the mighty (a) snail (b) potato (c) snow pea

The Snail
lnhammer linked to a marvelous blog entry from the British Library about the common image, in medieval marginalia, of knights battling snails. . .

Take that, ye gastropod!


. . . And sometimes losing!

suing for mercy


The Potato
Meanwhile, the healing angel and I found ourselves drawn into a Selected Shorts performance of "Subsoil," by Nicholson Baker, read by Thomas Gibson. It's the last of three stories read for the program theme of "Too Late." It was a hilarious and actually terrifying...