Talent Show Auditions

Next is a comedian who simply stands there sobbing. A stagehand leads him away.   Then, a juggler of the invisible. Either a con, or utter genius.   A singer only dogs can hear.   A magician, minus any magic.   The mute thespian, his monologue of clicks and whistles. We thank him for coming. […]

Astronomically Speaking

The Big Bang was simply a drawer being slowly pulled open. Space didn’t expand, the rooms got smaller. Quasars are actually restaurants on fire. Galaxies, we’ve discovered, are really bathroom lights left on all night long. What you think of as vast distances are an optical illusion, the vacuous void in fact a church hall […]