Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The 23 Days of Bear Christmas! Day 1: The Bear Baron of Rhode Island

Welcome to the Bear Days of Christmas! This holiday season we are celebrating not just types of bears, but actual particular bears that have proven themselves to be bearelebrities in the bear world, bears whose bearness shines brighter than the Star of Bethlehem and leads us through the desert of boring mediocre animals (such as earthworms and possums) lacking majestic powerful animal qualities (also known as 'Bearalities') to the manger overflowing with a cornucopia of bear.

To start off, what better than a bear's story from the state tattooed to my back, Rhode Island. This bear has no name, so I've given him one: Roger. The talented journalists at the Providence Journal have written up his account better than I ever could so I shall just link it, but let me summarize just by saying that Roger defeated and entire state agency in his mission to eat sheep. I salute you, Roger!