Nate vs. Alpaca

In honor of Nate's return from South America, let's play a little game called "Nate vs. Alpaca." Ready? Great!

Q: What's the difference between Nate and an alpaca?

A: One has shaggy hair, beady eyes, and an idiot grin.




The other is an alpaca.

Reunited!

Tonight, Nate returned home to DC, and he was reunited with his beloved alpaca coat. Here are some pictures from the emotional scene at Dulles airport.

So that's why he went to South America:

Reunited, and it feels so good . . . .

Lonely

Sometimes, an alpaca coat needs to drink alone. Like when it's been apart from Nate for three months. Bartender, another round.

Imponderables

Bertolt Brecht, in one of his more depressive moods, is said to have demanded that each man, if he is to be a man, must ask himself this unsettling but unavoidable question: Is there, truly, anything better than Monster Truck Jam?




Kein Wunder that the answer has forever since been elusive......

....til now!! Herr Brecht, meet your Truth!!:


Who knew that life's most difficult question could be answered with a simple thumbs-up? That's the magic of Alpaca!

National Alpaca Day

Welcome to National Alpaca Day! I have to say, I was very surprised at the turn out. We had been worried that by picking a workday (Tuesday, January 20), and in the middle of a cold winter, that few people would have the ability or the willingness to attend. Boy, were we wrong, as you can see by this photo:



Anyway, as the crowd began to disperse around 1p, it had to be said, this was a great day for Alpaca.




(btw, Alpaca smells a lot like hope, and tastes like change.)

Ode to Alpaca

There once was a coat of alpaca
known as far as Lake Titicaca
it could inspire a jingle
and make persons tingle
to the point where they had to make caca.*

Behold! The Crusading Minstrel d'Alpaca.....


Extremely well-known and publicized alpaca caca fact: "To help alpacas control their internal parasites they have a communal dung pile, where they do not graze. Generally, males have much tidier, and fewer dung piles than females who tend to stand in a line and all go at once."

A Daring Raid on an al-Paca Training Camp

Yes, that's an American flag. But don't be fooled. This is an al-Paca training camp, a dangerous seedbed of camelid radicalism.

There are al-Paca members as far as the eye can see. It won't be easy to infiltrate the camp, but we have a secret weapon: Nate's alpaca coat.

It's working! Nate's coat has tricked the al-Paca members into accepting us.



Mission accomplished! We've abducted a dangerous al-Paca leader named Bacchus. Henceforth he will be known as Detainee #276198.