My First Comet

Tonight we put on our jackets and went shivering out into the cold to peer at the sky and glimpse our first comet.  Of course, even with binoculars, it still looked more like a tiny splat of pea soup than a comet, or maybe a place where someone had smudged the erasor of their pencil across

Witchiest Get Rich Scheme

So what’s the oldest-latest scheme for making money?  The art of Necropants, as detailed in the Icelandic Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft.  I’ll let you read it from the source, but be warned that it involves wearing a dead man’s skin as pants. Besides being the funniest scheme I’ve ever come across, it also reminding me that