Night of the Living Sciuridae Carolinensis

I have my man Jacques here at the Witch House along with his plucky assistant/girlfriend, Lady O'hara. We're standing there in the living room that doubles as bedroom around the perimter of my futon, conducting an all hands audio reconnaissance. I've got the lights off. The radio off. The Fans off too. Not aone says a word. Jacques and I have our heads tilted at an angle to allow the radar of the ears to better scan the room.

"Schzzzz-Schzzzz-schzzz" this quick burst of scratching noise starts and stops a few feet above our faces.

"Do you hear that?" I ask in a whisper. I know they did but I feel compelled to say it outloud as if the act of framing the moment in a question will s. They both nod without breaking eye contact with the source of the sound.

Then another noise, this time a pitter-patter of tiny footsteps scrambling along the attic floor ...

"ppp-ppp
....ppp-ppp
ppp-ppp
....ppp-ppp
ppp-ppp
....ppp-ppp
ppp-ppp
....ppp-ppp
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....

"Schzzzz-Schzzzz-schzzz" - the burrowing noise continues now directly over a four foot drop from my pillow. There is more noise, something is running along the inside of my walls. A disembodied hand that seems to be racing around on the room on fingers thick as pipes. Finally I have to ask: "So whaddya think - Rats?" ( Read more... )

We could be heroes... or super-villains... just for one day

So i've been listening to a great episode of NPR's This American Life about a subject near and dear to me... Superpowers (click here for the episode. One of the stories they do asks the question what power would you rather have Flight or Invisibility. There are some intresting points raised up, such as the belief that though everyone says they want flight they really lust after invisibility.

To me though the choice between the two powers would be as follows
Flight = Absolute Freedom
Invisibility = Absolute Knowledge.

So I was curious about you guys out there reading this... what would you choose between the two? What if you could have any power? Would you fight crime? Tights? Why?

So here's my little poll - I'll be out of the office from Friday and won't be back until Tuesday so take your time with it (if you choose to answer at all) and i'll see what we come up with.

Thanks:)

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