hahaha paris hilton, a monkey, some deer, and a banana

Poor sweet deer getting bullied by a monkey for a banana. 🍌🐒

A video posted by Paris Hilton (@parishilton) on Jan 27, 2015 at 11:27am PST

STATE OF THE UNION

in case ya missed it, all barack obama said last night was that he was turning over all presidential duties to banana joe, the affonpinscher (aka fancy jacky).

cheese?

what is DJV doing this weekend?

thx neely!

best friends for EVER

you may remember Suryia and Roscoe from a previous post on this blog (which i cant seem to find). now they have cowritten a book!

look at how suryia tries to get roscoe to eat a banana! omfg.

to make up for last night

I don't know what i was thinking. this is what the kids are listening to right now.



REAL G'S MOVE IN SILENCE LIKE LASAGNA

the last thing you need.

there are about to be no more bananas.

This week's New Yorker has a huge story about the banana industry that touches on all of the familiar complaints against it: the inherent lack of sustainability of their product, company-funded massacres. But what it mostly focuses on is Tropical Race Four, a sort of super-fungus that turns Cavendish bananas into mush. So scientists are trying to build a better banana! One that is resistant! Here's the thing: It doesn't sound like they're making a lot of progress.

One of the most interesting pieces of info in the story is that this already happened once. See, the bananas that were originally eaten all over the U.S. weren't the Cavendish variety, they were Gros Michel bananas. (They were also, by all accounts, far tastier.) But a fungus called Race One, which is closely related to Tropical Race Four, wiped them out in the first half of the twentieth century. Really, one of the main reasons we have Cavendish bananas is because they're resistant to Race One. But it sounds like we might not have them for much longer either. (via)

great.

thx a lot, liz.