Sharkey’s pledge to impale President Bush, he makes clear, will only come into effect if he is actually elected to office.

Many self-professed vampires actively resent the term “lifestylers,” as this tends to carry the connotation that vampirism is not real.

The Gray Mouse’s meditation chamber was done in a style Jürgen thought of as “Temple of Hate.”

This is the first rap inspired by a children’s book on indefinite life extension.

Some of the males 18-32 were so out of place that they seemed to have warped in from the Land of Faerie, and had the organizers wondering whether they should summon the police.

In practice, however, I did not narrowly limit myself to salt water; here and there, my readers will also encounter lakes, rivers and canals.

He’d still be a helicopter, but lined with fur.

They are complete opposites. And yet, they have one thing in common: they – like everyone else – are made of molecules.

Another thing that attracted the virulent hostility of the Khmer Rouge: people wearing glasses.  Spectacles were to be confiscated and destroyed on the spot, and their owners arrested and sent to labour camps to await eventual execution, on the suspicion that they were educated and therefore belonged to the oppressor class.

The Age of Discovery was marked by some of the great early talents, many of whom still stand among the best. Roy Neal Grissom, our beloved Enduring Man-Child, put out some of the best, funniest and most clever work I’ve read anywhere, period.