Snow Crabs
In 1927 on a suitably wet morning in Port Talbot in the south of Wales, Philip Antony Quince let out…
Junk Bonds
Game An active interest or pursuit, especially one involving competitive engagement or adherence to rules. Three Card…
Pizza
If you’re anything like me (34 years old, six feet two inches, 96kg, orange birthmark above right eyelid) and…
“Let’s have a hot bath together, go on, it’ll be fun!”
Onsen: a short history. 暇つぶし（ひまつぶし）is a Japanese word whose meaning, as a JET, is probably extremely familiar to you…
No Zen, No Life: The Tigers, the Colonel, and the Curse
One Inch Deep in the Skillet Colonel Harland David ‘Colonel Sanders’ Sanders was an Indiana native who set the…
Never cut the wool
The Virgo male is cautious; bound by the astrological sign of earth, his rationality and steadfastness of spirit are…
No Zen, No… Time for Ramen
Royal Host In 1994 magician David Copperfield (born Benjamin Sherman Crothers) attempted the impossible – he would make the…
Camel Clutch and the Path Not Taken: Motoko Town
She talks to me so quickly I can’t understand The Alpaca (Vicugnapacos) is a domesticated species of South…
This is Your Brain on Summer Sonic
Glastonbury, The U.K.’s biggest music festival, held in the Vale of Avalon since 1970 will this year attract…