Super Doomed Planet

Project Gutenberg has posted the February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. The best things in it are the ads. CORRECT Your NOSE! Thousands have used the Anita Nose Adjuster to improve their appearance. Shapes flesh and cartilage of the nose—safely, painlessly, while you sleep. Results are lasting. Doctors approve it. Money back guarantee. [...]

I’ve got a webcomic. Lately I’ve been averaging one comics page a week, if that. That’s because creating each page is like dragging myself uphill. Longer stories–like the one I’ve got going now–start with a pile of scribbled notes from three or four different sketchbooks, which may or may not originally have had anything to [...]

Skimming through a random selection on Project Gutenberg–the July 2, 1853 issue of Notes and Queries–I came across this weird little incident: Curious Posthumous Occurrence.—If the following be true, though in ever so limited a manner, it deserves investigation. Notwithstanding his twenty-three years’ experience, the worthy grave-digger must have been mistaken, unless there is something [...]

I’m home today using some vacation time to clean the house. Just now I was interrupted by a knock on the door. It turned out to be a guy going door to door and dropping off “literature” like a Jehovah’s Witness. Only this guy was from Edward Jones. Yes, they’re that desperate.