I like a really sharp knife. The model I favor at the moment is an ancient black blade called Oud Zwart Blad. The history of this knife is fraught with legend. A team of highly trained blind geishas smelted and hand purified the iron ore of an asteroid hurled to the earth by an angry Jimmy Page. The pig iron … [continue]

I was returning to my editorial lair after the successful procurement of office supplies, 6 lbs PBR and 2 lbs green bananas, when something magical happened. I was given a little gift in the hopes that it might make me more favorably inclined, or at least aware, of a coming attraction. Namely “Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief” which is … [continue]

Greetings drone and greetings to your great collective, particularly to your Queen, may her egg pouch never run empty. So you have come at last to speak with Les the Elder, but what can this ancient tell that a million minds in concert do not already know? Ah, well that is indeed an old story.  To tell it I must … [continue]

Gather round children and listen to an ancient tale of dark days and darker deeds. I speak of the time before the Green Queen selected her first drones and formed the benevolent and all-knowing hive mind. Go back even further to the days before the retreat of the great ice and the formation of the Amniotic Sea, before even the … [continue]

Leslie the elder is an ancient man who has achieved a degree of immortality by bonding to giant sequoia. His long years of life and currant state of quiet contemplation have allowed him a certain degree of perspective and wisdom. The power of his mind is such that he is able to impart some small portion of his knowledge to … [continue]