Plenty of opining by Your Humble Narrator, in case you have time on your hands: Check out my reviews of Free Solo and Marvel's Venom, online at Phoenix Magazine...
...as well as my "Four Corners" column on Valley gastropubs, and my short item about the abruptly announced demise and just as sudden revival of Pedro's Mexican in Glendale.
It's always a wacky adventure when my pal Vince Larue visits from Normandy.
Earlier this week we were heading up East Van Buren, along the back forty of the
Phoenix Zoo, when we noticed a large object in the road—a turtle. We pulled
into the parking lot of the Rolling Hills golf course and crossed two lanes of
traffic to get to him. So much traffic went by in that time that I was sure
he’d be turtle pizza by the time we reached him, but incredibly he was intact,
plodding along calmly, almost to the far side of the road.
There was just a
construction site there, however, with no water I could see, and since he
was obviously an aquatic species of turtle I thought we’d better try to get him
back to the lagoons at the rear of the zoo, from whence I’d guess he escaped; you
can often see turtles sunning themselves there. It was tough to find a spot in
the fence he could get through, but we finally left him at the bottom of a
steep bank, near a muddy pool that led through an abutment under the fence. But not, of course, before getting a few testudine selfies...
Could I look any creepier? "Hey lady, y'wanna buy a turtle...?"
Hope he’s OK. It seemed like a better spot than where we found him, anyway.
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