endless forms most beautiful

i just spent a fun evening with jake+chris- 2 people i don't spend nearly enough time with anymore. we sat @ guapo's and had margaritas and chips and shit and it was good. and we decided that we should check out the chinese-restaurant-with-brazilian-strippers when aly-from-cali's in town in a few weeks.

in other local news, yesterday i saw the police arrest somebody by running him down with their car- i was coming down my street, about to cross florida ave. (yes, i live in the 'hood) when the police came screaming past me and turned right onto florida. next thing i know, they slam on the brakes, throw it in reverse and come back at an alarming speed. and just as i think to myself, "they gonna kill somebody, i better go around that shit", they hit some bicycle-riding dude with the ass end of their car in the middle of the intersection, sending his ass one way and his bike the 'nother. so now i'm thinking, "holy shit! they just killed bicycle-boy!" but instead, they hop out their car, skip over to his prostrate body, and slap handcuffs on him right quick, then drag him back to their car to slam him against it (apparently the only way to have one's rights read).
so it seems that now, instead of chasing criminals (assuming he was one), the bullies in blue can just run them over...

in local news today there was a small herd of buffalo on the loose just north of baltimore, that was eventually corralled on a tennis court after disrupting traffic and alarming petit-bourg homeowners- speaking of which, i learned @ the radio station this week that cows (and other hoofed animals) have toes...
i'm working on this "evo devo revolution" book (evolutionary developmental biology) and it's pretty fucking cool- they recently learned that the same genes differenciate form throughout the animal kingdom, which means that the same genes that give zebras their fuzzy stripes, give us our skin, and the same genes that give fruit flies 6legs and 4wings, give us 2arms and 2legs! more later, if i can figure out how to explain without being too big a geek. but if you're interested, the book's by a dude named sean b. carroll, and it's called "endless forms most beautiful: the new science of evo devo" (the first part of its title is a darwin quote, about what the process of evolution creates).
check it out.

walk good.
ps: diatribe on pathological liars coming soon, as well as the need to ban forever and destroy all currently remaining white pantyhose...