00Crows teach themselves to smoke. They can work out...Crows teach themselves to smoke. They can work out how to use fire.<br /><br />Give 'em opposable thumbs and they'll probably do a better job than we have.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-44484524702347910292014-12-15T17:41:45.845-05:002014-12-15T17:41:45.845-05:00There is a winter crow roost at the Univerisity of...There is a winter crow roost at the Univerisity of Waterloo where the crows gather in uncountable thousands. Literally not able to be counted. I know the guy who has to count the crow roost for the Kitchener Christmas Bird Count and he just throws up his hands in despair.DawnMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-59364376137385667492014-12-14T05:25:54.149-05:002014-12-14T05:25:54.149-05:00"ALL OF THEM" is debatable, pretty sure ..."ALL OF THEM" is debatable, pretty sure I wasn't there. But then, I'm a wrong kind of crow. I like this post anyhway.<br /><br />---RedcrowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-79718899062000156832014-12-13T21:52:49.979-05:002014-12-13T21:52:49.979-05:00I finally read the post.
Your brain is a lovely p...I finally read the post.<br /><br />Your brain is a lovely place.<br /><br />Now I have random thoughts rattling around about Raven and Odin and ravens and Loki and crows and fire. But I also have a headache.<br /><br />I see hawks and falcons here, and there's always that moment of meeting those eyes and thinking of the wise and magical goddesses who wear that shape. (And Loki, who borrows it... why?)<br /><br />The birds I tend to see in great numbers are seagulls.Lonesparkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278753827545905559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-90751905087212887582014-12-13T13:16:42.326-05:002014-12-13T13:16:42.326-05:00And yet what is a person more likely to see, someo...<em>And yet what is a person more likely to see, someone being killed or a crow? If crows flocked then murder would mean "group of crows" first and "unlawful killing of one human being by another human being" second because people would use "group of crows" in every day speech a lot more than the other type of murder.</em><br /><br />I'm not sure that follows. I think hyper-specific names for groups of things tend to get used less often. If I saw a group of crows, I <em>might</em> think to call it a murder, but more likely I would call it a flock. (Even if they don't <em>act</em> like a flock.)<br /><br /><em>All I did was search Google for New Jersey winter.</em><br /><br />I have never seen a New Jersey winter that looked like that, but to be fair, New Jersey isn't really one place so much as a bunch of little places, and for all I know some of them look like that in winter. Also, global warming.<br /><br /><em>Welcome to my brain.</em><br /><br />Nice place you've got here.Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034585577015417306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-15400424043678943312014-12-12T14:38:18.277-05:002014-12-12T14:38:18.277-05:00I like the way you riff off things.
Also, I hadn&...I like the way you riff off things.<br /><br />Also, I hadn't thought about how crows don't flock - interesting to see.Packbathttp://packbat.net/w/noreply@blogger.com