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Meaningless Rant: Sith Squirrels

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Blog, Meaningless Rants, Squirrels, Star Wars.

It’s been some time since I did a bizarre squirrel post, but it wasn’t for lack of desire.  I needed something good.  And it’s hard to live up to my Jedi Squirrels post, my most popular entry in more than a year of blogging.

Today, I give you: Sith Squirrels.  Though I don’t think this squirrel looks evil enough to be Sith…maybe if they had gotten one of the albino squirrels off the U of M campus to play the part…  Still, it makes me wonder about the story here.  Is the squirrel writhing on the ground in agony a Jedi Squirrel?  Or perhaps a random victim?  A failed Dark Squirrel Apprentice?  Or perhaps is it the Squirrel Sith Lord being killed in its sleep by its apprentice?

 
[Image credit to Lightning Squirrel author Jeff Kipnis]

I couldn’t find much else in the way of Sith Squirrels, but I did find this: Lightning Squirrel.  Apparently, they’re making a comic about a squirel superhero who commands the power of lightning…it seems no one told them that it’s the bad guys who use Force lightning…  Looks like an evil squirrel, though, doesn’t it?  (Gavin, Garth, your opinions don’t count - you think all squirrels are evil.)

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Meaningless Rant: Squirrel Pirates!

Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Animals, Blog, Meaningless Rants, Squirrels.

So, the squirrel thing is beginning to become something of an obsession, I admit.  This time, I actually looked for interesting squirrel photos, whereas the previous two times, I stumbled apon them by accident.  I found out there are entire websites devoted to squirrels…I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked by that, but I am.

[Totally looks like some bad-ass pirate!  Is he stuffed?]

Scary Squirrel World is probably one of the more disturbing sites.  They say this about squirrels, (or “skwerls”, as they call them): “We like ‘em fine and they taste great. Our mission is to track the world-wide love-hate fascination with squirrels and present it in the most absurd way possible. ”

[Text on the image readss: “Because EVERYONE wants to be a pirate - EVEN SQUIRRELS”]

The other site that shocked me was the Sugar Bush Squirrel site, a site devoted to a squirrel “super model” that has its own studio, comeplete with thousands of clothing articles and props for her photos.  It’s amusing to scroll through the page…there’s even a photo with the squirrel in question dressed as a Trekkie.

[The super model herself, Sugar Bush Squirel.]

Will this be the end of my squirrel obsession?  Or will it keep growing?  Will I fall to the Dark Side like “Anutkin Skywalker”, whom Super Bush Squirrel poses as in a picture on her website?  Only time will tell…

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Meaningless Rant: Super Squirrel (Supersquirrel?)

Posted on November 7th, 2006 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Animals, Blog, Meaningless Rants, Squirrels.

As a follow-up to me Jedi Squirrel rant from last month, I now bring you Super Squirrel. (Supersquirrel? Should it be one word or two? It looks a tad strange all strung together like German, but then, who ever wrote “Super Man”? It’s Superman.)

[Is there a plush Super Squirel out there somewhere???]

What disturbs me more than anything is the sheer amount of super-powered squirrels that people envision. I mean, why squirrels? Why not dogs or cats, if you’re going to pick an animal? (I was searching for a Supercat costume when I came across Super Squirrel.)

Squirrels just don’t seem that amazing to me, unless they’re albino and, preferably, living on the University of Minnesota campus. Yet they must have a fairly large fanbase out there if people are creating images of them as Jedi Knights and super heroes.

Which makes me wonder: what other kind of squirrels are out there? Are there squirrels in wedding gowns or designer fashion clothes straight off the Parisian runways? Are there green Hulk squirrels, or Wolverine squirrels with knives coming out of their fists? Are there special holiday squirrels, like Santa Squirrel for Christmas, and perhaps a squirrel laying chocolate eggs for Easter?

Is there any place in the world where they keep squirrels as pets? Or perhaps employ them to carry notes like messenger pigeons? Are squirrels perhaps some sort of advanced species, like mice are revealed to be in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

[Apparently Super Squirrel is even a legitimate business…though it is from California, and, in that lights doesn’t seem quite so strange…]

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Meaningless Rant: Jedi Squirrels

Posted on September 24th, 2006 by Anna Zhan.
Categories: Animals, Blog, Cats, Meaningless Rants, Squirrels, Star Wars.

While surfing the net during my luxurious 2-hour mid-day break at work one day, I discovered that there is a disturbing amount of stuff on Jedi squirrels on the net.  Not a LOT, mind you…but why would there be any?

[Image rights disputed by multiple parties - please contact if you have proof of ownership so I can credit this picture accordingly]

I mean, who thinks of this stuff?  Who decides to put a lightsaber in the hands of a squirrel?  And why?  It makes me think of the albino squirrel back on the U of M campus.  Can you imagine it slicing open trash cans, nuts, pizza boxes, or whatever, with a lightsaber?

[Perhaps this image belongs on my Sith Squirrels post…]

I understand that it might be cute to create a picture or your feline or canine companion carrying a lightsaber…come to think of it…I have the perfect photo of him for that - I’m totally doing it!

Certainly I can’t be the first person to do this to their beloved pet…but isn’t it awesome?  He’s got the perfect expression on his face - so serious!  There is a new force in the galaxy to be reckoned with - Tarzan, Jedi Cat!

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