Mari Lwyd:Horsehead mask with red eyes faces left, behind an embroidered band hangs a fabric mane.Here’s a McSweeney’s column, mocking Amazon and our attempts to order goods that are made sustainably. Enjoy.

Rupert Grint owes over $2 million in back taxes.

Clarion’s 2025 faculty list is stellar. (Thanks to File 770.)

Nerds of a Feather reviews Lavanya Lakshiminarayan’s Interstellar Chef.

The Walt Disney Company announced that Moana 2 broke box office records last weekend.

Over at Reactor, Judith Tarr examines the origins of “Canada’s Nessie,” named Nhaatik by the First Nations, but renamed Ogopogo by colonists (more tourist friendly) later on. I just want one of those postage stamps!

A disturbing window into planetary warming.

Every year I post something about the eerie Welsh tradition of the Mari Lwyd. Here is this year’s article.

My first cocktail recipe of the season is from Halina Hadas who hosts the blog Witchcraft Cocktails. I’m going to make this one—maybe I’ll drink it solstice morning.

This Atlas Obscura article hooked me at, “Lichenologists would have bet a lot of money on them being asexual.” Turns out lichens are more open-minded when it comes to reproduction than some scientists first thought.

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    Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She’s retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town.

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