Seeing as how it's friday night, i'm in New Orleans, and i'm sitting in my hotel room, I thought I should write about ridiculous things for this ridiculous situation (you can only spend so much time wandering bourbon street on your own before you descend into a sordid spiral of filth; as cool as a bunch of statisticians, economists, and fisheries scientists can be...and they can...they certainly aren't cool at late hours).

So here goes:
It seems there was a chicken that got it's head cut off in the forties and lived without this usually vital appendage for 18 months. The creative folks in Colorado christened him Mike the Headless Chicken. After a change of heart, his owner decided that feasting on Mike after slaughtering him with an axe was a mean-spirited idea, so he dedicated himself to feeding and watering him with a syringe, allowing him to triple his weight and then some. Hmmmm, maybe a bit sketchy? Maybe not. The axe blade missed his jugular vein, and a blood clot ensured that the rooster retained enough blood to survive. Also, the axe landed high in his neck which left most of the brain stem intact. Mike received his due praise when Life and Time magazines both wrote stories about the phenom, and Guinness World Records later honored him as the "Longest Surving Headless Chicken". I mean, if Guinness says so...

Side note, i'm an idiot and didn't know that a rooster was an adult male chicken. Is this common knowledge? probably.

Also, it does rain more on weekends, atleast in the northeastern United States. Yet another reason to stop driving gas guzzling SUV's. Then again, I'm sure people are just doing it to temper the hurricanes.