• Dinner with Ginger

    Chlorine perfume in the air Burns the eyes out– Nothing to see there. Pinprick Needle in Taped down a s l o w d r i p o f Vitriolic oil For a treat. Rub a little salt Into the old wounds Once in a while To preserve the meat.

  • Sea Dart

    If Jules Verne had invented an airplane, it would look like the Convair F2Y Sea Dart.  It’s easy to imagine this small, delta-winged fighter being carried in a water-tight hangar on the Nautilus, ready to launch against any threatening krakens or the Loch Ness Monster.  It is less easy to imagine why the Navy thought …

  • Laphroaig Quarter Cask

    Still must I hear? — shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, And I not sing, lest, haply, Scotch reviews Should dub me scribbler, and denounce my muse? Prepare for rhyme — I’ll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. I’m neither English nor a …

  • Walking on the Moon

    On July 20th, 2012, forty-three years will have passed since the crew of Apollo 11 became the first humans to set foot on the moon.  The event was viewed live on television by over 500 million people. The live broadcast on CBS with Walter Cronkite: It is my opinion that this event is, and will remain, the peak …