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Great White Shark Lunching! (Not For The Faint of Heart)
There once was a seal from Nantucket whose butt was as big as a bucket. A shark bit it off, proceeded to cough, then onto the beach he did chuck it. (I really feel for the poor seal. Only half…
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And So It Begins … Or Continues
The issue of AI-generated “news” sources cribbing content from traditional media sources in order to program their fakety-fake intelligence has spurred a big lawsuit already. Who did not see this one coming? Just wait until things get REALLY messy. (And…
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Our Lady of Perpetual Pizza
Just when I thought cockamamie Roman Catholic devotional scams couldn’t get any greasier, here comes Our Lady of the Perpetual Pizzas. (That what I have dubbed this “Lady,” anyhow.) I have observed some truly asinine private devotional phenomena geared toward…
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“Giant” is No Longer Good Enough for the Colossal Squid
Why so rare to encounter? Because their elusiveness drives up calamari prices, they know this, and they want to make people pay the COLOSSAL dollars to eat them with dijon dipping sauce. [Look for Jonathan Kieran’s fabulous new—as yet untitled—book…
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They Grow ‘Em Big In Canada
In case you have never explored the astonishingly beautiful geography around Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula, a trip should be high on your list of manageable explorations for the future. Maritime lifestyles have never looked so quaint and picturesque as they do…
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Insult to Injury
When was the last time you saw a REALLY entertaining film made by this gentleman? If it takes you a minute or two to come up with an answer, please rest assured that his daughter will apparently continue the tradition…
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Great White Sharks Spotted in Droves Off San Diego Nude Beach
Good. The less packaging the better for a sustainable environment. Straight from “farm” to triangular serrated tooth. [Look for Jonathan Kieran’s fabulous new—as yet untitled—book of hundreds of witty, cynical, zeitgeist-rocking, and knee-slappingly clever cartoons of Pure Smartassery in 2024!…
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Lovably Bad Kids’ TV On-The-Cheap: Mr. Dressup!
TODAY’S DUBIOUS HONOREE: MR. DRESSUP (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1967-1996) GUILTY OF VEHICULAR FANSLAUGHTER: Ernie Coombs (Canada’s answer to Mr. Rogers … only a lot more caffeinated and likely to bounce off the cardboard walls) RUDIMENTARY ANALYSIS: Nothing touches the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for producing…
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Transformation and Plus ca Change …
METAMORPHOSES Apuleius (translation by E.J. Kenney*) Penguin Classics Edition Though I tend to eschew the once noble and now tragically democratized art of “professional” book reviewing, the occasional exception is made for some vaunted pillar of the past that gleams…
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Ixnay On The Ornshay and Sheet
What the hell is with the exponentially slavering obsession with bestowing bigger, badder, freakier Baphomet-style horns on every freaking fantasy/horror creature or character in today’s already horn-glutted entertainment culture? I’m barely recovered from years of seeing wraith-waisted Angelina Jolie’s ginormous…
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