I’m editing a business book, so this is, as they say in business books, top of mind. Now, it is sometimes appropriate to use individual as a noun, usually when you’re making a specific contrast between a single person and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It has absolutely nothing to do with today’s comic, but I just recently learned that George Harrison’s “Got My Mind Set on You” is a cover of a 1963 song by a singer named James Ray of whom I had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For all you new Small Peculiarteers out there, every year for Passover I berate a cat for not properly respecting the seder, the ceremonial meal at which Jews retell the story of the liberation from slavery in Egypt. It started[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More adventures with the nameless goldfish. I got a scare recently when one of them spent some time on its side, so I’ve decided to get serious about water quality. This involves a lot of fiddling with tiny test tubes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I see I last played this card about two years ago. Once every two years seems reasonable. Sometimes a person has to edit an entire Japanese light novel and an entire magazine in ten days, you know?
Greetings, authors. I am the copyeditor, here to ask if you are trying to be funny. I can’t tell, you see, because all joy has drained from my life. I dwell in the darkness under the floorboards and can continue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You may remember my hideous benign growth from a few weeks ago. I’ve been taking drugs to shrink it for a couple of months. As for Frühjahrsmüdigkeit, I don’t think it’s a real phenomenon, but the Germans believe in it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Formerly. The golden teenager is of course my nephew, who is still just a little bit blond.
I haven’t done a Valentine’s Day thing in a while. In fact, I think the last one was ten years ago, and there was one the year before that.
This was originally a longer idea incorporating Nazi pseudoscientific ideas, but I couldn’t confirm any of the really good ones, like Himmler thinking he was descended from a witch or Hess using magnets to deflect Jewish magic. Which is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…