Clare Snow > Recent Status Updates

I've known emus are as dumb as chickens, since that time I was walking the dingoes, and the emu ran towards us, not to scare us away but because Mr Emu was scared and meant to run away from us. (Don't worry, dingoes were leashed.)

It's because emus are ratites and split off from the Neoaves clade: all modern birds except Palaeognathae (ratites) and Galloanserae (chickens, turkeys, other brainless birds)

That's a twist and a half

It turns out WA's chuditch once lived across Australia and would have had many names, not just the Noongar one

I too had the Australian Museum's Complete Book of Australian Mammals as a kid. Sadly, I still do!? So I looked up our little chuditch chowing down on a pesky parrot. I've always loved WA's chuditch, but only seen them at the zoo

"The true nature of reality is hidden from us and just out of view."

"As I saw it, my job as a reader, and as his friend, was to try to help save him from himself."

Omfg Dave! you are not funny (at all) but quite self-aware

I'm sorry Miller, but the novelist is the only one responsible for the views of their characters. I've read Disgrace and liked it, with no recollection of anything about it.

"Often I'd find myself wishing he'd just go away. But he never did, not entirely."

"My reflexive response to seeing him, it turned out, was not to go toward him but to turn away."

'Why does this taste so good?'
'I soaked it in maple syrup. It covers the taste of the arsenic.'

"Now every president is going to have to have a perfect moral record."

Oh Dave Eggers, you really are hilarious

"People are ghosts until you actually have to start taking them seriously."

"Eventually - it would take a long time, but I would get there - I would begin to understand that in adult life, in the adult world, one had to learn to control not only the expression of anger but also the emotion itself."

"all of them gone now, gone where goblins go."

"You create the theatre that undoes you."

"David had a type? From what I now understood about him, his only 'type' seemed to be female and, sorry to say, without power."

I really want to remove that 'sorry to say.' Never apologize for stating the truth

"If you did not know the swirling haunted-house aspect of David, you did not know David."

The David who used his mental illness as an excuse for everything and anything

"No, Zuckerberg wasn't an asshole. He was worse. He was one of the most carelessly dangerous men in the history of technology who didn't even know it. Unfortunately, he wasn't the worst of them."

Always a good idea not to school a Jewish person who wants to wax lyrical about Holocaust denial.

Swisher: "I decided to keep quiet for once and watch this spin out of control. That did not take long."

Swisher is a gold star journalist ⭐️

"Speaking of fucked, I am sorry to say: We are."

I'm sorry Zuckerberg, but there was more to the world than the Roman fucking Empire, even 2000 yrs ago

I did not know Mark Zuckerberg's business card said "I'm CEO - bitch."

I wish I still did not know

George Lucas to Chad Hurley, the Youtube guy: "You're ruining storytelling with your service. What you do is like throwing puppies on a freeway."

And hold your breath Anne, otherwise you'll get pregnant

"This was a snake putting a spell on a mouse."

Fuck that Miller.

While that week in NYC happened, I was in a drug fueled toxic relationship. Fuck that too. I really shouldn't be critiquing someone whose life played out a lot more functioningly than mine. [And she uses actual words...]

"It seemed very important to keep your idols distinct from your actual people."

Miller is my idol

"He certainly had never been made to feel so powerless and inferior, not in such a tawdry - let's be real: sexist - way. He'd never been made to feel as if his only identity in the world were as a leech, a parasite. No, worse than that: a silly little ephemeron trifler, a life lived only in relationship to another person. I couldn't have expected him to understand."

That's because it always is your fault, David

If only Adrienne ran from the flashing red flags 🚩🚩🚩 Think of the sunshine & flowers, Adri