Enter the Santilliverse
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"Why is it," I wondered at last Thursday's Fakemusic Appreciation and Extreme Fondue Night at the Old Entomologist, "that 'umlaut' is spelled without an umlaut? And 'diphthong' is spelled without a...
View ArticleThey give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night...
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View ArticleSongs for the 10 Voices of the Two Prophets
Here at the Riddled Institute of Empirical Aesthetics and High-Gravity Poultry-Keeping, we keep track of well-intended acts of vandalism wrought by plonkers and loombuckets with delusions of artistic...
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In another chance to use the "Nothing of Value was Lost" meme, the Archives of Applied Medicine Journal website is non-responsive. This will come as a relief to victims of relentless stalkerish...
View ArticleAnd they call him, Quicklime Boy
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story.At their pinnacle, Hindu spirituality and...
View ArticleRound in circles like the ArchersAlways stiff or always starchy
I am the first to concede that ground hemp-seeds have a place as an adjunct to fermentation, and that place is in Lithuanian farmhouse beers. I cannot muster the same enthusiasm for putting them in...
View ArticleHaemophilia is, like enlargement of the prostate, an exclusively male...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story.How did the Chinese epidemic of prostate...
View ArticleCrisis actors of Busytown
Collateral impactOne of our duties here at the Riddled Research Laboratory and Reality Maintenance Studio is removing on-line copies of the First Encyclopedia of Tlön [Orbis Tertius]. The Library...
View ArticleSimilar energy
Left: John Holmes, 1974.Right: Arthur Tress, "The Singing Chair", 1977.The 1970s were the heydays of human / furniture hybridisation. No-one knows why.
View ArticleSometimes a Great Lotion
I am to be unmasked! This is just tiresome, after all that time I spent learning to control the musculature of my current mask to produce "smile" expressions that are sufficiently convincing as not to...
View ArticleChocolate Bunnymas 2021.
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View ArticleQuinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,Rowing home to haven in sunny...
The conception:The practical realisation:
View ArticleSuffering convictions on a two-way stretch insideThe air in here is pretty...
Letter to Radio Yerevan:Is it true that David Noakes learned of the mystic molecule GcMAF and its all-curative properties from one Ian Crane holding forth at a meeting in 2009 (convincing him that a...
View ArticleThe stage becomes a ship in flames Welcome to our holeThrow your body...
 One of the voices in the back of my head has spent the last two hours singing the lyrics of "Spirit" to the tune of "Get a Grip on Yourself" and then vice versa.Don't make me pull over and stop the...
View ArticleThe papers are coming from inside the house!
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story, and division into subsections.So the...
View ArticleOne ruler to ring them all
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story.Please admire these flow-cytometry...
View ArticleI can read your mind like a magazine I see where you're at I know what you...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story, and by additional Xin Yan flim-flam &...
View ArticleThe papers are coming from inside the house! #2 Jilin edition
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story, and by details of Jilin faculty who frauded...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian Connection
We begin with the disturbing news that 'Scandia' - a small but respected Scandiwegian history journal - acquired an evil doppelgänger, without even a Van Dyke beard to distinguish it from the original....
View ArticleThen we engineered a wild reunion In a Berlin Alleyway
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story. Also by his own inquiries into Professor...
View ArticleCycle of cells
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame story.Here is a September 2020 retraction from...
View ArticleFarewell Mrs Spat
She was the best cat ever. I will always miss her unique feline perspective on things, and her important role as an alarm clock. She was the third best thing in my life after the Frau Doktorin and the...
View ArticleDetritus / Wee Dude / Fairypoo Pumpkinpie / Little Princeling. 2009-2024
Enjoying his sunhouse for the last time.Now reunited with his big floofy girlfriend. He will not feel cold again.The Doktorling found photographs of the Little Princeling in his prime.
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