silly stuff

[e_phemerart]

I'm going to make a mascot plush of the "Rare, Elusive Northern Alabama Trail Sloth" to accompany me to my races.

Envisioning a shaggy chimera of a creature: part sloth, part mountain goat, with an adorable slightly anthropomorphic face*, running shoes on her back feet, long sloth claws on her front, maybe with curving mountainsheep horns on her head.

(Once again, I had somebody comment that I'm like a little mountain goat on the trails when I just keep plucking my way along on the uphills, but I feel the sloth is more naturally my totem animal.)

I liked this lyrical mention on a nature site about sloths that they "subsist on leaves and raindrops."

Did you know sloths sometimes appear green tinged as algae grows on their coat? Maybe I'll have found a use for that obnoxious avocado green silky shag fur fabric I have...

Sloth ref links:
http://lumq.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/_sloth.jpg
http://www.briancoldrick.com/images/sloth-3.jpg
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/100826/GAL-10Aug26-5544/media/PHO-10Aug26-247205.jpg
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/18/snoozy-the-sloth-a-s.html
http://blog.justinblinder.com/2009/05/snoozy-the-sloth/
http://katz0r.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-sloth-love.html
http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv27o3ZCJX1qapgtno1_500.jpg

*Lol..I just impuse Ebay-ed this old teletubbie item, which I am going to alter into my mascot. Look at the teletubby doll and then at the following link of the baby sloth and tell me they don't have a similarly cutesy face?

http://usera.ImageCave.com/ephemeral/SlothC03559.jpg

http://electricsloth.com/blog/images/baby_sloth.jpg