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Friday, January 02, 2004 |
Possum Rage
A couple days ago, The New York Times ran a story about Brasstown, N.C., which celebrates New Year's Eve with a possum drop. No blood sacrifice involved: just the lowering of a marsupial from a gas-station roof in a Plexiglas box; after said event, the marsupial is set free to resume its life of dodging cars. But People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals saw this as an exercise in cruelty, called the organizer and threatened to sue. The designated New Year's possum was set free, and an unlively substitute starred instead. Not all is lost, though: While you ponder whether there really is any way to interact ethically with a possum, you can shop for possum drop merchandise.
9:41:05 AM 
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Bill Hogan obituaries
Both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times ran obituaries on my Uncle Bill Hogan this morning -- the Trib's here and the Sun-Times's here. The paper versions of the stories were supposed to include pictures that my sister Ann (and her family) ran down to the paper's on New Year's afternoon. The Trib's version of the story uses some of the paper's old clips, notably Jack Star's magazine profile of Bill from 1973. The Sun-Times version follows the obit material I sent pretty closely.
So now I only hope that no one in Bill's wide circle of acquaintance gets bent out of shape because their viewpoint wasn't represented.
9:18:08 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Dan Brekke.
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