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Dr. Know

Great Grey Horned Owls, you beasts should really not sneak up on people! In the light of my porch you shaved lemurs — what with…


R.I.P-HOP?

If hip hop’s not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap’s just not the…




Life in the Cretaceous Period

As a kid, visiting the Manitoba Museum (then known as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature) was always an adventure. There was the Polar…


DR. Know

Ah genetics. There was a time — quite recently in fact — when I thought that the study of the infinite dimensions, which compose our…


(black) and white face

The world is chock-full of secretaries who exhaust their days processing paper and questioning why they bothered to wax their legs at all when it…


Fried Brains and Sam:

When last we left Sam, he was under house arrest, plotting to end his contract in Heaven by destroying physical reality. Tied to my chair,…


The Reunion

Coerced by fear, I was told to appear naked before My sovereign broham, and his willing peers. “If you don’t like it, find another way…


So Bad it’s Good

In both fetish and fantasy, the “bad girl” is deviant, overtly sexual and dangerous. She is the one of temptresses of the Bible (Salome and…