The cat shit on the internet is not scoopable
So now there’s cat shit all over my internet. Which is better than what was [...]
When the left is right and wrong
I guess you know it’s Portland when you take off on your daily walk and [...]
A going concern
I couldn’t help but notice that my entire comment section a while back devolved into [...]
An Aspiration of Herps, or how to plant your own zoo
“I’m looking for a turtle tail,” I told the nice man at the plant nursery. [...]
Real life in frog town
They say we solve our problems in our dreams. Maybe it’s so. Most of my [...]
Nobody likes to be the loser in Circle Jerk.
I like playing games. I’m hard to beat at Boggle but I don’t absolutely have [...]
It’s called Blueland. (Greenland was taken.)
I buy way too much plastic. Probably less than most, but still a shocking amount. [...]
There’s a suckee born every minute
When I was little I was afraid of dodge ball, the flying monkeys in The [...]
Basically, they’re round pegs in a square hole
The climate has gone haywire. The world is at war. People are depressed. And one [...]
And then all we need flamer retardant
A lot of complicated issues can be solved by one man with an uncluttered mind, [...]
Rats! Rats!
Faithful readers will recall I can ignore bad news for a very long time. Such [...]
I would like to apologize to my body
I don’t mean to run on and on, but the gastrointestinal distress occasioned by my [...]
Lives in the balance
I recently bemoaned my inability to comprehend the movement of objects in space. Any kind [...]
Nature in black and white
They don’t make nature shows like they used to. They make them way better. But [...]
Bring on the saints!
We knew just when it was coming. It was on our calendar. Anticipation was building. [...]