Impossible Kisses

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all hi...

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. ...

People who read books [ people who read books? ] might know that ‘Orbis Non Sufficit’ is the family motto of James Bond but film buffs, fan...

LIZZIE : I definitely think you’re ‘most poised’ material. MIRANDA : I don’t feel like ‘most’ anything. GORDO : That’s what Kate wants you t...

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Only a couple of miles north of downtown, only a block away from Lake Michigan, there is a skyscraper faced in red granite. Seven hundred no...

Yesterday I posted a little about Mount Shasta . Mount Shasta is in northern California. At something like the opposite end of North Amer...

So I’m a hobo riding the rails. On a freight San Diego way I share a boxcar with Paris Hilton decked out in shabby chic threads. She eats m...

This cartoon isn’t really a standalone cartoon, it’s just a page from my sketchbook. I’m posting it because I like it as much as a real car...

A chimera to a paleontologist is a fake fossil made up from bits and pieces selected from real fossils of various kinds. Large profits can b...

Out on the back porch my telescope is set up. So I am ready. I’ve often looked for Ursa Major’s galaxies. I’ve never seen them. Even on clea...

Wisconsin is not my favorite state but someday I might return to it. Far north in Wisconsin. If the place were a color-by-number fill-in al...

If I had a spaceship—I mean a real spaceship with what science buffs call a reactionless space drive capable of accelerating at 1G for hour ...

Bernadette’s mirror is a mystery to me and Bernadette is a mystery to me, too. Bernadette’s mirror is a thing doing its thing, reflecting me...

Bernadette’s mirror is a mystery to me. Reflections are colors making shapes making scenes, scenes that arrange themselves one against the o...

Bernadette’s mirror is a mystery to me. I’m staring into it. I cannot look away. All the mysteries behind me are so ugly— so endlessly hope...

Bernadette’s mirror is a mystery to me. I’ve looked into it and now I can’t look away. I wonder: Is this the Medusa myth for real? I’ve see...