Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) Classic issue #403 (published October 9, 2008): "More insights per pound than the Bible."

Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) Classic issue #403 (published October 9, 2008)

More insights per pound than the Bible.

Giant Squid: Ask The Giant Squid: A Mollusk Does Not a Cephalopod Make by the Giant SquidDear Giant Squid,

I received this question from my mother and thought you might best answer it, as it concerns a mollusk.

"Do snails hop?"

. . .

Fiction: Night in a Tree by Richard LeeHe ran, ran, stumbling and rolling, the feral dogs always just a step behind. As he ran he scooped up rocks and sticks to fling back blindly at the beasts, but now the path turned to cross a meadow where there were no stones, and instead he beat across it to a copse of sturdy trees and hurled himself up the first trunk like a squirrel, and so he sat for a long time in the top, panting. One of the cuffs of his shirt had torn or frayed, and this he absentmindedly put in his mouth while he watched the dogs below. Then, looking around, he noticed that there were others in the trees, people, like himself, gaunt and silent with eyes flashing in the near-dark.

. . .

Poetry: Photo Gallery 1983 by Leah MuellerI didn't own any photos of myself

from my rollicking early adulthood

until recently, when I had dinner

with someone I hadn't seen in twenty years.

He and his ruddy suburban wife were friendly . . .

Rant: Direct Translations of Six Phrases I Used in Costa Rica by David Erik Nelson<< Perdoname, doña, ¿usted tiene una machina para eliminar el sombrero de mi coca-cola? >>

"Pardon me, madam; do you have a machine for to use to eliminate the hat from my coca-cola?"

(August 6, convenience store, village of Brasil de Mora) . . .