Humans

They were talking about global warming on the news again. The last segment was about a hurricane. Little Billy flipped the channel only to find a documentary on obesity. Turning to the newspaper he found headlines of natural disasters, murders, suicides and general portents of doom. Even the Internet didn’t have any words of comfort. [...]

Skeletor

He-Man was one of my favourite cartoons back in the 1980s. Of course back then every cartoon was my favourite and little has changed since, but I digress. He-Man was the hero of that particular cartoon and as all heroes do he had an arch rival, a loathsome troublemaker named Skeletor who, as you might [...]

Meeting Meat

I was riding to work early the other day when a few places in front of me was a van belonging to a wholesale butchery called “Meet the Meat”. It was one of the funniest names I’ve ever heard of, and serves as the inspiration for this little story.

One might easily imagine a dark alley; [...]

World War Zero

It was just last week that I was chatting online to a South African friend of mine who’s currently studying in Germany because, despite all the fancy technical jargon she uses as excuses for studying abroad, she’s really only there because the Germans have larger microscopes. Which is particularly vexing since she’s not a particularly [...]

Depression

Depression’s a bitch. I’ve been fairly depressed recently for various reasons so I know this for a fact. And not the fun clinical depression that make psychiatrists see dollar signs, but the more mundane, boring kind where you’re just not happy and it feels like pretty much everything sucks. In all fairness, those who’ve [...]