Monday, June 06, 2005

Birds Do It

I changed my mind. I don't hate parades per se (but I do hate when I say per se). I had a fun time at Gay Pride yesterday. It was a lot more mellow than last year and the kids along the route got a big kick out of the 1951 fire truck. The adults got a big kick out of our chants (like: "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, safer sex is the way to go!"). I skidattled on out of there and headed off to Monterey for fun in the sun (hey, that is the name of the color I painted my room this weekend!). It was sunny but incredibly windy. See how Dokey is all bundled up? See how my Mom has to squint and our hair is dishevelled? Poor Double B was all tuckered out from a nasty cold so he got in a nap. My mom's dog Oliver is a massive Golden Retriever puppy (almost one year). He used to look like this. And me? Well, I am full on freckle face after all that fun in the sun.

As the fam was sitting around, I brought up the fact that I had never given any thought to how birds procreate before yesterday when JB and Supple and I were soaking up some sun in the backyard. As we were sitting there, we witnessed a little mating ritual among the pigeons on the electrical wires. I am a bitdisconcerted to admit it but, I had no idea that a) birds had penises (really, they do?!) or b) that they did it from behind. I guess I had never thought of it. My mind is clearly over-run with many other more important topics. And clearly, I didn't pay much attention to this subject in school. While discussing this with my family, our conversation went something like this:

Double B: "Eagles mate in the air and sometimes if they don't finish in time, they crash into land and die."
Me: "That is some strange kind of bird-like auto-erotic asphyxiation."
My mother: "No wonder the eagle population is so endangered."

This explains a lot about my beloved family. I am always laughing with them. Speaking of family, check out the Tomato and his latest installment from Flab to Fab.

3 comments:

B Merrick said...

I miss those silly Sunday afternoon conversations!

Thanks for the plug!

xox

Anonymous said...

short story: we had this hand-tamed cockatiel "Frank" and when he was two we decided to bring home a mate for him. As soon as she "Mia" came into the house, he wasn't hand-tamed any more. He would attack me if I stood between him and her cage, and so finally, we let him have her and he went completely feral. Funny thing was, he'd try to get busy with her, but could never quite get his balance. It creeped me out, walking past the cage and seeing him thrusting away, at completely the wrong angle...in short: bird sex freaks me out and we sent them to a nice aviary last Summer so he could awkwardly rub up against his woman in peace.

- jules

Anonymous said...

oh, and love the irish freckles.

- j.