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When Elephants Dance
One Michael Fraase has written an excellent piece on the battle between the entertainment industry and everyone else titled "When Elephants Dance." Well worth reading, and bookmarking, and referring newbies to in order to get them up to speed in the digital content wars. His solution is right on, too, IMHO.
Hello everyone. I have a terrible problem with elephants in my garden. They are dancing and eating everything and pooping everywhere. My neighbor out back has just gotten a permit for a dancing elephant and he doesn't have an adequate fence to keep them performing in his yard. All I have is one of those wooden fences which offers no protection at all. Have you ever seen what a hungry elephant can do to a wooden fence? Or in that matter, a Linux geek in heat?
First they ate the rest of my lettuce, then they ate my peas. Now I have no broccoli, cauliflowers or brussel sprouts. How am I supposed to eat a decent meal? Since they ate my habanero pepper plant that had 3 tiny peppers on it (they ate that with the eggplant, sort of like they were spicing a dish) I don't think pepper spray will slow them down. In fact, they keep dancing back and forth between the basil and the tomatoes now. Do you think these are Italian elephants?
Luckily, most of my soil is hardpan so I don't have giant footprints to contend with but have you ever seen elephant poop? Whoa! talk about your black hills! I tried to get them to go poop in the compost bin behind the shed but have you ever tried to bin train an elephant? Enough said!
Can any of your experienced gardeners help me with my problem? Can you at least tell me how to get them to lose the pink tutus they wear when dancing? Thanks.
--Metrollica