Some Thoughts on Badgers

I hate to poke holes in your “moly” hypothesis, but if things played out as you describe in your last post that would make Moly “hole-y” and not “holy.” We may be splitting hairs here but I think its out.

I agree with you on the issue of plot (or perhaps more accurately, lack thereof). I am willing to make a lot of allowances for a book when it includes charming talking animals (who needs a plot when you’re caught in whimsy of a poetry spouting elephant or a wallaby with aspirations of being a stand-up comic*), but quite frankly our riverbank friends need to either get a lot more charming fast or something needs to happen.

I would be equally happy with either.

I was just about to pick up The Wind in the Willows tonight, and begin my new acquaintance with Mr. Badger, but then it struck me that tomorrow night I will be in the great state of Wisconsin (in Madison, no less), and where better to be introduced Mr. Badger than in ol’ Mad-town, home of perhaps the world’s most famous badger, Bucky. So, I will rejoin the world of the riverbank then.

Now a note that has nothing to do with the wind in or out of the willows: I saw Wall-E last weekend, and I’ve been meaning to highly recommend it (pardon my split infinitive) since I saw it. Even if Wall-E does look disarmingly like Johnny-5 from Short Circuit and, perhaps more famously, from Short Circuit 2, if you can get past that it’s one very good movie. Also, the Pixar short that runs before it is very entertaining.

Okay, enough on topics that do not relate to talking (thinking, feeling) wildlife animals.

Justin

*Neither of which appear in The Wind in the Willows, but they might spice things up a bit before they sadly die because they have been dropped in the middle of an incompatible climate without a reliable food source–yeah, maybe it’s a good idea they aren’t in the book after all.