Daily Archives: April 20, 2013

Just in Case…

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As an effort to make us more accessible to the general public, the staff and I here at the World Headquarters of our Media Empire, have decided to provide our readers with a way to contact us regarding our postings or anything else that might be on your minds. So now whenever the mood strikes you, you can click on the mail link and send us those pithy comments, observations, critiques, recipes, complaints, marriage proposals, old un-deposited tax refund checks, letters of intent, letters of discontent, phone numbers, testimonials to pearls of wisdom gleaned from this site, and finally but not lastly, statements of undying gratitude for making you smile once in a while, if indeed that has happened. Don’t be ashamed, there’s nothing wrong if you’ve chuckled in the privacy of your own home, everybody does it. We don’t judge here.

So do it now, click on mail@BigShotsNow.com while this message appears on your screen because after all, we can’t do this all day. But wait ! Hold on a second, don’t click that link yet. As an extra special bonus available only to you our readers, you may receive at absolutely no extra cost a return email in response. That’s right people, this may turn into a two-way dialogue, with us actually talking to each other, so take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity and send us those thoughts and feelings and if you have them those un-deposited tax refund checks too. Talk to you soon.

Owls Gone Wild

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As you know doubt have heard, we have a long standing study being conducted by our head owlogist and sponsored  by the Owl Fund Forever here at The World Headquarters of our Media Empire. Through the years we have made many huuuge and invaluable observations of owl behavior, enough that several papers could be published in those fancy scientific journals that you hear about but can’t buy at the newsstand. However, since there was a small problem between our head owlogist and Vinnie and his friend Thug, our friends at Witsec have asked that we don’t use our experts name at this time. Be that at it may we can still share some of our findings with the general public. This study was focusing on the Great Horned Owl and it’s young and we were lucky enough to find this fine specimen at Yellowstone National Park, where so much of our important work has been carried out.

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We have determined that there is a certain amount of boredom that sets in due to the restrictive nature of the young’s immaturity and of course it’s inability to fly. Thus it has a lot of time to engineer disruptive moments in the parents life. After a certain amount of consideration a plan may be forming.

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Several possibilities have been considered and rejected.

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Our owlogist calls this the “Eureka Moment!” which is a scientific term for “Oh man, this is going to be good.”

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The plan, devilish in nature and one that only a young owl could conceive, is to sing the latest rap song at maximum volume.

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The desired result is achieved in a very short time. The adult expresses it’s displeasure and according to our expert on the scene, it was done so in no uncertain terms.

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Undeterred the young owl resorts to expressing it’s intention to continue developing new and unusual ways to interact with it’s parent. Our owlogist suggests that this posturing could be interpreted as the “I could bite you in the neck right now and you wouldn’t even know” behavior that is the universal expression of disdain in the young owls community. We here at the World Headquarters of our Media Empire, intend to keep this important work going for as long as it takes, and our funds hold out, to get this behavior not only documented, but interpreted in a manner that will explain this species behavior to the person on the street in a way that can be easily understood. No big words here, no talking down to, no expecting you to know Latin or some other dead stupid language.  As our friend Joe Friday used to say “just the facts ma’am” and that ‘s what provided here at The World Headquarters of our Media Empire, and of course , as always, free of charge.