Who would have thought this humble pest would someday take a seat beside the likes of David Copperfield or Martin Chuzzlewit, as The King of the Microbes.
One of the most startling events for fans of Charles Dickens this past year has been the recent discovery of an unpublished manuscript, The King of the Microbes. …
Tiffany Lamp Gone Bad (2001)
May West liked good salmon.Her bedroom had dark panelling
and lava lamps. Over her tables hungracks of critics behind the bar
where bad service is largely blamedon Texas. Her rental limo
was toothless and made me think ofcamp. Such dim jerky tastes
survivalist or maybe all the songsabout trendy green plots gas up
through hanging …
He played the Balalaika… then ate it!
I wasn’t quite sure what to do, so I clapped.
He wasn’t finished yet.
Everyone in the alien dinner theater scowled at me while he started again, from the beginning.
I couldn’t see why this guy was such a big celebrity on this planet.
Until he started to sing. It was the …
Periodically, blog housekeeping issues arise that need to be clarified.
Orbit Trap is not an online community. We’re a blog. In a very real sense, we are like a publishing house. We reserve the right to choose what we will and will not publish. We do not exclude public opinion. Comments are welcome, and we do …
Unattainable (1999)
An impossible self help questionwill waitcheck outbe homeunless you are a fan
of stupid networks. One of the tightestgoing nuclear photographs cuts
waste and overlooks ad agencyethics. To understand more
toast the Broadway stage withhandgun exits, silent designs
before clicking to playshut the bookscool detachmentself protectionwhen the Coca Cola intelligentsia
stumble in household incomeand brain drain …
It’s been ages now since ants took over the Earth, but they still enjoy reliving the old battles.
“One small step for an ant, one giant leap for all insects.” Conquering the humans was the defining moment in the civilization of the ants.
When they read what we wrote about them in textbooks, they weren’t insulted. …
Hey, how about it? Is this the Campbell Soup Cans of fractals or what?
Anyhow, Andy told me, and no one else knows this, that he’s taken all his talent and everything he’s ever learned about art and put it into a single photoshop filter.
And he gave it to me, on a diskette.
I’d post it …
Mandelbrot Among the Gypsies (2001)
Gaston Julia, recovering from injuries caused by a hospital, was named king of the gypsies in 1917. He had darned some socks for corpses and driven a hawthorn stake through his soon-to-be famous set. Much of his initial groundwork was spent decapitating computers on a finite area of the X-Y plane. …
