As it turns out, I don't need to be Alice chasing
the White Rabbit into his burrow to get lost in my own
private rabbit hole of curiosity and trivia, blindly
chasing links that interest or amuse me, in much the same
way leafing randomly through a book of art might.
It starts innocently enough - "rabbit hole" leads to
"burrow" which is a tunnel excavated by any number
animals - rabbits, chipmunks, prairie dogs, moles -
and the difference between vertebrate burrows and
those dug by invertebrates is not for the squeamish so
I'm off to learn about subterranean fauna, such as
stygofauna and troglofauna, and the fascinating
ecological and environmental classifications of
each one, and how subterranean fauna have evolved
in isolation due to stratigraphic barriers, and that leads to
the New Zealand Speleological Society and their recreational
caving activities, promoting cave conservation along with
its counterparts the British Cave Research Association
(and how fun would it be to explore caves in the UK!)
and the National Speleological Society, but hey what about
The Crown Minerals Act of 1991? It was here I learned that
Xena: Warrior Princess (or at least the actress who
portrayed her, Lucy Lawless) is a New Zealander
and was opposed to the subsequent passage of the 2013
amendment that promoted increased prospecting and exploration
and also that her middle name is Frances, and that she is a
singer who played Rizzo in a Broadway revival of "Grease"
which incidentally included additional songs written by
Jon Farrar, the Australian producer who was largely
responsible for one of the albums from my formative years
"Physical" by Olivia Newton-John, who in addition to having a
phenomenal singing voice, has been awarded both the
Order of Australia (AC) and the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire (DBE) which might explain why she has never
answered any of the love letters I've sent to her over the years
but neither has the Electric Light Orchestra, whom Livvy
(as her friends call her) worked with on the Xanadu soundtrack
but in their defense, I've never actually written to
Jeff Lynne or Bev Bevan or Roy Wood, and in actuality
I never wrote to Livvy either, I just said that to make the joke
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