This Friday the 13th, we’re bringing you a carnivorous rodent known as a “werewolf mouse” for its fierce predatory ways and tendency to “howl.” Grasshopper mice are desert dwellers whose prey includes snakes, scorpions, centipedes, and even other mice! The pint-sized hunters are fearless in the face of one of the desert’s most dangerous stings: the bark scorpion’s. It turns out that in grasshopper mice, the scorpion’s venom acts to block pain instead of inflaming it. And why all the howling? These high-pitched vocalizations are used to share information with other grasshopper mice.
my mama got home today and she was so excited. she said she got me a present, so then i was excited too. i had no idea what she got me. she said ‘close your eyes and put your hands out’, so i did. and then i felt her put something in my hands. i opened my eyes and
“i saw it and it was chubby and you called a frog ‘big boy’ last night and i had to get it! it’s big boy!”
“a woman in love with another woman is revolution’s revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love.”
