Flying Totems

I remember when I first read Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, I liked the scene where the Gnat tells Alice about the insects found in Looking-Glass Land.

I just started reading Gravity's Rainbow.

It's interesting to learn that maps didn't actually warn "Here be dragons", be it in Latin, English, or any other language.

Helen McCloy wrote her mystery series about Dr.

Okay, so what does make politicians take the 20 side on 20-80 social issues?

...because they had to tell time.

When I was a kid, Dolly Parton jokes were―like a couple of other things―pretty big.

Had a good laugh today on this page of miscellany, and particularly on the explanatory note for the 23-Down clue: The coca plant is native to South America, and is similar in appearance to a blackthorn bush.

Okay, this is the strategy I have for bugs.

Sly Stone hit some lofty heights in the early days of his career.

Let me describe a sliver of a dream I had recently, and the effect it had on me.

In short, this is an unprecedented moment in paleoanthropology.

Science can be cool, when it's not dreary, as it frequently has been in recent years.

If you see a walrus's snout up close you see all these little bristles.

In our souls, we need to know that wild things are out there.

Here's something to see.

I only ever saw the first two episodes of Stranger Things and it didn't really grab me.

Something I read a few years ago and am somewhat heartened to see is still online is a blogger's track-by-track review of The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse, which I think on balance is the best Bonzo Dog Band album.

Here's a sentence you wouldn't have heard fifty, or even twenty years ago.

Rahko is a creature in Finnish mythology.

Say what you want about this: It does prove that the sixties were weird on a level you don't often hear about.

Uh-oh.

Johnny Staccato is an odd duck in TV Land.

"Art of Noise" refers back to both a Futurist manifesto and a British electronic group most influential for the fact that they really weren't a band at all.

I was recently locked out of my email account.