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We've got a live one! Fresh from the Associated Press, it's a mutant roe deer in Italy with a single horn (not too uncommon) but the horn's in the centre of its head (which is apparently pretty damn rare).

The 1-year-old Roe Deer — nicknamed "Unicorn" — was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Tozzi [director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato] said.
He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns.

I wonder how many Italian hunters are looking at that pointy head and wondering, "When does mutant season open?"

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

As a bachelor in a semi-derelict flat, I'm used to the idea that my pad might whiff a bit. It's a guy thing. And a damp thing, a bike thing, and a surf thing. But just lately, the smell has become a Smell, and last night it actually stopped me getting to sleep. The reek was emanating from below my bed. What ghastliness was down there? I was worried the damp might be rotting my tatami, or that the sewer pipe from the bathroom had cracked.

( But it was more gruesome than that... )