Well, for obvious reasons...
The Lantern Fishworks began as a series of columns for the short-lived, long-lamented and rarely-viewed web zine (if you must) Yaddasite.com (2000-2001), a digital off-shoot of the short-lived, long-lamented and rarely-read photocopied zine, Report to Hell (1993-1998). Except Yaddasite was funnier and more relevant, which isn't saying much. Yaddasite.com may still be caroming through the vacuum of webspace, but after its demise, I haven't been able to glimpse even its remnants. For a website superior to the three mentioned here, visit Keep Prying, a paean to the long-term effects of nostalgia, produced by the former co-editor of Report To Hell.
The Lantern Fishworks columns are lists of notions, inventions, and other crap I've scribbled in my notebooks stretching back over the last 10 years or so, none of which I could even flesh out to paragraph length. This is the only structure I could design on which they could find purchase.
The humor is suspect, the purpose is egotistical. Read on, MacDuff!
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