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…
Breathing freely now!
You can revisit my abject terror of four years ago in comics like this one and this one and, more relevantly than I’d like, this one. I considered posting something more hopeful today, but I’m still afraid Biden will be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Click to buy my illustrated version of the book of Jonah! I’m super proud of it.