I’ve started getting spam from organizations claiming to be charities engaged in helping the people of Japan. They’re lying, of course.  They’ll keep the money and laugh at you while dancing on the corpses of the tsunami’s victims. I’m sure that everyone reading this knows enough to treat this sort of solicitation with the contempt […]

So the artist Ward Shelley has achieved a degree of celebrity in our tribe through his painting, in which he managed to encapsulate the history of science fiction in a graphic that seems to otherwise depict  a couple of Lovecraft monsters having sex. Or maybe it’s a bagpipe turned inside-out. But I’d like to point […]

Once again I’ve been slogging through hundreds of inadequately-labeled bits of paper in an effort to get my taxes in good enough shape for the accountant to make sense of them.   And once again, I’ve been watching action films in order to make the time pass, if not more quickly, at least with more entertaining […]