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Monthly Archives: July 2010
On Another Note 4: Investigate the Portuguese Man o’ War
Take a little gander at this siphonophore. “While the Portuguese Man o’ War resembles a jellyfish, it is in fact a siphonophore – a colony of four kinds of minute, highly modified individuals, which are specialized polyps and medusoids. Each such zooid in these pelagic colonial … Continue reading
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Tagged jellyfish, on another note, portuguese man o' war, siphonophore, the ocean, wikipedia
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‘Re’duction: a theoretical discussion of the prefix ‘re-’
Having no other eventful thing to write about, I give you this little paper I wrote for a Linguistics course in 2008. The prefix re-, in English, attaches to transitive verbs and alters their meaning so that the definition becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged big bang, English, linguistics, literature, Mr. Nonsense, nonsense, onions, papers that received an A+, reduction
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Unicorn Knight Fight Publishes its First Ever Short Story
“What shot from the barrel was not a bullet but a word, big blocky font emerging one letter at a time like a scrolling headline … the word ONOMATOPOEIA traveling faster than sound toward the pilot’s head…” My new little … Continue reading
Posted in Unicorn Knife Fight
Tagged Andrew Adams, Knife-fights, Onomatopoeia, Unicorn, Unicorn Knife Fight, webzine, whales
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On Another Note 3: Munch Munch
Jing Wei Studios, you have captured my heart.
Lost in Cat Brain Land
Here is the exquisite little stuffed cat I made for Cameron Pierce‘s newest book: Lost in Cat Brain Land. It has brains and a tentacle coming out of its stomach. The tentacle ends in a cat paw. Lost in Cat … Continue reading
Posted in Bits, Other Things You Should Read
Tagged Cameron Pierce, cat, crafts, dead cat, Fiction, Lost in Cat Brain Land, other things you should read, Pierce, Review, sewing
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Other Things You Should Read 7: Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland
I have already instructed everyone in the whole world to read Carlton Mellick III‘s strange and wonderful books. I like them more and more. The great thing about these books is that although they contain awkward and bizarrely pornographic scenes, … Continue reading
On Another Note 2…
Oh No!
The Love Embrace of the Universe
Someone, at least, is being honest about creating art, and that is Frida Kahlo. This woman’s paintings are mind-stretching. And her glorious face is the focus of all of them. It’s not because the entire universe is made of Frida’s, … Continue reading
How I wish I was in the Twilight Zone
“Now the questions that come to mind. Where is this place and when is it? What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm? You want an answer? The answer is, it doesn’t make any … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizarro, Eye of the Beholder, Fiction, Horror, Laserdisc, Rod Serling, TV, Twighlight Zone
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
“Dream Fever: n. the intense heat on the skin of a sleeping person, a radioactive byproduct of an idle mind humming with secret delusions which then vaporize when plunged into the cooling bath of reality, thus preventing a meltdown that could … Continue reading
