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About thirteen years ago, I brought a finch home to live with me.
His full name was Jesus Meep Upholstery, but everyone called him Meep. He is pictured here with his roommate, Meow
. Meep lived with me for about four years until his untimely demise in the early nineties. I would go into the details, but suffice it to say, I was a shitty excuse for a guardian at the time, and have probably racked up quite a few notches in the bad karma bedpost. over i (and no he didn't starve to death, or die of dehydration!). It was the middle of winter when he passed away, and the ground outside was frozen solid, which prevented an decent burial, so I wrapped him in a burial shroud, along with some flower petals, some bird food, and a crystal (Meep was a hippie).
I kept putting off burying him until he became freeze dried in the freezer. Because he had made such a name for himself in the world (certainly you have heard of him!), I decided that rather than bury him, I would would build a shrine to him and put him on display, much like that Russian guy- you know.. Lenin, or McCartney or whatever... Anyway, I have been toting his body around for almost a decade. His current place of rest is in the arms of a cutey li'l toy.
I think of it as "Meep's wheezy li'l friend". Tonight, I have decided to unroll his shroud
and display his remains to the public. There will of course, be a mandatory fee, but I'll just send some thugs over to collect later, soze ya can git allah the fun now.
Here he is unrolled
. He has lost his crystal, and most of his food, though the flower petals are still there. I will have to make sure that he gets a new supply of his missing things...
Here is li'l Meep laying on his left side
, and on his right
.
As soon as i get him a proper shrine, I will make sure to have a gathering, and everyone can pay their respects by filing past his crystal casket, and swilling hooch.
Amen.
The big, fat words of eeno at January 15, 2002 11:54 PM
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In honor of Meep's unfurling, Deadopenguinheado would like to send best wishes for the replacement of missing hippie things. Deadopenguinheado regrets not being able to swill hooch at the viewing of Deadofinchomeep. One day in the future there will be a meeting between the two, and until then, Deadopenguinheado (actually the full name is DeadoAdelePenguinHeado) will keep warm thoughts of Meepodeadobirdo in it's deado empty skullo. Hurrah for the unfurling!
Deadopenguinheado's spokesperson's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on January 16, 2002 02:11 AM
oh my fucking god. this is your best entry to date!!! he looks like an old man,eh?
i am definately doing this with Pius
me-wah's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on January 16, 2002 03:07 AM
And to think I only buried poor li'l Tibberkitty, when I coulda stuffed him in my freezer for 10 yrs....
siddr's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on January 16, 2002 08:14 AM
Um I used to have a bunch of finches when I was a kid. We would let them fly around the house, and they would sit on my head and pluck out my hair to make their love nests. Then they would have lots of eggs and love them a little while and then eat them up. They made my friends anxious. They thought we were the crazy bird people. I didn't understand how it happened either, really. They all eventually died and I put them in the flowerbed to make my flowers grow. There were lots of things in that flowerbed.
We did used to keep the dead pet rats in the freezer until we drove over a special bridge we did this ritual on for them before burying them at sea. I made for quite a suprise for hungry non roommates.
t's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on January 16, 2002 01:02 PM
puur meep. puur purr meep. and might i say that i am very impressed with the background display on those meep and friend fotos. you are a real pro.
muji's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on January 17, 2002 03:57 PM
Hello Meep! It's so nice to finally see you after all of these years
And hello Deadopenguinheado!!! It's been so long since I first found you in the Dry Valleys!
I should introduce DeadoWeeTinyPetrelHeado to you both. I'm going to have to seek out a taxonomist to identify this one, because none of the birdos who I know can identify it further than just saying that it's a petrel. DeadoWeeTinyPetrelHeado unfortunately couldn't make another journey across the Southern Ocean as he didn't come with wings. He's waiting out his time in a box filled with books in Tasmania. He's a very studious creature.
Looking at the coming years, I'm picturing the unfurling of Pious' shroud. Will it leave the image of a pope behind?
Jen on Ice & DeadoWeeTinyPetrelHeado's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on December 11, 2005 05:53 AM
awwww, poor meepypoo, I'm sure he'd appreciate the shrine though
you know, my 2 year old son accidentally killed my beta fish, Orpheus (because he thought it was ok to take him out of the water and play with him on the floor for a while). Aaaaanyway, I put off burying him forever, because it was in the summer here in Dallas which is 400 hundred degrees even at night in the winter. So I put him in a little box with no lid and put duct tape over the top to seal it. I remember after a few weeks the top started to poof out from all the gasses. So I was like "...time to bury him now!" Well it's been several months now and I forgot about it until I just read your meep post. So I'm gonna check it out tomorrow and take some pictures or something, if the smell doesn't kill me to death.
ophelia's werdz of wizdum, deposited here on December 11, 2005 05:17 PM
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