stick with the beasts we got plz #2: the CATOBLEPAS

Body of a buffalo, head of a hog, gaze and/or breath deadly, weeps constantly: Pliny the Elder said it wz sluggish, its head so heavy it cannot lift it from the ground. Desperate explanationists s[…]

The pig is one of the most versatile animals in the kitchen (pork, sausage, bacon, scratchings, ears, trotters, rilettes, belly, all manner of fat-based goodness) and for this alone we love it. But its uses in rhetoric are almost as broad.
Greed is t[…]

centaurs are classically portrayed as noble and amazing (if occasionally super-horny): but i have always found em ANNOYING!!i. look at them they are top-heavy at the front = when they gallop they will fall on their facesii. they have TOO MANY LIMBS =[…]

Top? What does that mean? Cutest? Best in a fight? Most legs? Apparently our scientific method needs nothing as impecunious as a yardstick – these animals are top. That’s all you need to know.
Perhaps the absence of criteria hides a mess […]

Very unpleasant. Also in the pub last night the glaring flaw in this rhyme was once again dredged up viz. why, casting around for the natural enemy of a dog, does the old woman settle on a horse?
Unless she just likes horse, of course.[…]

No, really…[…]

As well as being sources of comfort and food for man, animals are also an endless source of wacky news stories. Only yesterday there was a story about a gorilla signing at women keepers to show him their breasts, and today brings us Snake eats own ta[…]

In February 2005, Blog 7 was all about L.O.V.E. love.[…]

The thing here is, those professions which score best are those professions that are all about making other people feel directly and immediately happier. Unless you’re an army hairdresser shaving conscripts, I suppose.[…]

Last lesson on a Friday is woodwork. In the workshop, thick with sawdust and the piercing whine of a circular saw, my heart is jumping. I am thirteen and have a date. Lisa is in my English class. She looks a little like Clare Grogan and that’s […]