Hi all! Ez is out here on location, riding around Ithaca, filming his first movie - IthacaSucks Presents "Road Kill of Ithaca." It's very exciting --lights, cameras, cut! The extras ain't too lively but then again, we don't have to pay them either. Poor fellow. Rocky Raccoon, he ain't. Hey, lots of animals were injured in the making of this movie!
Well, to be precise, not during- but certainly before. It's not like we asked these poor critters to run out in front of our wheels? Right? After all, Ithacans love animals. Not the animals in the meat freezers at Wegmann's, but we sure love our pooches. The city closed that dog park out there by the Hangar and you'd think they closed the public library. The letters to the editor haven't stopped yet. But, we also love our cars. Volvos, expecially. But Toyotas, Hondas, SUV's, big Buck Rogers' futuristic cars that resemble 21st Century stagecoaches, or compact, jazzy cars that look like electric shavers on wheels. So, you might say that road kill is the intersection of ecology and technology here in Ithaca. That's our cameraman waiting for a squirrel who's crossing a telephone wire to make a mistep. It didn't happen on this particular day but we we sure saw a great variety of squirrels belly up with those little paws pointing towards Animal Valahala. Sometimes it's hard to identify the species. Unless you're a forensic zoologist. Yeah, they have those. Americans are really getting into dead things. All those autopsy shows on tv. We'd thought it would be a good idea to combine Wild Kingdom with CSI. Whatchathink?
Ithaca doesn't have a Roadkill Cafe like some American communities. But, then again, Ithaca doesn't have a vegan restaurant either. A lot of Gen Y so-called vegans do sit around their $800 faux squats and discuss the ethical problems involved in eating road kill for personal survival. Right! Like the Ithaca Bakery is going to lock their dumpsters and the soup kitchen is going to ban guests who wear metal studs and profess individual anarchism. Comments invited at: ezrakidder@gmail.com - Peace, Ezra at 12:46 PM
