Another "Separated at Birth?"

Well, it was time for another deep bout of Nostalgia. Just a week after watching the new Batman movie, I finally had the opportunity to sit back and start watching Manimal. Yeah. See when Manimal came on I was in the Band in high school. And we had games on Friday nights. So while the rest of America missed Manimal by choice, I missed it because we didn't have a VCR back then. (Not that my mother would have let me record it if we had...)

So I get about as far as the credits on the first episode when I see This Guy:

http://simon.helenheart.com/images/hello95_susan_simon-01.jpg
That's Simon MacCorkindale and his wife actress Susan George.


And I got really confused because Manimal stalked the airwaves back in 1983, and yet the host of the show looked so much like Harvey Dent that I had to do some research. Yeah. They favor.

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/shared/contentbinaries/publish/2770455.jpg
That's actor Aaron Eckhart, the actor playing Harvey Dent in the new Batman movie.

Wow. Their age is far apart, but not their look...

The moon's full.

Very gotham. I'm stuck here for a while it seems.

No, seriously

Its 3 in the morning and the parking lot is totally full - and stagnant...

3:00 AM

The movie is over and all I can say is WOW!

Spoiler alert: Bruce Wayne is the Batman...

Forget Harry Potter

Midnight. 16 theatres. All sold out. Holy mega-boxoffice, batman! They may make their loot back tonight!!!

Gasoline - twas cheaper before.

I remember when I could drive my escort home on $2. That wouldn't do much today...

Escape Claws

Well here's a bit of followup on the parking lot incident. First of all, one of my alert readers went out to the google maps and got an arial photo of the site. Turns out there's a pond just out of sight past a little fence and some kudzu & grass.

Then I got to looking for info on crawfish migration - and found this article describing a mass migration across a highway in Louisiana.



And here's a link to an article about catching crawfish which includes a paragraph about their migratory behavior. (And also indicates that if you get a good mix of small & large that it indicates a healthy population - which is what I saw here.) LINK TO ARTICLE

All that stuff indicates that they do leave the water to migrate, there was a large freshwater supply nearby (with elevated water levels due to large quantities of rain) and that they can at least walk the distance between two sides of a highway if people leave them alone... so it is plausible that they could have come out of that pond to wander the parking lot at 2:00 am.

I think I'll still followup with an expert...

Attack of the Crawfish!

A woman's scream filled the movie theatre parking lot and I bounded over to help. She and her date were confounded by an enormous bug - which turned out to be a huge crawfish. It rained a lot these past two days - but I think 'twas sexual displays I was seeing out there as the crawfish snipped at each other. (Or at least some kind of territorial display...)

I easily picked up five lively specimens and saw many more squished throughout the parking lot.

I must do some research on this... I've never seen so many crawfish out of water before. The other obvious solution to this is that someone had a bucket of crawfish in their truck and they either crawled out during the movie, or the person dumped them out in the parking lot. But the distribution of the crawfish was over the entire length of the parking lot - which makes me think it was a natural display, not a result of human action.