EDWARD: Bytheway99-blog asks: Kristen Kringle? No thank you, I just ate. <sigh> While I'm here, using up my precious recreation time on these quality questions, I will address a topic that continues to crop up in recent missives regarding my current recording environment.

I'm not sure how many crows you're all personally acquainted with, but there is certainly not only Ichabod here in the asylum. Ichabod herself is over 30 years old, and her frantic squawking days are long gone. Next to which, she is kept in her cage in Jonathan's office - he does not trust her to fly free, since she only has one eye. I enjoy annoying him by taking her out of the cage, but I would not let her loose; Jonathan's patience only stretches so far. Further, to refer back to an old recording: while Jonathan has crows, not all crows belong to Jonathan. Allow me to elucidate. Gotham is teeming with dead and dying things. One of those things is an enormous oak out in the Arkham courtyard. Crows have taken up residence there, and theirs are the calls that you can hear when I record, as my window faces the courtyard.

And why, you may ask, does a murder of crows live in the grounds of an asylum? Because there is no Scarecrow to frighten them away.