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and a nod to a new comic strip.
Yesterday evening as I drove along the allee of American elms which marks the passage from US Route 1 to Einsteinville's famous campus, I saw fireflies rising from the grass in the adjacent fields. On the eve of the summer solstice, here were the true harbingers of…
I'm a fan of the comic strip Lio — the one with the weird little kid with the pet squid and whose antics clearly make him a descendant of the Addams Family. The strip for Christmas eve was a little different, though.
It hit home for me because the day after Christmas is my day of melancholy. It…
If you've been following Lio lately, you know he has a new arthropod friend, rescued from the dinner pot.
Unfortunately, Lio missed the big news.
The fossil record has yielded various gigantic arthropods, in contrast to their diminutive proportions today. The recent discovery of a 46cm long claw…
When I read Lio this morning, I thought that you must have had the same kinds of bathtub toys, especially the octopus, as a kid. That would explain a lot.
I grant comics to be anatomically uncorrect, especially when animals shall display emotion, but why teeth and *one* eye?
Weird.