Lila Prime

John Scalzi 's Starter Villain is a sweet standalone fiction novel. The protagonist is a down-on-his-luck everyman, currently feeling s...

Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

 I have been hunted --- in my own home --- for three days. By a mosquito. It buzzes my ear at night trying to fall asleep, or when I am on t...

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

 Every part of this photo seems to invite fingers to run across it. Ika on Parrish Beach. This post's theme word is talpa (n), either ...

Emily Willingham 's Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis is not what I expected. Based on the cover art and the subtitle, it se...

 After many months of living at the end of a narrow internet pipe, my bits finally stopped flowing (the pipe was blocked? ok, metaphor) and ...

I went outside and discovered a spider had built an extensive web across the rear entrance of my house, spanning the door, deck, and stairs....

There were a lot of landscapers cleaning up this yard, but I walked by too late to see what must have been an incredible Flamingo Setup Peri...

The Philadelphia Zoo is a delightful hotel for assorted animal creatures. It has a lot of humane features, too, like sky-highways of netti...

 These chickens were just out on the sidewalk. Chicken run? More like chicken, lightly wander around. This post's theme word is rutilant...

It's National Moth Week , as you surely already know. I observed the ... week... by going to a moth-viewing event. We heard a little le...

The Victoria and Albert Museum is a beautiful, well-lit, thoughtfully arranged collection of art and art-like objects. It breaks with the ...

Gotta be lobster, I guess. If the lobster were riding a moose, it would be even more Mainish (Mainerly? Mained?). I like this painting st...

Well, not really --- but wolf [statue] on an abandoned piling. Very realistic, lifelike, surprising to notice from the corner of one's e...

A local artist paints many portraits of cats. The storefront window is full of these paintings, and one extremely lifelike statue that I st...

Horror and tension do not appeal to me as fun leisure-time sensations. I don't like  to be scared, and tense cliffhangers are unpleasant...

One month of Saturdays spent, and --- lo! --- a large collection of worn and stained green shirts (plus one old spherical pillow) is transf...

I am intrigued by the chopstick technique presented below. How does a single tentacle control both chopsti...