Why You Should Give the Gift… of Eels

When giving eels, put some young ones in the package and some fake plastic young eels, because everyone loves an elvers impersonator… If the recipient has no room in his refrigerator, any cylindrical storage will do. I keep my eels in an umbrella stand. Eels secrete a lot of mucus which can be a godsend […]

Leftovers Part 2: The Seduction of Ingrid Leftover

She complained that I was being pedantic. I replied, “Well, not exactly”. The pig-footed bandicoot went extinct in the 1950s. I like to think that, if I’d been there to stop it, I probably would’ve gotten distracted and let it happen anyway. Astronomers have spent a lot of time and effort to determine the origins […]