Here’s another picture from our 2012 calendar.  This is the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th Century AD. I’d say it’s holding up pretty well. The photo gives you an idea why the Turks call the cistern the “Sunken Palace.”   It’s the size of a cathedral, with the […]

Once again, by way of sharing our adventures with our friends, we’ve published a calendar. This one, interestingly enough, is for 2012.  Why, that’s next year! You’ll probably need a calendar for that.  You might as well have this one. Once again, I make no money from this.  I just make calendars out of the […]

Martin Scorsese directing a fantasy?  A fantasy with a juvenile protagonist?  A fantasy with a juvenile protagonist based on a Caldecott Award-winning children’s book in which absolutely no one is stabbed in the jugular with a kitchen knife to spray gallons of blood over the scenery?  Say it ain’t so, Marty! Yeah, it’s so. Despite […]

If you’ve been fretting about the end of the world (which, for those of you still waiting for Y2K, has been rescheduled for 2012), you can now rest easy. If, that is, you own an Invisible Mystic Mayan Power Cloak. The Mayan Power Cloak not only guarantees that you will survive the arrival of Bolon […]