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), courtesy of (maybe? I don’t really know) one of you (it wasn’t me), created by the brilliant artist behind Black Mudpuppy, Ethan Kocak (@Blackmudpuppy, on twitter). [Read more…]
A reader sends in a pic of a fellow cephalopod-with-quill. Below the jump, so as not to muck around with RSS feeds. [Read more…]
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—
And if this year is God’s handiwork
Then God can just get fucked. [Read more…]
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 what I assume must be a well-drained swamp. Trump himself dismisses such accounts as bad reporting, insisting that the transition is going smoothly. [Read more…]
(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 to embed the photo, but as a creator of original content, I am becoming a bit of a stickler for credit where it is due; the photographer, Mark Parrott, shouldn’t have his photo spread all over creation without recompense.) The photo shows… well… a bee. Peeing. in flight. It is a remarkable photo, and I really wish I had taken it. I’ve taken scores of pictures of bees, wasps, flies, and the like in my garden, but never an action shot like Parrott’s. [Read more…]
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 office); this one, I hope, will be part of the metaphorical tote bags available when I make my Patreon really public. Truth is, I am only posting this to force myself to do the things I need to do to make that happen. [Read more…]
Today is, once again, the end of the world. [Read more…]
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! [Read more…]
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 out, leaping from her lair
When I returned from work. [Read more…]
