Big Bad Bald Bastard

Oddly enough, my most "popular" post by far has been a somewhat perfunctory post about some unknown fruits that I found and decid...

When you find a puffball mushroom the size of a person's head , word gets out. A friend of mine teaches early American history, specifi...

Tonight, after contemplating a glorious full moon peeking out from behind a thin curtain of cirrus clouds... while anticipating the upc...

At two o'clock this morning, I ran into an unexpected bounty, a giant puffball mushroom ( Calvatia gigantea ), while doing my regular w...

On Tuesday, I received sad news. Mr Teruo Asakura, the father of my brother Sweetum's wife, succumbed to a long illness. I was lucky t...

Last night, I headed down to the beautiful Bell House , in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, for this month's Secret Science Club lectur...

Roy's latest column name dropped one of my all-time favorite bands, Belfast's Stiff Little Fingers . Needless to say, I've bee...