Category Archives: Weird

Maybe He Can Tell Us About Warp Drives

I’ve always thought that Ted Kennedy lived in an alternate universe, but now he admits it:

Briefly, Kennedy rewrote the outcome of the 1964 election. “This nominee was influenced by the Goldwater presidency,” he said. “The Goldwater battles of those times were the battles against the civil rights laws.” Only then did Kennedy acknowledge that “Judge Alito at that time was 14 years old.”

Harry Turtledove ought to hire him for some new story ideas.

Call Of The Wild

A moose was attracted to the plaintive sounds of a teenager’s saxophone.

At least that’s what the story says. Question to the copy editor who wrote the headline, though–who taught the moose’s son to play the sax? It reminds me of the old joke that Groucho told about shooting an elephant in his pajamas.

Here’s a contest, for the best guess at what the song was. Somehow I doubt if it was “Embraceable You…”