Category: Humor

Funny things

Lick It Up

Don’t you hate when that happens?

Space Oddity

Todd Alcott re-creates old SF pulp covers into homages to David Bowie songs. You can buy his work on etsy.com.

Zombies on Broadway

“Break a leg! Break off an arm, too!”

News from Planet LoCarb

I receive a smorgasbord of robot-generated spam on this site, most of which I delete. But every once in a while a receive a gem so perfect, so diamond-like in its sheer garbled incompetentness, that I have to share it. This one read like a randomly constructed SF novel. He was still stuck on thats …

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Marie Antoinette

“What, me worry?”

Santa Horror

Since the 18th century, when images of Santa Claus began to be disseminated through newspapers, books, and periodicals, his appearance has changed quite a bit. Often those earlier depictions are a tad grotesque, as much for what was considered appealing at the time as the skill of the artist and the means of reproduction. When …

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Speak no Evil

When the Princess spoke kindly, pearls and roses would drop from her lips. But when she cursed, fowl serpents emerged. As she was a lover of salty language, the palace was soon full of snakes. But the Princess didn’t mind. She also had a yen for snakeskin.

An Alien’s Truth

A piece of street art in Brazil. You dig?

Hansel and Gretel 2018

Modern witches design their huts differently to attract small children.  

Worldbuilding Wednesday 10/31/18: Gothic Mansions

  It’s Halloween. And what better way to celebrate than by visiting a spooky old mansion? Old castles, manses, and abbeys are a mainstay of Gothic literature. Manderlay, in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, is practically its own character, along with its housekeeper. And who can forget “The Great House of Collinwood” mentioned at the beginning …

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