It's so hard to get these little monsters to post for a photo:
But it's worth it when they do:
Sorta related: Mark Morford's column today is a valentine to his girlfriend's parrot:
Parrots, you should know right now, are enormously weird. Surreal. They bring with them a bizarre sense of wild and unfamiliar nature and you cannot feed them or watch them move and preen and waddle awkwardly down the hall without this sense of trippy otherness; you cannot hold a parrot in your hand and stroke their funky tiny pencil-thin neck bones and not feel like you are in the presence of something just a little out of the human range of cosmic understanding.
(Parakeets are basically little parrots, you know...)
