abominations

i learned today that there are giant rodents lurking in the Pacific Northwest, stalking Portland and chasing its residents to the (relative) safety of Southern Florida. it is called a nutria, and it is the most terrifying taxonomic encounter i've had since i once touched the dreaded agantha in Durham, North Carolina.

the year was 1994 and it was a different era, when the oracles of Franklin and 9th Streets foretold that Superchunk would take over the world. back then the only rodent in my life was Gopher, and it lived on the mysterious UNIX workstations in my high school's computer lab. but all this is besides the point.

the point is that today is the equinox, and it seems i've stumbled into some semblance of balance, finding the cadences between consonance and alliteration. i am appreciating the facility of fallacious reasoning, the allure of cunning linguistics, and the juvenile pursuit of double entendre.

because it's all in good pun.