The Geecologist

Lanny

Lanny

Sep 26, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

At that time I was into finding and cleaning the skeletons of dead things. Mostly birds. I would pull them apart, coat them in gold leaf, reassemble them wrongly and suspend them from wire frames. Little mobiles of badly made birds. I’d done a dozen or so. The gallery...
The Etymologicon

The Etymologicon

Jul 2, 2020 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously lackadaisical about their appearance, so before their wool can be turned into a nice warm jumper it must be combed. It’s easy to see how combing wool and teasing out the knots...