PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

THE PEACHFRONT CONURE FILES
MY KENYA DIARY: IN QUEST OF EAGLES
MADAGASCAR DIARY: SERPENT-EAGLES, GOSHAWKS, AND MORE
TROPICAL STORM BILL CRUSHES OUR HOUSE LIKE A BUG PHOTOS
Hurricane Katrina Disaster Recovery and Photos
A Very Partial Index to the Entries
BIRDS***BIRDING***WILDLIFE GARDENING
SF/BOOKWORM***NUCLEAR/SPACE
POKER *** BLACKJACK*** TRAVEL
a donation is never required to read my site, but any you care to give will go to the bird food fund

photo copyright © 1987 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved

100 things about me

Read this before you email me for the first time. Personal mail only. No spam. No mean people. If you can't say something nice, I'm not interested.

Recent entries
some death-defying species from madagascar, my death defied and her extinction defied, yeah both in one trip - 2009-08-11
the borg - 2009-08-10
appearing soon in your hometown - 2009-08-10
tweet - 2009-08-09
don't be talking about me in front of my face, yall - 2009-08-06

By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.

A bibliography of my published books and stories.

Here's my card-counting FAQ.

Visit my original website but I recommend putting pop-up/banner blockers on first.

A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the localroger diary.

Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco.

portrait of timmy

2003-07-29 - 9:09 a.m.

© 2003 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved
Timmy wasn't tickled to have his picture taken, but I got this slightly soft-focus snapshot. He doesn't seem to be nervous and neurotic any more. Now he's just grumpy. I'm surprised that he is settling in so well to the small temporary cage after having been in a huge flight for so many years.
Click here to return to the Peachfront Conure files.
later
My hero! BF went to meet with the insurance adjuster and broke out the old charm. He just called and reported that he got her to agree not to total my car after all. Yay! I am so relieved.
Moral of the story: Don't let anyone from an insurance company tow off your car until you get all the facts. Once you've released the car, it's all over.
later
Warning: It might be best to read no further if you are a Republican and don't want to know how I feel about the GOP attitude toward disaster victims.
The city of Mandeville is up in arms because its brand new pier was destroyed, and it won't receive any federal disaster aid, since the thieves in power have refused to recognize that Tropical Storm Bill was a huge disaster. Commenting on FEMA's denial, City Council President Denis Bechac said to the Times-Picayune on July 26: "That is strange, when it appears that total property damage in Mandeville will exceed that of both Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane Lili that both struck the city last year." (The city received $100,000 in aid as a result of those two storms.)
I don't know what is so strange about it. We all have to pay for the millionaires to get a tax break. But maybe it will wake up these deluded Republican fools in the Great White North to the fact that the national GOP does not give a flying you-know-what about the city of Mandeville and St. Tammany Parish. Wake up, guys, you were used, and now our Republican governor can't even get the man you call President on the telephone.

back - next

All Rights Reserved, Copyright © 2002-200- by Elaine Radford