Say what you want to about Romanians. But they sure do have a sense of humor about dying. Well, at least they do in the tiny little burg of Sapanta. When its residents pass away, they are lampooned for all eternity. I think this is what you call adding insult…
Being a corpse in Beijing is hard work. Call me an old fashioned capitalist, but I believe that a grueling day of labor deserves good pay. Oh, you don’t think being a corpse is hard work, do you? Well, I’ve seen people lined up at job fairs, I’ve seen people…
Do you have a problem with trespassers and vagrants always congregating on your lawn? Do you wish you could just make all of these ordinance-disobeying hooligans go away? Well now you can. Apparently, nothing keeps litter, the homeless, and neighborhood kids off your lawn like some good, old-fashioned, run of…
I’ve always dreamed about spreading my awful word prose around the galaxy, and now my wishes can be fulfilled. I have answered the call from NASA to become an intergalactic poet. NASA is launching its MAVEN spacecraft to Mars in November, 2013. The probe will examine why the red planet…
Would you come to my funeral and cry if I paid you? Funerals are supposed to be dismal and depressing. We’re told the dead are in a better place, or their passing was for the best because they were suffering. Many people like to remind us that the recently-deceased are…
Can you name the mad scientist in your town? You can’t? Well Asheville, North Carolina, definitely had a mad scientist, and his name was Bob Moog. Old black and white photos show the man in his youth, hair disheveled, transistors and diodes and wires hanging all around his laboratory. He…
Science has promised us the coming of Virtual Reality (VR) for years. More like decades. It will be a totally immersive experience, filling up our minds and senses and bodies with fantastic and impossible scenarios. In fact, when you step into this technology, you will no longer be able to…
Bureaucracy ruined my childhood. Perhaps it ruined yours too. Without it, we probably all would’ve had more fun. And what’s wrong with that? Apparently, somewhere in the Dark Ages, high school administrators got together and conspired that their main job was to keep kids from having fun, especially on school…
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Featuring movie essays from the Head Monsters of SML and others that explore our love for horror cinema! Published by the Collinsport Historical Society.
