This thing.

This thing. When I was a kid I would get the plastic dinosaurs.
The set made it seem like woolly mammoths and T rex lived together; I knew better.
My favorite was this Dimetrodon.

The funny thing is that they are closer related to us than they are to dinosaurs.

They are as ancient to dinos as dinos are to us.

Synapsids like Dimetrodon had a nose like a dog, legs under the body, differentiated teeth like us, and that hole in the side of the skull like we have.

A branch of synapsids evolved into Therapsids and eventually those critters shrank down into the little proto-mammals running around under TRex's feet.

These are just some of hundreds of missing links found since I was a kid.

Humans are Synapsids but the Dimetrodon were doing it way before it was cool (well, before several ice ages anyway). Our head holes (temporal fenestra),eventually closed to protect our brain. We no longer have the trait that classifies us taxonomically as synapsid.

romantic walks in the cold

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Olive learned a lesson recently.

She took our 11 y.o.shopping at a grocery store with a sushi restaurant attached.
The boy hadn't eaten so she sat him down in front of the sushi conveyor belt and said "Have a few plates while I shop and we will go home and make proper dinner."
Well by the time she got back, he had a stack of 10 plates and more than a $20 bill.
I always think Olive punishes with pranks (like I do) so I asked. "Did you make him eat a final wasabi one?"
No Olive read him the riot act and then both of them learned how to make sushi at home.
Lesson: You can't trust pre-pubescents with a sushi train any more than you can trust them with a tambourine.

Rolling with my lady,

As clowns we get contacted to do a variety of mischief and or prank related operations.

As clowns we get contacted to do a variety of mischief and or prank related operations. 

These go down far from the stage . We pie the boss at the company party, fill cubicles with balloons, take over positions we aren't trained for,or even help return dog poop to it's rightful owner (4 houses away) via our pneumatic canon. If you need clowns to help you win an marital argument, quit a job, Any occasion needing a fake fight/seizures or any other so called " funny business" scenario, give us a ring. We work for culture and gold (in that order so we never use our powers to actually burn people). I'm eager to shoot more poop.
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backstage with olive and Dingo

The other day Olive brought home some chocolate sour dough bread from a Russian market.

I decided to try it today betwixt gigs.













Here I'm saturating it with cauterized chicken menses. Chocolate, Russian, French toast.


Scrumptious.