Sometimes I Feel Like a Chimp Before it's Reached its Face Eating Phase

I might be the only person who was happy to see this out the window yesterday:

So, there was the sad but necessary business of taking Bucket to the vet. She tried to hide:
And reaching even further back, it turns out the Field Museum has these gigantic Roman olive oil pots. They were dug out of Pompeii, home of a distant puppet show idea of ours:
Yay. Life continues to mystify.

I am Humbled & Laughing Pretty Hard

A Week Later

About a week ago:
I saw Brandon Campbell's beautiful puppet utilized in a great performance of Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage at Martyrs March 9:

Jess & I ogled over primates and tigers at Lincoln Park Zoo:

And without fail, I continue to swoon over the mysteries of the universe, like supernovas that expand unimaginably quickly but seem to trickle:

Oh Boy!