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13 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear (6-14)
The artificial insemination of bears took hold in 2004 with the successful impregnation of Woodland Park’s Malayan sun, one of the world’s rarest bears and the most likely candidate for extinction, which ushered along the Seattle biologists’ urgency in undertaking the pregnancy; San Diego’s 1999 impregnation by way of artificial injection of a Giant Panda [...]
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12 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear (6-13)
When the bear first came to the zoo it was a cub, its vanilla white hairlets just coming out of oily black skin; Bartlett became attached instantly to the bear’s oafish and lumbering personality as small as it was. The zoo’s staff speculated on the degree of uniqueness the bear possessed, in view of its [...]
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11 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear (6-11)
Occasionally she would go out with coworkers and other members of the staff, where they would carpool downtown to a bar and surround one of the large tables in the back of a bar and trade stories about their days, friends, the management (regardless of presence as a real complaint can always be escalated) or [...]
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10 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear (6-10)
The Pimlico bus left Gate C every twenty minutes until 9pm, when it began arriving every 30 minutes; this meant that if Bartlett was unable to finish her day’s work early enough she would often loll around until 9:20 before making her way to the north gate, or she would pop in to see Bartlett [...]
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9 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear (6-9)
When Bartlett left the bear for the night, she would always exit by way of the zoo’s north entrance, having received special permission from the security guard at Gate C (that being the north gate) to catch the bus that ran down Pimlico Ave to the Heights where her $750 1-BR apartment with washing machine [...]
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8 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear (6-8)
The most acute disturbance to the museum concept came 3 months past the inaugural opening, and of course there had been complaints about the stuffed birds posed dramatically under single overhead 115 watt directed lighting designed to cast dramatic shadows onto the exhibit’s painted black flooring, but rather the disturbance in question had been a [...]
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7 June 2009
When Bartlett Left the Bear
Disclaimer:
With no less than 9 partially written movie reviews dating back to Watchmen, I’m going to try something else with this blog. I wanted it to serve as a dumping ground for writing I wasn’t fully comfortable with, while at the same time trying to learn a “voice” that might work on a blog (how [...]
