Skunk Ape

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Current mood: dirty

i watched this documentary on bigfoot on the travel channel some time ago. i don't remember why i decided it would be quality viewing. it was really pretty cool actually; i mean, obviously not the whole trying to prove big foot's existence angle, but hearing all the local people who've sighted him talk about it. There was this one guy in the deep south, really fucking awsome, who had maybe six teeth in his head, a self appointed "doctor of bigfoot-ology."

i wish i had taped his segment. he talked about evolution, and he proposed two theories on why no one has ever found a dead bigfoot. one- that skunkapes have an impressively long life cycle. in biblical stories people lived for hundreds of years, and scientists still discover new species in the amazon that have been alive for several centuries. so why is it so hard to believe a skunkape could basically never die? two-maybe the bigfoots don't die, they just evolve into something else.

it was a weird statement for someone knee deep in the bible belt to make.

i know it sounds lame at first, but i can't stop thinking about it; here's a man who, by all theories of natural selection, should be dead. he's dirty, has no teeth, and lives outside, spending his life searching for a mythical six foot tall man-bear. but he's evolving, right? i mean we're all evolving... he's not going to be dirty and smelly with no teeth forever. tomorrow, someone on extreme makeover is going to see that segment and give him a haircut and some porcelein veneers.

it's not so hard to believe. i mean, it's bigfoot, so it's a little hard to believe... but if you put it into perspective, i mean if you really think about it... i run into bigfoots everyday, the city is full of dirty, hairy, smelly men skulking through the alleys and sleeping in the park during the day. where do they all come from?



Currently reading:
Collected Poems
By C. K. Williams
Release date: 31 October, 2006