Uncle Rover

   Patricia Piccinini in an exciting press release, has announced that she has sold her patented transgenic process of  fusing your DNA with your dearly loved, recently departed pet's - to Monnsanto.  In just a few short month's, when the gestation tank warehouses are nearly complete, the first appointments will be made, and then you too can be as happy with your new pet as this little girl.

It was a sad day when polly died.

    Yogoro was his last chirp, I don't recall much more as my all seeing eye hole was a tiny cut out square.  I really needed something bigger and rounder, but fashion is king and the high priest's public relations firm said square tested fantastic, I'm not the best marketer so I'll trust their advice.  Any who, if any of your bird men need a last rite you know who to get.

House broken pets need new home.

     Patricia Piccinini's family dog had passed on, and they were heart broken.  She had an Idea, not a clear one but a general Idea of what she wanted to do.  The dog went into the deep freeze and Patricia dove deep into the science of  molecular cloning.  After two weeks had went, she realised that molecular cloning was going to take longer to master than she had thought and began looking for a faster way of bringing the family pet back from the dead.  Fortunately she had amassed a sizable horde of science publications, and had been grazing though them waiting for an idea, when she saw an ad for a do it yourself genetic cloning kit.  She immediately sent for it and started the process as soon as it arrived. 

      Everybody was excited to see their new pet develop in the gestation chamber, but something abnormal for a canine gestation period was happening.  At the time which they should've all seen a puppy take shape, the fetus was still in development, the family still meticulously tended the the tank and watched three more month's.  The birth, came when Patricia noticed the gestation tank bumping across the kitchen floor, (they kept the tank in a kitchen closet by the water heater) she then started the process of raising the little imp.       Over the years she has accrued quite a house full of the things as they breed asexually.  Patricia surmised it was her skills at house keeping that had resulted in some of the dogs DNA mixing or rather had been mistakenly spliced with someone from her family. 

     

   

Testing for the æther boundary in the Aérostat Fougueux

Jose Parra documented the first maneuvers of the flotte de dirigeables in 1799.  Napoleon ordered a fleet of twenty three Aérostat's to be made at the Montrouge balloon yards - due to clerical error - the number produced was twenty six.  With three more dirigeables than he needed for the 1805 invasion of  the newly purchased American Louisiana territories, the extra were given a scientific mission of exploration.  During the lengthy trip through the atmosphere the three ship fleet found that they could re-supply using the native flora and fauna of the the skies, and managed not to touch land for three years.  News of their voyage (through carrier pigeon) reached the main fleet in low altitude maneuvers over the Mediterranean, and convinced the admiralty to finally issue the order for the American invasion.  The flotte de dirigeables roamed the heavens in an indirect path towards their destination, living off the land, so to speak, and in the process causing the extinction of many aeronautical species.  By 1810 the fleet had parked itself over the Louisiana territory waiting for the order to attack, which never came.  Presumably the fleet had learned to harvest the skies without causing large scale ecological destruction,  as the last communication from the flotilla occurred in 1825 via an ancient carrier pigeon.

Good ole corn fed deer.

Dan Hillier was out hunting for our famous G.M.O. corn fed deer and came upon this extraordinary scene.  Baffled as he was, he asked that I - a local inhabitant - should try to clarify what exactly was transpiring in this image he had rendered from memory.  

My reply;  

Dear Mr. Hillier 

   I can only offer a conjecture, a merest speculation - this can only be a one of those superb representatives of  agribusiness, expressing that their particular modified product is was in no way responsible for his unusual antler growth.    

Zid Hedbug

Captain's Chrononaut

Yuri Laptev has been recruited by the office of alterable chronology, to use his skill at peering through the fog of reality. 

Ancient Roman Military Secret Unveiled.

This is Julie Heffernan's self portrait, of course she's dressed herself up a bit, but I can pick out a likeness. 

Bieber + Gomez = Biemez or Gomber

Federico Zarco in painting Justin Bieber wearing Selena Gomez may have induced a partial collapse of his cranium.  I think he will be fine, a phrenologist of some regard has been called in to prescribe a treatment.