goats.

Goats seem to be a reappearing theme in my life lately... any care to take a guess on what the hell that means?

GOAT INCIDENT 1 - The Buy-a-Goat Project.

Seven Shores Cafe and Generation X Video aim to raise enough money to donate a herd of 10 goats to a community in need. The program is run in conjuction with OXFAM. Looks like they've donated 3 goats already.

This is how it works:

Step1 - go and buy a panini at Seven Shores Cafe... you'll get a single "billy buck"

Step 2 - then, use that buck (or accumulated bucks) towards renting a vid at Gen X.

...Then, they donate the money to the Buy-A-Goat Project.

WE HOPE THAT TOGETHER, WE CAN REACH THIS GOAL!

Great project. amazing.

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GOAT INCIDENT 2 - Spider Goats

Have you heard of these things?

A bio-engineering company in Quebec has genetically modified goats, with 1 gene from a spider.

Why you ask?

Apparently the spider silk-like protein extracted from the milk of the altered goats is used to make "biosteel" - a lightweight and very strong material that can be used for many purposes... some of those purposes being bullet proof vests and anti-ballistic missiles.

Seriously? Aside from this being freakishly cool, Are we ok with this?

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GOAT INCIDENT 3 - Repressed Childhood Memory (thankfully no link to this one)

When I was about 5, my grandparents took me to the zoo in Hallendale, Florida... my grandfather bought some of the animal feed out of the little dispensor and put it in my wee little hand. All was good, until some crazed, child-eating, billy goat got ahold of my terrycloth shorts. AND .WOULD. NOT. LET. GO.

fucking terrifying.

last time i hit the zoo.

H.