View From the Bushes

Let's have a little talk about lemmings. There has long been a belief circulated that lemmings will commit suicide by rushing over the edge of a cliff when overpopulation gets too bad. This belief was perpetuated by a Disney nature documentary called White Wilderness, where lemmings were forced over a cliff by the filmmakers. Beyond this being yet another example of the evil that is the Disney corporation (don't get me started on the year Eisner made 600 million), it's another chapter in the unfair maligning of rodents.

Well, there's good news: the mystery of the lemming has finally been solved. In a 15 year study of a 75 sq. km valley in eastern Greenland, scientists discovered that lemmings do have a big overpopulation problem, but that as one might imagine, predators are more than happy to step in and help the lemmings solve it. In particular, as I'm sure everybody guessed, the stoat is the key to the whole situation (how many times as a writer do you get to say that?).

In any event, it's time to get to work. The next adventure is coming along and should be out next week. Wil Upchurch dropped me an e-mail in the last couple of days to tell me that the double dungeon should be done this weekend, so that will be coming up. In addition, we'll probably have another adventure from Luke Johnson coming up, and on top of all that there's some big announcements coming down the pipe in the next little while, so things are happening. Good things, even.

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Ross