I wake up screaming #7: How-to
It’s been nearly two years since the first I wake up screaming post appeared on this site. More recently, Jane’s urging me to form a Flickr group centered around the motif has yielded a lot of fun. It’s fascinating to watch others send their own contributions from their personal catalogues of horrors. Though the group is still in its infancy, the range of entries is already impressive, and there’s a lot to love in the group pool. However, in a very limited number of cases, there is also a certain genetic drift in the direction of the merely annoying or puzzling. Rather than going in with the heavy hand of a group administrator, I prefer just to post this little how-to for those unsure about how to approach the daunting task of photographing a worthwhile IWUS candidate:
Step 1:
See how easy that was?
Notes:
- The above tableau is in the foyer of a popular local restaurant
- My first apartment in Nova Gorica also featured entryway taxidermy: a snarling ferret immediately inside the door
- Squirrels are noted climbers and have never been known, in the wild, to rely on ropes or fixed anchors
- Likewise, their use of rucksacks for nut transportation is undocumented
- Taxidermy mounts are vulnerable to the same moths that eat sweaters, apparently
- ‘Can you mount this owl I found on the side of the road?’
