The Myron T. Shplorndheim Gallery of Accidental Renaissance Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of Hindryck Blatzberg’s I Thought This Was the Contessa di Rubini (1621). Painted during a period in which the artist was drinking heavily, Blatzberg had been commissioned to paint the Italian noblewoman but instead stumbled into the Florence Zoological Gardens and painted a koala.
“Archibald Prescott Flargleton, climb down from the table and return to your high chair this instant! The servants will arrive with our tea setting at any moment — do you wish to cause a scandal, young man?”
I am a fisherman. Like my father, and his father before him, I come every day to these waters to cast my line. I’m not sure why we do it — we don’t eat fish, and we never seem to catch anything. I think it’s just to give us an excuse to get out of the house.
There’s something you don’t see every day, Sharon H.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Zoology students at the University of Melbourne, studying the diversity of Australian wildlife, set up a camera outside a burrow in hopes of filming a wombat in the wild. Well, if diversity was what they were after, that’s what they got, because the burrow was visited by a wombat, a koala, and a rabbit — all in the same night! The students think the paths of the three animals never actually crossed, because wombat burrows have multiple rooms.