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What I'm Noodling:
In No Particular Order:
--I got this new lemon toothpaste. It's gross and tastes like I should be polishing furniture with it.
--I could live to be 200 years old and still not understand Eraserhead.
--Yule is coming soon and I have a ton of baking to do. This year, 2 cookies, 2 breads, and 2 kinds of granola.
--Night of the Living Dead is the best horror movie ever made in America.
--Cashews are the most expensive nut.
--I wrote 2K today. I needed to after scraping my previous ending to Kitten Claws.
--Tod Browning is an utter genius.
--I'm going to start submitting short stories to get published. I'm sick of not being published.
--A total stranger complimented my ring today.
And Now, Here's the Friday Five:
1. If you could, would you be a movie star or a rock star? Which one, and why?
Probably a movie star since I don't play an instrument. I do have a good voice though.
2. Have you ever been in the media (TV, radio, papers)?
Yes, I've written for radio and print, and have done lots of radio, I've been on TV a few times (regular and smallish cable), oddly, I don't think my pic has ever been run in the paper. It will be soon though, because I'm doing engagement announcements.
3. Do you know anyone who's been on a reality TV show?
Yes. I went to high school with Andre from the first The Real World.
4. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Yes. Davy Jones, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, Gil Hill, Timo Kurvi, Lloyd Kaufmann, Evan Dorkin, I think that's it.
5. Who would play you in a movie?
Camryn Manheim or Kathy Bates. Or me.
and last but not least,
'Zombie Chickens' Causing Debate Over Fate of Older Chickens in California
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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PETALUMA, Calif. — In this rich agricultural region of Northern California, ranchers have been turning chickens too old to lay eggs into compost at a rate of a half-million hens a year.
But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name "zombie chickens" — and hatching a debate over what else might be done with them and other "spent hens."
A food bank proposed making sausage to feed the poor. A reptile enthusiast suggested using them as food for large exotic pets like pythons and alligators. And an industry group said in the future they could be used as fuel for power plants.
But for now, according to egg farmers in Sonoma County, composting is the only affordable option. The last California rendering plant stopped taking the hens in May.
"If there was something that could be done, it would be done," said Petaluma egg farmer Arnie Reibli.
The egg-laying birds have only a pound of usable meat, compared to the 5-pound chickens typically raised for eating. Slaughtering the chickens, even to transport them unprocessed and frozen whole, would likely cost more than composting them, Reibli said.
"Unfortunately, it's less expensive to go out and buy the birds than process them," said David Goodman, executive director of the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, which had considered the sausage-making plan.
To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Afterward, the hens are layered in mounds of sawdust.
A new European technology that turns dead cows into fuel to generate electricity — and that could be the fate of spent hens someday, said Rich Matteis, head of the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association.
But "that's not something that's going to be available anytime soon," he said.
That's right, I said Zombie Chickens!!!
--I got this new lemon toothpaste. It's gross and tastes like I should be polishing furniture with it.
--I could live to be 200 years old and still not understand Eraserhead.
--Yule is coming soon and I have a ton of baking to do. This year, 2 cookies, 2 breads, and 2 kinds of granola.
--Night of the Living Dead is the best horror movie ever made in America.
--Cashews are the most expensive nut.
--I wrote 2K today. I needed to after scraping my previous ending to Kitten Claws.
--Tod Browning is an utter genius.
--I'm going to start submitting short stories to get published. I'm sick of not being published.
--A total stranger complimented my ring today.
And Now, Here's the Friday Five:
1. If you could, would you be a movie star or a rock star? Which one, and why?
Probably a movie star since I don't play an instrument. I do have a good voice though.
2. Have you ever been in the media (TV, radio, papers)?
Yes, I've written for radio and print, and have done lots of radio, I've been on TV a few times (regular and smallish cable), oddly, I don't think my pic has ever been run in the paper. It will be soon though, because I'm doing engagement announcements.
3. Do you know anyone who's been on a reality TV show?
Yes. I went to high school with Andre from the first The Real World.
4. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Yes. Davy Jones, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, Gil Hill, Timo Kurvi, Lloyd Kaufmann, Evan Dorkin, I think that's it.
5. Who would play you in a movie?
Camryn Manheim or Kathy Bates. Or me.
and last but not least,
'Zombie Chickens' Causing Debate Over Fate of Older Chickens in California
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
E-MAIL STORY
PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
PETALUMA, Calif. — In this rich agricultural region of Northern California, ranchers have been turning chickens too old to lay eggs into compost at a rate of a half-million hens a year.
But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name "zombie chickens" — and hatching a debate over what else might be done with them and other "spent hens."
A food bank proposed making sausage to feed the poor. A reptile enthusiast suggested using them as food for large exotic pets like pythons and alligators. And an industry group said in the future they could be used as fuel for power plants.
But for now, according to egg farmers in Sonoma County, composting is the only affordable option. The last California rendering plant stopped taking the hens in May.
"If there was something that could be done, it would be done," said Petaluma egg farmer Arnie Reibli.
The egg-laying birds have only a pound of usable meat, compared to the 5-pound chickens typically raised for eating. Slaughtering the chickens, even to transport them unprocessed and frozen whole, would likely cost more than composting them, Reibli said.
"Unfortunately, it's less expensive to go out and buy the birds than process them," said David Goodman, executive director of the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, which had considered the sausage-making plan.
To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Afterward, the hens are layered in mounds of sawdust.
A new European technology that turns dead cows into fuel to generate electricity — and that could be the fate of spent hens someday, said Rich Matteis, head of the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association.
But "that's not something that's going to be available anytime soon," he said.
That's right, I said Zombie Chickens!!!