Re: The Murakami T-Shirt Book
May. 18th, 2022 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI'm still reading the t-shirt book. Body-shaming pedo shit aside, I just really like Haruki Murakami.
One of the chapters is about Murakami's t-shirts with turtles and lizards. Apparently he feels the same way that I do about turtles and lizards, which is that they're really cool. Like, if you have to choose, you'd rather pet a dog, but that doesn't diminish from how cool turtles and lizards are. Murakami says that he went to the Galápagos once, and that the islands are covered in iguanas. I generally don't have a "favorite" type of anything, but damn I love iguanas, and now I sort of want to visit the Galápagos.
On the other hand, that's a long plane ride, and I think ecotourism is kind of stupid to begin with.
On my third hand, I could just go to Florida, which is also now covered in iguanas apparently? When I searched for "where in Florida are the most iguanas" (the first autocomplete suggestion was "where in Florida are the most sinkholes," which sounds like another project for another day), I didn't get a straight answer, but I did learn all sorts of interesting iguana facts, such as:
- They dig under houses.
- They crawl into sewers.
- The colonize drainage canals.
- They bore holes into seawalls.
- They ruin golf courses.
- They eat butterflies.
In any case, I think the highest concentration of iguanas might be around Miami, but that could just be because the area has a high human concentration and thus more reported sightings. More research is necessary; but, in the meantime, please enjoy this lovely picture of one handsome chonker.
One of the chapters is about Murakami's t-shirts with turtles and lizards. Apparently he feels the same way that I do about turtles and lizards, which is that they're really cool. Like, if you have to choose, you'd rather pet a dog, but that doesn't diminish from how cool turtles and lizards are. Murakami says that he went to the Galápagos once, and that the islands are covered in iguanas. I generally don't have a "favorite" type of anything, but damn I love iguanas, and now I sort of want to visit the Galápagos.
On the other hand, that's a long plane ride, and I think ecotourism is kind of stupid to begin with.
On my third hand, I could just go to Florida, which is also now covered in iguanas apparently? When I searched for "where in Florida are the most iguanas" (the first autocomplete suggestion was "where in Florida are the most sinkholes," which sounds like another project for another day), I didn't get a straight answer, but I did learn all sorts of interesting iguana facts, such as:
- They dig under houses.
- They crawl into sewers.
- The colonize drainage canals.
- They bore holes into seawalls.
- They ruin golf courses.
- They eat butterflies.
In any case, I think the highest concentration of iguanas might be around Miami, but that could just be because the area has a high human concentration and thus more reported sightings. More research is necessary; but, in the meantime, please enjoy this lovely picture of one handsome chonker.
