Tuesday, October 1

 
"First there were chickens; then, chicken tchotchkes!"A great story AND a great headline -- life is good! This is a fun story about a Wisconsin woman who wrote the book on chickens -- actually, one of a growing collection of chicken-focused books. Here's the beginning of a trend: Chickens are cool. Martha Stewart might have elevated an underground tendency toward chickens into a designer niche with her own flock of "pedigreed poultry" (stole that line from the story, I did), but others are finding the joy in raising a small flock. Having been in close personal contact with chickens, I have to say I prefer my chickens on a plate or on a piece of Quimper pottery -- the only stench that comes close to chicken poop is pig poop, and while some chickens are smart, most of them are not -- but if it gives some poor urban drone a few moments of pleasure to imagine a futue spent gaily tossing feed to appreciative avians, fine. Hey, maybe there's a book or a movie to be made there! No, sorry, somebody beat me to it: "The Egg and I," published post-World War II, made into a funny film with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert.
posted by Unknown 11:34 AM