On A Good Robot Dog (or, F1D0 Powers Down)
My robot dog, ten years ago, Could do amazing things; She’d bounce around the house, you know, As if her legs had springs. She’d hide behind a kitchen chair (She’d learned this little quirk) Then bound...
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The Lady Of Innsmouth (or, recasting Lovecraft)
The Lady of Innsmouth enchants with her eyes Though an unblinking gaze she possesses Her beauty is different–perhaps no surprise, She has tentacles rather than tresses! The people of Innsmouth, and...
View ArticleGoodbye, Everybody!
Today is, once again, the end of the world. Coming just days after the world failed to cease as had been suggested on 28 September, Chris McCann of the eBible Fellowship has outlined his predictions in...
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How Can A Cuttlefish Be So Prolific?
Still pen-and-ink, but eight pens at a time. Long story, but below the fold is a commissioned piece by artist Ratna Pappert. I can’t say enough about her (I have other examples of her work in my...
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BPCPL
(that is, Bee Pee Sepielle) By request by Daniel Midgley (wait, *that* Daniel Midgley? Apparently so), a verse about… well, about a rather remarkable photograph. (please do follow the link–I would love...
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An Eerie Parallel. Or Maybe Not.
News accounts of the Trump transition have used terms like “knife fight”, “Game of Thrones”, etc, to characterize the chaos and infighting among the various individuals and groups vying for power in...
View ArticleThanksgiving. 2016.
Thank you, God, for Two-Oh-One-Six— Yes, thank God for one more year; Thank God, empowered racists Won the nation, thanks to fear. But if God should take the credit, God’s to blame, then, if it sucked—...
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It’s Like I Have A Twin…
A reader sends in a pic of a fellow cephalopod-with-quill. Below the jump, so as not to muck around with RSS feeds. Octopus with quill Probably doesn’t write sepielles, though–maybe octets or...
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It’s Like My Twin Has A Twin!
I should have mentioned this days ago, but I am in the midst of a bit of a grading deluge. But anyway, I have a new Twitter avatar (is that what they call them on Twitter? I really don’t know),...
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