Pittsburgh Parrot Rescue

The Pittsburgh Parrot Rescue is the charity auction beneficiary for AnthroCon 2K8. Their mission: "Pittsburgh Parrot Rescue is a non-profit, volunteer organization focusing on educating the public on the specialized care that pet birds require. PPR accepts unwanted pet birds and adopts them to qualified applicants. PPR accepts found, abandoned, neglected and abused pet birds and rehabilitates them before offering them for adoption." read more »

First the skunk. Then the bigger stink.

By the time authorities finally cornered the offender under a porch, it was too late.

He had done enough damage that Vicki and Mark Royal and their four kids were forced to flee their house and move to a neighboring suburb as men in protective suits stripped the building to its studs and threw out most of their belongings.

When the family saw the skunk that started this ruinous chain of events, they were struck by one thing: "It was actually very cute," Vicki Royal said.

The situation remains dire nonetheless. A year into the ordeal, the Royals' 5-bedroom, 6.5-bath house on Sherid read more »

Spice & Wolf - An Overall Review

"This anime is situated in the past, if my intuition and powers of observation don’t deceive me, I’d say it’s sometime between the end of the dark age and the Renaissance, around 1553 a.C.. . .or if you prefer, it’s in a place where there’s still a long way towards the industrial era. Anyway. . . the story revolves around Lawrence, a normal merchant who does his monthly routine selling wheat and furs to the nearby towns part of a supposed central Europe.

One day he finds a girl with a fox tail and ears, this one claiming to be Horo the Wise, the Deity of wheat, and that she needs to get to the Northern mountains 12+ episodes away from where they are now. Without putting too much resistance, Lawrence accepts. Now we will experience the ups and downs of being a merchant who has a Kitsune-mimi girl sticking around. . .

By the way, Horo is, from this moment until I see something better, the best Tsundere I’ve ever experienced in an anime. Kudos for that!"

Investigation: CaliFur: (Don't Go To) California

I sent a quick email to the staff of Califur in regards to the finer points that the Vivsector article entitled "CaliFur: (Don't Go To) California" and here's what I got in reply from one Tank Winters:

Point 1: The black curtain put up by the Hyatt. Was the staff or convention attendees made aware of this? Has this issue been brought up with the hotel? Will you be using a different hotel in the future?

"The wedding that was on site that weekend was not only reserved for the hotel first, but also was paying more for their function space than we did for all of ours. The hotel didn't read more »

Squirrel Knocks Out LAX Air Conditioners

The air-conditioning problem stemmed from a "10-second outage caused by a squirrel on one of our commercial lines that feeds the airport," Joe Ramallo of the Department of Water and Power said.

The squirrel's condition was not immediately available. read more »

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