Game of Groans: George RR Martin Health in Question
George RR Martin pontificates on his unique style of writing Obsessive Game of Thrones fans are truly worried about their beloved author, George RR Martin. Why? Well, he … Read more
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Not Exactly The Emerald City
A newly minted University graduate with a degree in music has been reduced for the nonce to playing cowbell for an unappreciative audience of birds.
Jamie Fox spends all day in a farmer’s field, dressed all in orange…
Vikings Land in Australia
Police and local rangers on Elcho Island in the Northern Territories of Australia were somewhat surprised when the received reports of a Viking longboat off shore.
“With swords drawn, it was establish…
Human-Powered Flight: The Helicopter
I don’t know what it is about human-powered flight that fascinates me so. Maybe it’s because I first heard the legend of Icarus when I was very young. I know that I am not alone in this though, else there would not be things lik…
Is It Safe?
In the nearly eleven years since the events of September eleventh 2001 the United States has embarked upon somewhere between two and seven wars, depending on how one defines one’s conflicts in this brave new wor…
Whale-Eating Sea Gulls
Sea gulls off the coast of Argentina have lately taken to taking a bite out of Southern Right Whales when they breach to take on air. This opens a wound for them to tear a few chunks of meat from before the whale submerges. The…
Not a Light, But a Place
I remember that day in July of ’69 so well. Grandmother had passed barely month before and I thought it a great pity that she had missed that moment when Mr. Armstrong first set foot upon the moon. She had told me of torchlight parades for McKi…
NASA Does a Class Act
The landing site of the Rover “Curiosity” has officially been names after the late Science Fiction author, Ray Bradbury.
The Twitter feed from Curiosity read “In tribute, I dedicate my landing spot on Mars to…
Pub For Sale, Pig Included
Be warned though, this little piggy likes a pint.
Pyangana’s Pub is on the market with an asking price of $800,000 (Au) or about $840,000 US. It come with a fair sized tract of land and the pub’s pig, Pinky. Pinky is the Progeny…
Nightmare, With Angels
Looking at the drought withered corn belt and the shrinking polar ice cap on the net while we wait to vote on GMO labeling in our food my mind keeps turning back to a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Nightmare, With Angels
by Stephen Vi…
