There’s excitement a-cloven-foot for the Ann Vendermeer and Jeff Vandermeer’s forthcoming Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. The Manticore? Not kosher. Kosher? The Vegetable Lamb of…
In this several months-long absence, I’ve been plugging away at my book manuscript in hopes of an October submission. I’m ahead of schedule, but getting…
By now, you’ve probably all seen Obama’s fly-killing prowess. You may have also heard about PETA’s much-mocked response: But now People for the Ethical Treatment…
How does the cliché go? “Being a blogger means never having to say you’re sorry”? Brooklyn College begins its semester today (and before your jealous…
I’m told that I’ve been away for too long. What brought me back, today, and I hope again and again, is a dispensation sealed with…
Blurton’s second chapter considers Beowulf within the alimentary logic and wonders of the whole of its manuscript, Cotton Vitellius A. XV, whose contents, as our…
I decided to give up on gumming my dissertation to death for a moment to offer our readers this, an inchoate version of my upcoming…
A while back, I discussed a case of necrobestiality. The hope for exoneration of a fellow caught in flagrante delicto with a deer’s carcass hinged…
Recently, I had a conversation with several academics about this masculine commercial for an already pretty butch establishment. In typical academic fashion, I’d never seen…
