fish without faces

for a while now corvids have been sneaking behind our backs, doing things that only people are supposed to do: making tools , storing up tre...

“Rémora, en latín, es demora. Tal es el recto sentido de esa palabra, que figuradamente se aplicó a la echeneis, porque le atribuyeron la f...

“In a preliminary listing, [Father Zallinger, of the company of Jesus] noted that the Fish was an elusive, gleaming creature that no one had...

“Como el Borametz, la planta llamada Mandrágora confina con el reino animal, porque grita cuando la arrancan; ese grito puede enloquecer a q...

“la esfera es el más uniforme de los cuerpos sólidos, ya que todos los puntos de la superficie equidistan del centro. Por eso y por su facul...

“The Roperite , an animal the size of a pony, has a ropelike beak that it ropes the swiftest of rabbits with. “The head of the Axehandle H...

“When I was about five years old my father happened to be in a basement-chamber of our house, where they had been washing, and where a good ...

lately I’m wondering about toys. here’s what Roland Barthes has to say in his Mythologies . he’s talking specifically about French ones but ...

several years ago I had a rather unpleasant telephone conversation with Mike Waddoups. it wasn’t at all political and pu-lease don’t ask him...

I usually try to resist using the blog here to commentate on other media. I also try to avoid using the word commentate. today I’m making tw...

good news. I found out I don’t have tuberculosis. so you can all calm down. if you’re still having a rough time of it, free grief counseling...

this story from Kodiak Island was a couple weeks ago and so is really no longer news . but I think it’s still a handy allegory for presiden...