Can You Identify This Animal?

It's a sloth. Yikes. I thought they were supposed to be lazy. And yet here's one trying to cross the road. Which of course brings up the more deeply philosophical question: why? Unlike the chicken, which is stupid and just wants to get to the other side, I'd like to think the sloth has other reasons. Sometimes it's worth putting the effort in for a new place to be lazy. You know? Lounging around the same old tree gets boring as all fk. You can be lazy but still have high standards.

This sloth looks far from lazy. If you can hang upside down like that for protracted time lengths, that shows skill in my view. Skill is developed somewhere, dear reader, and I suggest that this sloth, unbeknownst to his buddies, might be a bigtime gym rat. Check out those upper thighs. Or maybe he goes to one of those snotty gymnastic prep places. Maybe he works out on rings. I'm just saying. Wikipedia says sloths spend so much time hanging this way that their fur grows away from their extremities. Also the grass and algae turn their fur green from languishing in the same spot for so long. I can relate, though. Here is another sloth:

Wasting time at the soccer field instead of tackling real jobs at home, such as:

The leaves in my yard have achieved critical mass [title for the nun book?].

They are un-rakeable.

It is an impossible task.

To ask me or expect me to do it would be quite like the task this guy had, as rendered by our friend Titian.

Yes, it's Sisyphus, cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity.

God.

I know my choice, dear reader.

A bientot

Moderate blooper: "Bonn Appetite!" (German version of old standard)

love,

becky