Awww, Futtocks!

We are in Italy. We should learn Italian, no? Instead, my friend Tim called me the other morning in the wee hours his time and asked me, ‘How are your futtocks, old man?’ Bemused and caught a little off guard …

Superman! (I am not…)

Phone booths I am old enough to remember phone booths. You may not be. Your loss since I’m about to expound on them, briefly. Commonplace in cities around the world until the 2000s, phone booths housed many indecencies, including dirty …

Anchoring Anthropology

Context Setting the anchor is a skill. It is a combination of knowledge, practice, and technology. Entire books have been written about anchoring. Petabytes of online discussion forums have been consumed by the topic. Hundreds of thousands of seadog-years have …

Orders o’ th’ Captain

Editor’s Note This document dates from the 18th century. It discusses how a pirate ship ‘The Fagend’ [sic] dealt with a disease identified here as ‘Plague-19’. Captain Diarmid “Blunderbuss” Pew was one of the most notorious and ruthless Borborygme pirates. …

Perfect Vision

It’s a new year and a new decade. With 20/20 foresight here are our top 10 predictions: Psychiatrists will define a pathological fear of St. Nicholas as Claustrophobia. Orbiting NASA scientists working on zero gravity experiments will accidentally wipe out …

Piles of Too

Position: 36° 9′ 40”N 5° 20′ 53”W Hi Guys! Marlon here. Or should I say, Hola chicos – Marlon aqui! Things are going pretty well here in Spain. I’ve got to say, there are lots of dogs here and they …

Limericks

Position: 41° 47′ 37”N, 87° 34′ 51”W Back in June I mentioned my late father Kenneth’s love of humour and especially his love of limericks. At his memorial service in Chicago a couple of weeks ago I told one of …