http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog The official blog of the book: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:22:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well we don’t know what it is about this summer but there is certainly something fishy going on. This week’s oddity comes from North Carolina where David Hayes hauled in a 21 pound catfish using his granddaughters Barbie fishing pole (as if the Monster Shark Hunt and the Mountauk Monster ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/barbie-pole-catches-record-fish-for-the-barbie/ Wow, if Shark-Week and the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Hunt weren't enough, the latest environmental oddity to wash-up on our shores is the Montauk Monster. Could it be: An unknown and highly endangered marine mammal A sea turtle absent its shell (perhaps as a result of our Hawksbill-Turtle Bidet) The cast-off body parts of ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/the-moutauk-monster/ This weekend marked the third annual Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Hunt - American sport at it's finest. Sure there were the usual small minded people that would like to stop the event, but for the most part the event went off without a hitch with the boat Waterbury hauling in ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/oak-bluffs-monster-shark-hunt-environmentalism-at-its-best/ As we were flipping through Sun-Dried Aardvark-Tongue Swizzle-Sticks today looking for our next newsletter installment we noticed that over at The Art of Manliness they are serving up an excellent guide to snakes. Part 1: Know thine enemy. Now anybody who reads the Aardvark's Tongue or subscribes to the newsletter ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/a-very-manly-serpent/ It's summer - time to heat things up. Hopefully as you have been poking around the blog you have come across our Stranger than Aardvark Fiction category entries. We thought we were strange ones as we were dreaming up imaginary items and putting the book together (I mean a Shellacked ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/summer-book-giveaway/ The perfect gift for this hunter? A groundhog. For several weeks the dogs have been terrorizing a groundhog that has taken roost under our storage unit. Each morning they lurch out of the building, squealing like stuck pigs as they dash off to check on their prey and each day they ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/gift-for-the-hunter/ For formal occasions when a tuxedo, or kilt with Prince Charles jacket are called for, a man needs a good bow-tie – one that set’s him apart from the crowd without coming off like a pipe smoking, tweed sporting professor of theoretical economic navel gazing. Sure you could go with ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/cane-toad-bow-tie-stranger-than-aardvark-fiction-item-5/ So here's a little news item. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering re-listing the Pygmy Owl as an endangered species in Arizona. The bird was first listed in 1997 and subsequently delisted in 2006. Now there's probably no rush since there are nearly 30 birds still in existence, ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/the-endangered-not-endangered-possibly-endangered-pygmy-owl/ While we do like having a blog and hope that people will actually stop by and read it, the whole social media scene is starting to feel a bit force-fed for our tastes. Social media should be about what feels normal and natural (because it’s social after all). But now ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/anti-socialmedia-way-better-than-the-other-kind/ This Friday, May16th we can proudly celebrate Endangered Species Day and all that we have to done to create an environment where animals and rare species are cherished and protected. Amazingly the U.S. government yesterday declared the polar bear and endangered species and acknowledged that climate change is indeed destroying ... http://www.aardvarktongue.com/blog/endangered-species-day-wahoo/