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I am disappoint
The Corso Magenta in Genoa is not that colour after all. Also too, on the way to the flight home from Malpensa Airport I stayed one night on the Via Porpora, which turned out not to be be...
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We're going to need a bigger Bag of Dicks...
...the New Zealand election is approaching.1936 of them ought to be enough.On close inspection, they appear to be uncircumcised.
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Then the lightning flashing (flashing crashing)Fireworks shooting up in her head
Lightning, according to Heraclitus, can never strike the same river twice. Unless I am thinking of Empedocles who provided empirical proof that you cannot step in the same crater of molten lava twice....
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The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions a layer of mashed potato,...
Life continues to imitate a 'Two Ronnies' skit:Police are asking motorists to keep their eyes peeled.Two victims of potato dumpingIn fact "State Highway 1 blocked by spudspill" is a recurring event,...
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Poison's in my bloodstream, poison's in my pride
In the drunken aftermath of "Leonard Cohen Karaoke and Dendrogramma enigmatica Affiliations in Bilateralia Night" at the Old Entomologist, the conversation turned (as it so often does) to the...
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Peripatus, little peripatus Peripatus, my panarthropod It will cover you with...
The Riddled competition this week is for the best new lyrics for Carmina Burana, replacing "O Fortuna" with "Peripatus". Instead of the usual road-kill hotpot from Mrs Miggins, first prize is increased...
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Four engines burning Over the USA (#2)
Seen in Budapest, in the Danube Court of romantic Buda Castle.I had not previously encountered the concept of Drone Wedding Photography, but the Great Gazoogle assures me that in the US at least, it is...
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Tales from the White Art
"The Why Tart?" I said. "I do not rate for question-marks as an ingredient in desserts; or indeed any other kind of punctuation mark. Colons and exclamation marks give me Irritable Vowel Syndrome. It...
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And as the city glows, electric people nobody knows Electric dreams, nobody...
A few weeks ago over at B4 there happened to be a discussion about bio-fluorescence and Brainbows, and the good name of the Riddled Research Institute and Mad Scientist Anti-Defamation League was...
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Insect Human
The Van Dusen Meditation Garden was closed when I was there (or so it seemed) due to the distractions and the phantasmic eidolons of Samsāra.OK, Phantasmic eidolons. And the veils of Māyā. And fire...
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Upward behind the onstreaming it mooned badly
At some point in the last few years, journamalists stopped promising "lunar eclipses" and took to calling them "blood moons" instead. It is as if they are following the lead and accepting the framing...
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Speaking of Bad Moons Rising
Some cheeky researchers snuck this eye-opening diagram into a highly-respected journal,* as Figure 4 in their paper on mitochondrial function and regulation:H/t to Paul Brooks, commenting at...
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Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up and down again! There’s no discharge in the...
The phrase "boots on the ground" can have positive connotations, e.g. when footwear is air-dropped to the occupants of a poor nation (along with tools and medical equipment) in order to help the locals...
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N-sane in the membrane
"The N gland," I suggested, "was named thus by analogy with Blondlot's N-rays.""Speaking of mysterious glands," tigris said, "remember Pishinger's Space?""It is akin to the Schade Organ," I said."I...
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Because the Intertubes need more Groaci.
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My new Skype avatar
Thanks to Riddled a-mi-goJeffrey Beall.Oddly enough, corn smut featured elsewhere on the Interlattice just the other day. Incidentally, let the record show that not all intelligent fungi reproduce by...
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Memo to the Marketing Department
The proposed label for the Christmas Hopped Winterstipple Scrumpy did not go down well with last night's Unfocus Group at the Old Entomologist. Needs work.
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Antisocial media
Hey monkey boy! Those annoying Tonkinese kittens from the next street over have their own FB page for their friends to Like!You're cats. You don't have friends, only resources.It is not good enough....
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Oxygè'en
There appears to be a dearth of Jean Michel Jarre-themed pumpkin carving on the Interlattice, so I am stepping in to fill the gap.Here Wassilissa the Beautiful uses the carved pumpkin as the...
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"What's it like to live inside your head?""Oh...! Think of a haunted house!"
A previous installment of the Riddled Cumulative Encyclopaedia of As-Any-Fule-Knoledge touched lightly upon the topic of Novelty Head-shaped Dollhouses. These are not so popular as they once were for...
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