Month: November 2019

The other night I went to a Dave and Buster’s for a friend’s bachelor party. If you aren’t familiar with the chain, they are a combination restaurant, sports bar, and video game arcade. Think Chuck E. Cheese except more for grown-ups, and serving burgers and chicken wings instead of pizza. It was a lot of…

Not Mesopotamia, the “Cradle of Civilization.” This is all of humanity we’re talking about. Where we first came from. All of us. Black, white, and every shade in-between. Where was it? Africa, of course. Present-day Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. There used to be a huge lake there, and our ancestors flourished there for 70,000 years.…

I don’t cook. Or bake. To me they are one and the same, but I not infrequently get reminded that one “cooks” some things and “bakes” others. What’s the difference? I know you’re supposed to say that you “bake” cookies, pies, and cakes. So you only “bake” things that are sweet? What about “baked” chicken?…

Have you ever heard of Jenny Haniver? Or more properly, have you ever heard of *a* Jenny Haniver? A Jenny Haniver is one of the earliest known gaffes. It is created by taking the desiccated and varnished body of a ray or a skate (a skate is for all intents and purposes a ray as…

Out of the three others, the only one whose name Saint could even come close to pronouncing was “Katchotke” (Saint guessed at the spelling). The others had all introduced themselves, but the recitation of their names had sounded like so much snarling and growling. Songbird, so different from the others in so many ways that…

Did you see the image released by NASA of the sun doing its best impersonation of a jack-o-lantern in honor of Halloween? If not, that’s it accompanying this article. It really is from NASA, though. I wouldn’t want anybody to think I photoshopped it. The image, said NASA, is the result “of an intense and…