Impossible Kisses

On an inclined plane a perfectly formed marble accelerates down. Frankenstein’s monster, zombies, werewolves, vampires and Frankenstein hims...

“Right away the huntsman guessed what had happened. ... So he took out his knife and quickly killed the wolf while he lay sleeping. Then ...

If Britney Spears were a bar of soap she would have broken in half by now. We’d have been forced to buy a new bar. But Britney Spears is a b...

I wonder what goes on behind the sky? Fishermen in boats study the shoreline because what they see above the water is sometimes an indicatio...

I saw a pheasant at the end of the alley but never an owl. I saw a beaver in the next alley over but never a fox. In a dream last night I wa...

I haven’t seen a movie worth talking about for some time. Amazingly, Tuesday a new monster snake movie (with David Hasselhoff!) came out on...

Last year a friend and I drove to a nearby suburb to visit their library. They have a cool aquarium there. I wrote about that visit here: ...

I wonder, do stars on cloudy nights look down and wish they could see us? Clouds can look both ways. They can look up at the stars, also dow...

The discussion a few years ago about whether or not Pluto should be called a ‘planet’ missed the most interesting bits about Pluto. The ...

If I could somehow jump into any novel in history as a superhero and save a character doomed by the plot I would jump into Dracula and save ...

When I think of illustrators , I don’t think of comic book artists, I think of children’s books . Hundreds of children’s books are publishe...

Woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! — Ophelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madness in great ones must not ...

And the search—the quest , really—for understanding the outer solar system is still happening right now, every bit as dynamic and even more ...

This weekend will be an interesting and frustrating weekend for astronomy buffs who enjoy observing Neptune . Tonight, 10/10, the Moon will ...

Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse Bad, bad cheese for a deaf, dumb and blind mouse Paris Hilton, Paris Hilton The pinball game in your head is ti...

In my bedroom by the doorway on a table in a glass cup are some paint brushes. They’re standing on their handles, bristles upward. Acrylics...

Over the weekend I watched a MonsterQuest episode about the possibility that remnant populations of prehistoric bears — the short-faced bea...

Even if I were a supervillain and I maintained a nightclub as a front for my nefarious doings, my hunt to conquer the very concept of sin, I...