This is the gastric-brooding frog, also known as the Platypus frog. There were two species of these things, and in both cases the female frog would swallow the fertilized eggs. The tadpole would then develop into a frog while in the female’s stomach.

These little weirdos went extinct sometime in the 1980s, although for once [...]

People are pretty damn good at ignoring ads, since there’s no longer any (sane) way to avoid them. The cold-war response is to make the ads louder and more obnoxious, which only makes the occasional clever and well-executed ad all the more surprising –

It took me a moment for everything to come together, but when [...]

I think I have a chronic problem when it comes to writing about myself as opposed to… things, I suppose. Every time I relaunch this son of a bitch I try to focus on writing for and/or by myself, but it never pans out. This is probably due to the fact that I’m self-critical [...]

The house I’m in is on one of those pseudo-main roads, a supposed shortcut around the traffic lights that takes longer than the alternative. I was washing the dishes the other night, listening to the traffic drive by, when I notice something from the other side of the kitchen.
Skritch. Tap tap. Skritch.
I [...]