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August 9th, 2010 at 8:06 am ETOK, that’s funny!
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In which I confess my secret fear
August 6th, 2010 at 8:26 pm ET
Now it can be told: I’m afraid of deer. Not “run away and hide” afraid — but they make me nervous, and I’d rather not be alone in a field with any. I’ve been mocked for this even by children, but I defend it; deer have hard hooves and they can trip you by accident, and then step on your head in their rush to get away; and then where would you be?
Don’t tell me that I could snap the leg of a deer with a shove of my shoulder, or that deer are just as afraid of me as etc. etc.; those might both be true, but my fear is not of the typical case, but of that extraordinary episode when a deer’s desperate panic combines with my being in just the very place where the laws of physics put a hoof in my ear.
The reason all this can be told is that the Boon Companion found the video below, which vindicates all my fears and more, evidencing as it does not just panic but actual malice on the part of our cervid friends.
(Image at top courtesy of Brendan Gaffney, who like most people thinks my fear of deer is ridiculous, and sent it to me in an attempt to torment me, which failed. I’m not afraid of pictures of deer — what kind of namby-pamby do you think I am?!)
In which I utter a fashion pronouncement
August 6th, 2010 at 10:04 am ET23-year-old wearing your Greek Week T-shirt: Acceptable
33-year-old wearing your Greek Week T-shirt: Marginal
43-year-old wearing your Greek Week T-shirt: QUESTIONABLE VERGING ON PITIFUL. NOT ADVISED.
That is all.
In which Google is mean to me *snif*
August 1st, 2010 at 10:32 pm ET
Rich Mintz blogs on online fundraising and social media, American history and culture, bicycling and urbanism, food, technology, and other topics. Professionally, he's an expert in fundraising, constituency development, and social media for nonprofits, cultural organizations, cause-related marketers, and corporations. He is based in New York, where he serves as Vice President, Strategy, for 
