Former Archon Transition Team (ATT) member Blandine Okapi is taking some heat for her most recent remarks about sortition and the annual selection of government in The Park. In an op-ed piece published in The Ruminant Free Press yesterday, Okapi calls the process of sortition, which has been the only method used to select The Park’s 35 Archons, "a ridiculous idea" and says bluntly, "All it does is give us a coalition of the unwilling and … [Read all...]
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OTD in 2015—Interview with Thisbe, Part I: “Life is what happens after the credits roll.”
A partial transcript of the Mammalian Daily Radio (TMD Radio) interview with Thisbe, hosted by Winsell Tamarin and broadcast live December 3, 2014, appears below. Please note, this transcript has been edited due to space limitations. WT: Welcome, Thisbe. It's a great privilege to talk to you today. T: Thank you, Winsell. It's a privilege to be here. WT: I'd like to start off, if you don't mind, by addressing some of your fans' concerns about … [Read all...]
OTD in 2017—Thank you, thank you, thank you, and goodnight: Barkettes at work on memoir
Thisbe and the Barkettes are at work on a memoir, according to the gossip web site headsNtales. In a post dated today, the site's co-founder Hortencia Guacamayo writes that she spoke to a musician "very close to Thisbe" who told her the singers are collaborating on a book that takes a "three hundred and sixty degree view" of their career. Though Guacamayo did not name her source, many in the music business believe it to be a member of … [Read all...]
OTD in 2019—Dewi Rhinoceros: The Mammalian Daily’s choice for Animal of the Year
BREAKING NEWS The Mammalian Daily has chosen former Chief Archon Dewi Merpatee Rhinoceros as its 2018 Animal of the Year. At a press conference at noon today, TMD managing editor Orphea Haas said the newspaper’s staff chose to honour Rhinoceros because of her "tireless commitment to interspecial harmony, and her ongoing work to foster awareness of the effects of enforced domestication." During her term as Chief Archon, Dewi Rhinoceros … [Read all...]
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All the best to you in the New Year!
OTD in 2018—The year of not writing well: Month Without Metaphor presents the words journalists across The Park would like to ban from media in 2019
The staff at The Park's Month Without Metaphor initiative (MonthWithoutMetaphor) has been working hard all month to gather the words and phrases that journalists and readers across The Park have … [Read All About It Here...]
OTD in 2016—The lives we lost in 2016
We remember some of the friends and family we lost in 2016: Zuberi Tembo Endeka Elephant Band bassist and passionate supporter of equality among the … [Read All About It Here...]
Accolades from Margaret Atwood
The Mammalian Daily “Lightens The Morning Cup o’ Gloom,” says Margaret Atwood
