Big Sit! on NPR
Our tower in full glory, crowned with Big Sitters, Phoebe playing in the yard. Photo by James R. Hill IIIIf you listen to National Public Radio's afternoon news show All Things Considered this very afternoon, October 3, you may hear my voice, yakking about The Big Sit, Birding's Most Sedentary Event. It's happening this Sunday, October 8. All things in national media are fluid, and it may get bumped, but right now it's up for consideration. The commentary also includes vultures and a rotten chicken. Now are you intrigued?
posted by Julie Zickefoose @ 12:54 PM
29 comments
29 Comments:
great bit! You took care of the vultures, but the question is...Did BOTB survive without the cheese puffs? I'm not sure that would go over with my better half!
I am awaiting the audio, which will be up at 7:30 pm according to NPR's website.
I wish I knew ahead of time when you would be on NPR...it would be "appointment radio" for me!
Swamette and I just listened to your NPR commentary. It brings back fond[?!?] memories of the roast Swamette left in her car trunk about 20 years ago.
The car had to be professionally fumigated. I believe the smell is almost gone from our garage.
Please tell your producer at NPR to provide your blog readers with at least 24 hour notice of your commentaries. Otherwise The Swami may have to put an entry in your personnel file.
Oops, Swami has to run. I'm late for my appointment at The Turban Rewind Shop.
Dear Swami,
I owe you the explanation that the warning I got about today's NPR commentary (about three hours in advance) is the most I have ever gotten. Often I have but minutes. I can add you to my NPR Alert list if you would like--I send an email to friends and family as soon as I hear something will air. Thank you for your forbearance, and I hope they wind your turban a little less tightly this time. Enjoy your carcasses, we do!
Rather have chicken stew than cheeze puffs any day. Ummmm...cheeze puffs on the side would be a bonus, though. Just heard your voice minutes ago off the website. Funny story. Keep 'em comin!
Mary
I had to LAUGH out LOUD.
Something sort of like that happened to our neighbor. His driveway is very long, so he takes the garbage to the curb in his car. Well, he was running late one day, and forgot about the garbage. When Garbage Day came around again....well, you can imagine the rest.
Aren't vultures awesome? They smelled that yummy rotten chicken through a car and a garage...Nature's Garbage Men!
I wonder if I used some spoiled chicken juice behind my ears, Earl would like me more?
When I heard your piece on All Things Considered I was struck by the hipocricy of your commentary. Birdwatching is about identifying and enjoying a wide variety of birds in their natural habitat. However, you plan to serve a "healthy" dish which incudes chicken. A bird which most likely never saw a second of freedom in its life and died a gruesome death. So while you are out in the back yard this year, don't forget to add toutured dead chicken to your list!
Hey, Think for a Minute:
Maybe going back through a few of Julie's posts, you will see some of her thoughts on what you are speaking of.
And while you are slamming someone on her blog, Spell Check might be a handy tool for you.
It's spelled "hypocrisy". And you define that word, now don't you?
I have met Julie and I love her and all that she feels and stands for. And hey, it's a free country and you are entitled to an opinion. But when you come onto this blog and mess with Julie, be prepared to get it right back at ya.
Love ya, Julie!
Great story on NPR today! my husbands friend stored a cooked chicken in our rv oven, (they were at the races) we found it on a very hot day weeks later when the smell drifted over the property from the garage. It was awful, it took about 30 minutes to find it. I have never smelled anything as foul as that chicken LOL!!
Good luck on your big sit!
Dawn
I suppose giving Think for Half-a Second a peace offering of a KFC gift certificate isn't a good idea.
I'm still looking for the recipe for "toutured chicken."
The closest I could get was Chicken in a Tutu.
Actually, I plan to torture and kill four butternut squashes for my soup this year. Anyone object?
Hey susan gets native, I guess pointing out a misspelling refutes my whole point. Oh wait, it doesn’t. I’m sure Julie is a wonderful person but bird watching while eating a dead bird, in my opinion is an act of falseness (one of the definitions of hypocrisy). I felt the need to call to her attention her obvious failure to consider all things on a segment called All Things Considered.
Hey Julie , making jokes because you have no better retort is kind of sad.
Morning
I couldn't find the Big Sit at the NPR web site. Gotta link?
Mr. Ric,
Here is the link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6189901
Julie might be busy overpowering a squash.
For all commentaries, try this one:
http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=julie+zickefoose
think for a minute takes me back to my early twenties. I remember thinking, "Wow, I watch birds how on Earth can I eat chicken, and while I'm at it why should I be eating cows, pigs, deer, bison, etc?" I cut out meat (and it was tough, I really, really missed bacon).
Cut to two years later when I started working with the educational birds at The Raptor Center. One of my duties was to prep food for the birds: rats, mice, day old chicks, quail, chickens, ducks--and rabbits (commenters here who read my blog, know what a shock that would be for me). After I have gutted the food, I then have to feed it to the raptors, up to and including having a peregrine falcon sitting on the fist and feeding them quail pieces.
