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more about #biography Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: If I ever have a lot of time on my hands and want to get nerdy about it, I would totally do this. Sometimes I'll go out to watch bald eagles when they... more » Piranha426: I'd like to volunteer to start a Bay Area Jezzie bird-watching club. This will be AWESOME!!! Think about it. We can head out to Point Reyes, try to di... more » Aesop's Foibles. YES.: I like birds. I have some bird statues and some cool bird prints I bought on Etsy in my dressing room at home. My favorites are the tiny ones you hear... more » mahada: I *watch* my pet birds. Mostly to make sure they don't do anything stupid. But that is the extent of it. more » Tippi Hedren: I wouldn't call myself a birder by any means, but I effing LOVE crows. Whenever I see one hopping around on the ground, I crack up like a crazy person... more » LaMorena: I am a terrible bird-watcher. I can never find them in time with my binoculars. One of my more frustrating moments was trying to translate (accented e... more » pear.shaped.Sara: We have a resident bird watcher in my office (her parents were ornithologists). She keeps binoculars in her office to spot birds that make appearance... more » LaComtesse: Whenever we go to the park, Mr. is always upset he forgot his binoculars. His step-father is an avid birder and Mr. dabbles in it from time to time. T... more » morninggloria: There's a wetlands preservation area near where I grew up, and once I saw a whooping crane. That's the coolest bird I've ever seen. Them shits are tall. more » hello.kitty: Hmmm, maybe I should give this a try. more » victorinemeurent: As dorky as this is to admit, Mr. Meurent and I are avid bird-watchers (and whale-watchers, in fact). It's actually gone a long way to help our relati... more » hortense: Is it an autobiography? The cover makes it look that way. more » Rare Affinity: I heard a recording of the last Eunuch at the PAPAL court. He died in 1922. For hundreds of years the Catholic Church had no qualms of having countles... more » ritualtheory: China, I have got my OWN castration secrets, thank you. The belief that castrati were unambitious and therefore unthreatening to the regency existed f... more » morninggloria: If I had a penis, I would be clutching it protectively. more » saintbernadette: This makes that blood-on-the-sheets thing sound not so bad, after all. more » fulanita: Wait...the genitals are completely removed? I always thought eunuchs were castrated sort of how cats were neutered. Can anyone clarify? more » kelsium: Yeah, you don't make this decision at 8. If we were talking about FGM and this were an 8 year old girl no one in the world would be agreeing that she ... more » JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: Sun Yaoting chose to become a eunuch at 8, inspired by a prosperous neighbor and determined to reclaim his family's land from an unscrupulous landlord... more » badmutha: It all sounds really horrible. He seemed to have a great deal of integrity though. more » -
#birdbybird
Crane-Spotting
A new biography tells the story of Phoebe Snetsinger, an unfulfilled housewife who, after her terminal cancer diagnosis, turned to bird-watching with obsessive fervor. She lived another 18 years, dying in a car accident. [NPR] -
#thelastemperor
"China's Last Eunuch" Less Salacious, More Interesting Than Headline Implies
We love this Reuters headline: "China's last eunuch spills sex, castration secrets." Well, among other things. More » -
#capitalgains
New Deals: "The Most Powerful Woman In Washington" Had It Rough
What does it say that the woman most active to U.S. policy-making was in the Roosevelt administration? More »
