Everyone thought they’d figured out the village idiot. Silly creature, mutated and ugly, prone to falling off walls. Someone to be pitied, to be mocked, or to be ignored. In a way more akin to an animal – probably part animal, anyway. Always talking to his pet lizard. Where did …
It’s been a bit slower than usual around here. The reason for that is that I’ve been struggling to keep going emotionally. I tend not to mention most of the stuff that goes on in my life, because I hate whining and trying to get everyone’s attention, but there’s been …
Another excellent Christmas song by the great Tim Minchin. With many accurate details about Jesus!
Yes indeed. Look at the pretty icons. And click on them. If you want to. They won’t be offended if you don’t. Well, maybe a little. Maybe they’ll set your hat on fire and turn your nipples into squirrel cannons. Who knows? Icons are such unpredictable creatures. Anyway. My hope …
There is a city in the depths of the sea, built measureless aeons ago by forces unknown, that is called by the name of R’lyeh. Many stories are told about it, and many terrible moments of its history remembered, but too few now have a clear understanding of its nature …
I was going to write a long, detailed post about Christopher Hitchens, a person of some intelligence who used his skills for the most detestable of purposes and who is now being hailed as a great man by entirely too many supposed progressives. Conveniently forgotten or dismissed as “just a …
Nobody knew much about the Fish With No Name. Some said he was from a faraway place called Illinois, but that’s all anyone had ever heard about his background. He rarely spoke; mostly because he had no vocal cords, communicating instead via mime. Sometimes people called him Goldie, but that …
They say Billy the Squid killed twenty-six men. They say he was a mad and violent squid who liked to kill. They say he was a thief and a robber, no better than the Catus siblings. They say he was dangerous and volatile squid who would shoot you in the …
Of all the bandits and train robbers in the long and bloody history of the railroad, none were so feared as Neo and Báy B. Catus. Entire armies had to be enlisted to protect trains running through the areas they were known to frequent – and those areas were many, …