One day I snapped, I was feeding a peregrine a rat and she went for the darkest, reddest bits of rat first. After each bite she would make a kind of snapping sound with her bill as if salivating over how tasty it was. I couldn't take it, I wanted meat so badly, and darn it if birds could eat meat, why can't I--I'm an omnivore for cryin' out loud.
I'm not saying that there aren't changes that can't be made to our meat production practices, but have you ever watched an accipiter kill and feed? A Cooper's hawk doesn't have the strong feed a red-tail does and prey is often still very alive when a Coops begins to feed. It's an awful death to watch but that's how they do it and eat their prey--other birds. Uh-oh, is think it over going to take birds to task for eating other birds?
Dear Think for a minute. I looked up your link to Compassion over Killing (COK). It's funny because I remember the Washington Post doing a profile on Paul Shapiro the founder of COK, in 2003 and realized he was a neighbor in Takoma Park that I passed walking our dogs. It's funny because after reading that article, I thought, what a nice guy and what a great idea, getting more people to eat less meat rather than trying to get a few people to be vegans. He also stresses "nonconfrontational" methods as a way to NOT turn people off. You are certainly not portraying COK in a good light with your open hostility towards Julie and others and jumping to conclusions that her meat is factory raised. I understand your frustration, but I learned long ago that you cannot browbeat or shame people into thinking what you believe is the correct way to live.
Christine
Takoma Park, MD
Julie,
Loved the story. I can't wait to hear about the results of the sit this year. Is chicken on the menu this year or are you back to cheese puffs and caffeine?
I have to agree with BOTB. I never have a big day without my mountain dew and some cheesy, salty snack.
Bravo to Christine in Takoma Park. Well said.
Mary in NC
Dear Think for a Minute,
Remember, as you continue to hammer your point,that you are in my virtual living room surrounded by my friends. You're more than welcome to avoid meat in your diet. You can read vegan blogs, if vegan blogs there be. You are welcome to start your own blog, where you may air your views. But when you sit in my virtual living room and use my blog to air your views, you are overstepping your welcome. I have a delete function, and I use it when people overstep their welcome. Thanks for letting us know where you stand. This has been fun, but there's a point at which it becomes a drag. And to the thousands of readers who understand who I am and what I am all about, this blog is anything but a drag.
Well said Julie. [Why does that make me think of "Right Said Fred"]
Perhaps because The Swamette is "So Sexy"
The Swami must stop now to eat his lunch; I'm ravenous, and carnivorous.
Uh-oh... torturing squashes? The Vegetable Rights people are going to come knocking on your door.
Birdchick scared me with her comment. For a minute I though there was going to be a tale of how she wrestled the rat away from the peregrin.
Hey Maureen,
If I've learned anything in this life, it's never take food away from a hungry raptor.
Think for a Minute:
Sigh. You missed the point and I am too tired of this to continue.
Julie:
How do you do it? A funny story about turkey vultures turns into all of us OMNIVORES having to defend our choices?
Reminds me of the time that "What's his name" called Chet Baker a rat with a huge head.
How many comments did that end up getting? 24?
Birdchick:
My pet rats come up in my mind while we are freeze packing all the critters for the month...I can only imagine how many times Cinnamon came into yours.
Okay, Julie! Enough...we need Chet pics and we need them now!
The most natural thing in the world for someone such as Julie who has studied nature, and made nature the focus of her life, is to be an omnivore. One fundamental that all life shares is that life feeds on life. Life is not possible without this. Anyone who tries to appreciate the incredibly intricate web of interdependencies of nature - the real definition of ecology - either understands this or lives with their head stuck down a hole.
On a lighter note, two bumper stickers intended to amuse, not offend:
Vegetables are not food.
Vegetables are what food eats.
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants!
As always....this commentators are a light note to a day spent with extemely ill folks in ICU.
Thanks to Julie!
We all should be grateful we can comment/enjoy/read/watch/run/walk/
get up and pee,and....yes, even eat something that is not delivered through a tube.
Please be grateful for chicken on the barbie!
I have also met Julie. I don't believe you could find a more intelligent, gentle, unassuming, talented person...and "think for a minute" is not even close. How dare anyone use Julie's blog to insult her and then promote their self-centered ideals in such a CONFRONTATIONAL way. Julie is quite correct when she says this is HER LIVING ROOM; as such, politically-charged discussions such as that one have no room here. Bravo, Julie, for dealing with this with tact and humor. I thought the squash joke was quite funny!
I'm a vegetarian, and I think that Think for a Moment needs to lighten up. It's like getting preached to on the street by one of those Radical Right people--I don't mind a gentle reminder from my very religious sister that God is up above, but save the sermons for the pulpit. Same goes for Think for a Minute--sure, I think eating meat is gross and bad, but come on; people are entitled to do what they please. Turn it around on yourself, Think. Would you want a lecture like that given to you?
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