Folks, after more than twenty years in this business I can tell you that much of bad writing comes down to lack of confidence. Lack of confidence in what? In any of the three things involved in writing: yourself, your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Governor William Bradford is (I am told) a predecessor of mine on my mother’s side. He’s also the guy who forbade public Christmas celebrations in Plymouth colony, so maybe my curmudgeonly attitude toward Christmas is genetic. I admit I have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I see this one with surprising frequency. I assume it’s a sign that the writer knows she’s not conveying strangeness adequately but doesn’t want to fix the problem by actually describing the situation. But using fancier words doesn’t fix bad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you haven’t heard about this already, yes, Verizon et al. are trying to break net neutrality again. In a textbook case of the fox guarding the henhouse, the president put their pal Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry, folks. I went a few days without using my light box in the morning. I won’t do that again, at least not until after the solstice.
Rattus norvegicus, as you may know, really is called the Norway rat, as well as the sewer rat or brown rat. It has an airtight alibi for the fourteenth-century Black Death, because it was not yet in Europe at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not always easy to tell, but Rattus rattus there is distinct from the little friends one generally sees in the United States; those are R. norvegicus, the Norway rat, which is from Asia and not Norway at all. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Read about it in the local news here.
The art for this comic was stolen from Vlad’s previous appearance in Small Peculiar.
