Thursday, December 12, 2013

A Little Bear News to Ease back into the Blog Game

The past 10 months in Bear News:
A black bear with troubled past was killed by wildlife officials in Nevada after repeatedly breaking and entering into homes and cars over the weekend.  While Nevada restricts the death penalty to capital offenses, aka murder, the game warden involved took up the role of judge, jury, and executioner by first tranquilizing and then killing the bear, for what is assumed the normal method of lethal injection for the state.  The bear was reportedly fearless of humans and was deemed beyond rehabilitation.  More concerning is the rise in super-bear burglaries, suck it Ocean's 11!


black bear in California was shot with tranquilizer darts after evading capture for several hours.  Authorities were after the bear after it was sighted in a tree outside a church, inciting a chase that eventually ended at the local golf course.   The bear is a repeat offender and has been relocated deep in the forest.  Clearly the bear was waiting for morning mass before making his way to his tee time, when he was shot.  The bear has not been charged with anything other than trying to play golf, but its clear the California policy of restricting bears from suburban areas will hurt their golf scores dramatically.

Not exactly news, but helpful bear narrative, suggest by JP...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Shhhhh! You'll wake the bears...

I'll call it a hibernation, the blog's been asleep for 10 months.  I don't know if anyone else is amused by how my last post left things off, but if there's gonna be a blog hiatus (unplanned btw, but if you missed me, then I guess I missed you too?), might as well play up the "end of the world" sign off of the December 2012 post, thanks that Mayan Calendar!  Now I'm sure the internet is very capable of keeping you all very busy and entertained without my additions.  And I'm sure it's been near-impossible to function having find your own bear news and go on living your life without whatever else gets posted here.  So after signing off in December 2012,  the bears are awaking.  It's time to crank up the blog machine, even though it's been a long time, and find out what the bears are up to.
Wake up you big bitch!
On the hiatus: If you didn't already know this, I created this blog as an outlet during the slow periods of my first "real" job, a place to be creative, "practice" writing, share whatever I felt like, and for the days that wouldn't move fast enough I could still say I accomplished something I'm proud of on some level.  And predictably, when I moved on from that position, the balance was shifted.  Sharing on the blog moved to the back burner and all of sudden its 10 months later and if you only read the blog, you'd have no clue what kind of adventures I've been on or what the bears are plotting on a given week!  Too busy, laziness, lack of good ideas... it just never happened.  No more putting off, the blog must come back.  So fair warning to friends, family, strangers, etc.... this blog machine's out of hibernation!