To the Hilt

an addition

For those of you who were (unjustly, in my opinion) disturbed by the presence of Charles Wallace in my previous post, I present to you something that you might find slightly less disgusting:

A chicken picking his boogers.

See, right there? He's picking boogers with one of his toes. Honest, he is. Personally, I find that more disconcerting than the presence of an innocent corn snake, but I thought that some of my readers would beg to differ. Hence, this post.

Of course, once he realized that he was again being followed by the local farm paparazzi, Johnnycakes was quick to assure me that chickens do not have boogers and that he was actually pondering the existence of matter versus energy in such works of fiction as A Wind in the Door, and what, exactly, it was that Simon saw in Lord of the Flies. (I don't believe him, despite his record as a perfectly honest chicken.)

As it is, the fact that I have been unable to decide upon his namesake might be what keeps me from trusting him. Is he John Wayne, as I initially thought? His fate was to join the menagerie at my church's ranch, where he would fulfill his roosterly duty by waking up the One Pony and Donkey show each morning. He was thus named due to a friendly fued between our pastor, a great fan of John Wayne movies, and our ranch director, who promotes Roy Rogers as a more wholesome alternative. Thus, I was going to name Johnnycakes after John Wayne, just to make them wonder. But then, I stumbled once more upon a handful of Johnny Cash songs burned onto a CD that had been given to me. I was now in the midst of a moral dilemma. Who was this young rooster, this son of the mildly psychotic bantam? For whom should he be named? For that matter, what about everyone's favorite Outsider, also named Johnny?

As you may have guessed, I have yet to decide upon whom he takes after the most. Time will tell. One of these days, I'm bound to find him toting around either a pistol or a guitar, at which point I'll give you the verdict.

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{ 10:47, 2007-May-12 } { Posted by jbeth8489 }

I think you should name him Ivanhoe...but then I've been naming everything that lately. Or what about Braveheart?

Anyway, about the snake...sorry! I just don't like the things. Though, I did survive Brad having a tarantula for a pet...