Tales from the Corn Portal

Are you fascinated by all of the weird and wonderful things to be found out on the internet and around the world? Then you may like my new blog Tales from the Corn Portal. This blog will host all of the weird stuff that I come across in my day-to-day ventures around the internet. Check it out, but be forewarned-- some of this stuff can get downright creepy, and other bits are nauseatingly cute and adorable! Check it out!

Ants and their wiggling captive...

A couple of weeks ago I was leaving for work, when I spotted something wiggling around on the walk to my car. I saw a bunch of ants holding onto what looked like a worm or something, and they appeared to be carrying it left and then right and then left again. Back and forth. I thought, "What the heck?" So I put my stuff in my car and came back with my camera to get a better look, and this is what I found.

That would appear to be the lost tail of a baby lizard. It is still moving, and the lizards are hanging on for dear life, trying to figure out what to do with it, I guess. Pretty cool. A few days later, Woodrow spotted a very small lizard with no tail. So it seems the trick of dropping it's tail succeeded in saving its life. (For those who don't live around lizards, that is a little trick they have. When caught by a predator, they will drop their tail, and it's wiggling on the ground will sometimes distract the predator so the lizard can get away. The lizards then grow new tails.)

My Own Little World of Weird

You gotta love it. The local news here says that a man was arrested in a grocery store parking lot for making out with blow-up dolls in the parking lot.

You can't make this stuff up.

What the heck is with that????

So I'm on the phone with Mom, and I sit on the bed while we talk. And during our phone conversation I look up and see this:


What the heck is with that????


Yep, you saw it right. That is a dead lizard hanging by one leg from the back of my entertainment center! What's up with that? It couldn't have been there too long. Surely I would have noticed it!

My other question is, "What the heck is attached to his tail?" Was he moulting? I didn't know the lizards down here moult! (I since read up and found out that they moult about once per month.)

What happened to it? I couldn't get a good view from the back.


I wondered if maybe it somehow got hung up on something, but when Woodrow went to take it off of the entertainment center, he barely touched it and it fell. So it couldn't have been snagged on anything.

Here's my theory: The lizard got into the house, the cats terrorized it and chased it under the bedroom door. Exhausted and stressed, it found its way up to the top of the entertainment center, maybe shaky and confused from stress, he slips off the entertainment center and catches himself by one leg, but in the process he has a heart-attack from the scare of falling. So, there I find him, hanging by one leg from the back of my entertainment center.

What?! You got a better theory?