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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.

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Teaser the Second

Well, that was depressing. Enough of this sad and frustrating business! I'm pleased to report that several people correctly identified the source of the image in the previous teaser as a green laser. (No, it wasn't made using a mirror...

I Think I Know Some People Who'd Like To Perform These Live

Thanks to the evilutionary superscientist P-Zed....

The Digital Cuttlefish, Volume One

It's here! You could buy one for your Mother; you could buy one for your Pop You could buy one for your Pastor just to hear him holler "stop!" You could buy a bunch, and swap out all the hymnals...

Thursday Neil Gaiman: Crazy Hair

I hadn't heard this poem since 2001, and given that the Dave McKean-illustrated book won't be out until next year, a video from somebody's phone might have to do....

New Words for a Classic Ghoulish Tune

Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night... so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears, and utterly destroyed the C. B. S. You...

After Years

Poetry time! This is a brief selection from Ted Kooser, a poet famous for sending thousands of handmade Valentines, among other accomplishments. After Years Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face...

Friday Video: I Google You

"And I'm pleased your name is practically unique . . ."

Happenings

First up, the Cuttlefish has a new poem about the Large Hadron Collider: The switch was thrown in Switzerland And protons zoomed around a bend— Across the world, we clasped our hands And waited for the world to end. The...

Mrs Schofield's GCSE

You know what happens when you take sex and violence out of the literature curriculum?

Quatrain

If watches could but timely watchlings breed, Their hatchlings on minutest clocksprings feed, And win their loves by telling truest time, Of Watchmakers then would we have no need....

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