Only certain people are fit to undertake a journey to the moon, says the voice, and here I quote verbatim: “Especially suited are dried-up old crones who since childhood have ridden over great stretches if the earth at night in tattered cloaks on goats or pitchforks.”

Peregrine FitzRoy-Tapps pointed out an enormous armchair beneath a photograph of a pair of elephant tusks.  All the pictures in the room were of tusks, horns, stuffed heads and rifles in trophy cases.  FitzRoy-Tapps was vaguely diagonal in shape.  Those visible parts of him that came in twos, like eyes, ears, shoulders and hands, seemed to be arranged at slightly varying elevations, each to each.

Formerly a National Geographic Channel reporter, Istvan frequently appears on television and currently writes for Vice, Gizmodo, Huffington Post, Slate, and others. He’s also the inventor of “volcano boarding.”

Perhaps our toads may be more to your liking.  Our toads count dead flies all day long.

Meanwhile the guardian angel, entirely unconscious of apotheosis, sat in the little flat in Chelsea blissfully eating crumpets over which Emmy had spread the preposterous amount of butter which proceeds from an overflowing heart.

In August 1997, UFOland – built by the Raëlians as the largest structure in North America made out of bales of hay – opened on their Valcourt estate.

There was something about waste material that defied systematic naming.  It was as though the many infantile names for fecal matter and urine were concessions to the fact that the real names (whichever these were) possessed a secret power that inhibited all but the most ceremonial utterance.

A Fan’s Notes is a sardonic account of mental illness, alcoholism, insulin shock therapy and electroconvulsive therapy, and the black hole of sports fandom.

A dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest.

Reginald Edward Morse writes reviews on RateYourLodging.com, yet they aren’t just about the quality of hotel beds and room service – but his life.