RTP-area local music and culture

[bendy <bendy AT duke.edu>]

I did not name the blasphemous creature. I am using the nomenclature of 
the original post.


Chris Rossi wrote:
> The name confuses me.  I would expect an owl monkey to be a monkey with 
> some traits reminiscent of an owl.  But you are clearly describing an 
> owl with some traits reminiscent of a monkey.  What I would intuitively 
> call a monkey owl.  Weird name.
>
> chris
>
>
> bendy wrote:
> > I make one flip comment about these things over two years ago....
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.chapel-hill/browse_frm/thread/30de330af9dd131
> >
> > ...and now I find myself afflicted. They're out right now, howling their 
> > "Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoaah-Hwaah-Ahh-Ahh-Ahh" chant, mercilessly. They've been 
> > out every night for a week, and for at least half the nights since I 
> > moved to the neighborhood in June. The neighbors say they hear the 
> > hooting in the distance, and say it's a new thing. For me, they're right 
> > in the back yard. A tailfeather was found this morning. I ask myself, 
> > "Isn't it bad for hunting to be making such a racket?" If this is a 
> > mating call, I hear at least two other owl monkeys Hoo-hwaahing back to 
> > get in on the kinky owl monkey action. Probably more. Insatiable brutes! 
> > Figures they'd be monitoring Usenet, so outre in their tastes and 
> > habits. Their grotesque, non-Euclidian chanting is driving me mad. I 
> > warn thee fellow posters, do not speak against these devils.
> >
> > - bendy
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