"Life of Pi."

The movie trailer. ADDED: I adore the book . If you don't already know it, read it!

A tiger escaped from its enclosure and roamed around the San Francisco Zoo preying on human beings.

Astounding. Imagine going to the zoo — on Christmas — and encountering a free-ranging Siberian tiger. Three men were severely mauled, and o...

When do you find yourself saying "here, kitty kitty" to a bobcat?

An encounter in California: This past Saturday, I was mountain biking near the summit of Loma Alta, near Fairfax, when suddenly a big furry ...

Jabari was wronged. From The Life of Pi : [Zoo] animals do not escape to somewhere but from something. Something within their territory h...

If it worked once .... Though only one crucifixion was needed to save all humanity, Hollywood seems to think if one crucifixion movie was h...

Reactionary animals. From "The Life of Pi," from a passage defending zoos : If a man, boldest and most intelligent of creatures, w...

Sleep, lifeboat, buzzwords. Limping through the last days of my (horrors!) cold, I felt overwhelmed by fatigue at 7:30 pm last night. Knowin...

Feeling groggy not bloggy today. Sorry for not posting yet today, but I seem to be getting a cold, and I haven't had a cold in over ten...

Goat, Tiger, Abstention, Restraint. I don't have much to say today for some reason. I woke up far too early this morning--at 4--and list...