Frankenstein’s Lady Monster

The original trailer for The Bride of Frankenstein promised “a lifetime of entertainment in two hours”, but the final edit of the film was seventy-five minutes long. Historians explain this by noting that people didn’t live as long back then. ♀ The director of the film (James Whale) and a psychiatrist selected 44 simple words […]

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Free Will, a Rant

God created free will so he wouldn’t get blamed for everything. It’s an attractive philosophy: Everything in the universe is subject to physical laws except us when we shoplift a candy bar or bite someone for laughing at our hat. You can’t have sin without free will and religion is built on the concept of […]

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Google FAQs on Frogs

Why is my frog stiff and not moving?  Often, a calcium-deficiency will cause symptoms like that.  If your frog gets plenty of calcium, he might just be “planking”. What species of frog can freeze solid and then come back to life?  Canada’s Zombie Wood Frog survives Canadian winters by freezing solid and then reviving.  As […]

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Random Depressing Thoughts

The only thing worse than being laughed at during sex is being laughed at instead of sex. ◌ If I feel I’m not up to a task, I’ll break it into smaller tasks and then explain why I can’t do each of those. ◌ I fear that, when I finally manage to start my own […]

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