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Snow White—17 years old—didn’t come meowing for food when I entered the kitchen at 6 a.m. An hour later I found her lying motionless on the sofa. I stared until she moved, slightly, nestling her face more deeply between her back paws....
Respect is due to Ingrid Burrington, courtesy of whose Perfect Sentences newsletter I was reminded of this David Graeber classic from The Baffler, whose topic (and, interestingly, some of whose digressions) are serendipitously relevant...
When I presented my panel paper “Teaching White Supremacy in Marvel Comics” at the Comics Studies Society conference in June, I said this fall I would be changing my first-year writing seminar from “Superhero Comics” (a version of which...
By Onslaught Six, Roz Leahy, Maeve MurrayTidal Wave GamesOSELevel 2? Engage with multiple factions of orcs, beastmen, rodentia, and cults. Infiltrate the followers of a doomed machine. Fall prey to a vampiric lord. Escape from the moat...
The Hebrew word for "frog", צְפַרְדֵּעַ tzfardea, appears 13 times in the Tanakh. All of them are related to the plague in Egypt. Eleven of them are in the book of Shemot during the narrative of that plague, and two are from separate...
Mancub came in when my alarm went off to tell me that the sunlight has gone away and I needed to bring it back. While I was sitting outside with coffee, the sun broke through briefly, and he commented over his shoulder (very much an...
Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form, lunar mountains crop out near-instantly, geologically speaking.Mountains on our dear Earth primarily form when two colliding plates of Terra’s crust lift up...
After years of biohackers spending thousands of dollars on custom ice barrels, chiller units, and backyard livestock troughs, health tech startup Frigid Flow announced a major breakthrough today. Their innovative new product is the...
PrologueAs a kid of the late 80's, Hulk Hogan was my hero. Not Terry Bollea, the performer who portrayed The Hulkster. Hulk Hogan the character. 💡Hulk's theme songWhen it comes crashing down and it hurts insideYa' gotta take a stand, it...
…in postcard form! The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company decided in 1892 to move uptown, to Madison Square. The new company headquarters was a building at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 23rd Street. Business was good, and...
What would you do with a billion dollars? I am occasionally asked by young people for my life advice. Could I counsel them as they decide what to do? They are thinking of going into something new. Or thinking about quitting their job....
Carp are fatty fish with heavy bones, and are excellent when smoked over fruit wood for a long time. This is not a delicate fish. Smoked Carp is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.
It is often only after we grow older that we recognize the people who helped shape us. For some, those people were parents, teachers, coaches, aunts, or uncles. In my life, they tended to be men about ten years older than me whom I met...
Today we read three 1925 stories by E. Hoffmann Price as part of our exploration of 1920s Weird Tales. WT first hit the racks in 1923, and we have read at least one story from each of those 1923 issues--click this link for a list of...
Which Mr M Wilson? Why is Barclaycard sending me a PIN for a credit card I don’t recognise? That was the slightly alarming question I found myself asking recently. The envelope was addressed to “Mr M Wilson” at my home address. That’s...