The next thing to come….

All the (alleged) wit and (dubious) wisdom of Practical Meerkat,
updated, revised, copyedited and ready for your e-reader!



January 31st (or thereabouts). Via BookView Press

(and yes, you will be able to download it from all the Usual Suspects.)

weekend joy

This is the best thing you will see all day. Maybe all year. And if you are not grinning in sheer joy (and maybe tearing up a little) at the end, then (IMO) you lack an essential piece of soul.

"On the second day of his 3-day trek around Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in search of mountain gorillas, nature photographer, conservationist, and biotech entrepreneur John King couldn’t believe his luck.

Despite paying a fee of $600 a day with no guarantee of actually seeing the wild primates, King and his group of guides had spotted not one, but two mountain gorilla troops. Their second encounter had been a resting troop of gorillas called the Rusheguras, which King watched and photographed from a safe distance for about an hour.

But nothing would prepare him for what happened the next day."