when javelina get in the newspaper

Today I learned, theoretically, how to identify javelina tracks. They're about 1 3/4 inches long and are pointy at the tip and vaguely heart-shaped. If you're not from around here, a javelina is not a pig (that seems to be very important somehow), and the only one I've seen looked like a cross between a little gray pig (sorry) and a barrel cactus.

In other news, I learned that we do, indeed, live in the biggest small town in the world. We have a population of between 500,000 and 750,000 people, depending on who you ask, but the local Fox affiliate on the news tonight covered the opening of a Benihana restaurant. To be fair, a chain moving to town does have economic implications, but then the news ladies did the end-of-segment-stilted-chit-chat, discussing how they were going to make sure to try it out. I could be on the news around here, except for the cosmetics allergies and the sarcasm.