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This post features all the photos that I could find of my cute and talkative little parrotlet that I named Austin after Austin Powers (I bought him and the movie on DVD the same day on Thanksgiving weekend in November of 1999.) He sadly passed away suddenly in the summer of 2011. I also have a short film clip of him mimicking a Star Trek Tribble and a long audio clip of him talking through his massive vocabulary. I\u2019ll be posting both on this blog as soon as I am able to get them processed and online. There are more photos I have of him, a lot more I think, but they are all on floppy disk so it will take some time to recover them all.<\/p>\n

His voice could be hard to understand at first, due to its pitch, but once you understood what he was saying\u2026 you\u2019d probably burst out laughing. He knew several cute words and phrases like \u201cyou my buddy?\u201d which was the first phrase he ever learned. Later he started saying \u201cAustin\u2019s a pretty bird\u201d quite often because he\u00a0knew<\/em>\u00a0what it meant, and he was damned proud of himself. He also knew\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>kinds of words and phrases. He went through a biting phase and during that time he picked up all sorts of \u201ccolorful metaphors\u201d. Austin would even take different words he had picked up and combine them into brand new phrases he\u2019d never heard before like \u201cAustin\u2019s a pretty bastard\u201d which is a combination of the aforementioned \u201cAustin\u2019s a pretty bird\u201d and what he would always call my dad whenever he\u2019d walk into the room ever since he once knocked over Austin\u2019s cage which was \u201cdirty old bastard\u201d. I could go on! His vocabulary was just so extensive and impressive. It breaks my heart to think of how he\u2019s gone now except for these photos and some scratchy recordings.<\/p>\n

NOTE: In January 2026, I used ON1’s ReSizeAI<\/a> tool to rework all of these tiny photos from when I didn’t know how to focus my camera and made them small (because those were the early days of the internet and everything had to download fast on a 56k modem) into larger and clearer photographs. I am against generative AI which trains on stolen creative materials, but this uses only the photograph I ask it to use. I guess <\/span>this is okay. I’m just happy to be able to see Austin clearly again.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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ALL PHOTOS ARE COPYRIGHT \u00a9 1999 \u2013 2011 LIZZIE PRUSACZYK.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<\/h3>\n

Please do not take any photos from this page without permission. If you would like to use something from this blog, please\u00a0contact me<\/a>\u00a0first<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the gallery post for my late parrotlet named Austin who had an even bigger vocabulary than he was cocky; and he was pretty damn cocky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[69,70,73,72,71,74],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets","tag-austin","tag-bird","tag-parrot","tag-parrotlet","tag-pet","tag-photos","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-content\/uploads\/austin020b.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"builder_content":"

This post features all the photos that I could find of my cute and talkative little parrotlet that I named Austin after Austin Powers (I bought him and the movie on DVD the same day on Thanksgiving weekend in November of 1999.) He sadly passed away suddenly in the summer of 2011. I also have a short film clip of him mimicking a Star Trek Tribble and a long audio clip of him talking through his massive vocabulary. I\u2019ll be posting both on this blog as soon as I am able to get them processed and online. There are more photos I have of him, a lot more I think, but they are all on floppy disk so it will take some time to recover them all.<\/p>

His voice could be hard to understand at first, due to its pitch, but once you understood what he was saying\u2026 you\u2019d probably burst out laughing. He knew several cute words and phrases like \u201cyou my buddy?\u201d which was the first phrase he ever learned. Later he started saying \u201cAustin\u2019s a pretty bird\u201d quite often because he\u00a0knew<\/em>\u00a0what it meant, and he was damned proud of himself. He also knew\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>kinds of words and phrases. He went through a biting phase and during that time he picked up all sorts of \u201ccolorful metaphors\u201d. Austin would even take different words he had picked up and combine them into brand new phrases he\u2019d never heard before like \u201cAustin\u2019s a pretty bastard\u201d which is a combination of the aforementioned \u201cAustin\u2019s a pretty bird\u201d and what he would always call my dad whenever he\u2019d walk into the room ever since he once knocked over Austin\u2019s cage which was \u201cdirty old bastard\u201d. I could go on! His vocabulary was just so extensive and impressive. It breaks my heart to think of how he\u2019s gone now except for these photos and some scratchy recordings.<\/p>

NOTE: In January 2026, I used ON1's ReSizeAI<\/a> tool to rework all of these tiny photos from when I didn't know how to focus my camera and made them small (because those were the early days of the internet and everything had to download fast on a 56k modem) into larger and clearer photographs. I am against generative AI which trains on stolen creative materials, but this uses only the photograph I ask it to use. I guess this is okay. I'm just happy to be able to see Austin clearly again.<\/p>\n[gallery orderby=\"rand\" ids=\"4510,4511,4512,4513,4514,4515,4516,4517,4518,4519,4520,4521,4522\"]\n

ALL PHOTOS ARE COPYRIGHT \u00a9 1999 \u2013 2011 LIZZIE PRUSACZYK.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<\/h3>

Please do not take any photos from this page without permission. If you would like to use something from this blog, please\u00a0contact me<\/a>\u00a0first<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dream9.art\/aiw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}