Adults-Only GRACK!

This one’s called “Honeysuckle Moon.” It almost makes sense if you read the column.

As usual, the current GRACK! is always here. This week’s column is archived at the photo link, and here’s your excerpt:

So much has come and gone. I was remembering today a portal of heaven I used to know, a certain stretch of the then unspoiled San Gabriel River north of Austin, Texas. I discovered the area first as a university student on a fossil hunt. There along the limestone banks were beautiful marine specimens, hundreds of millions of years old, simply littering the ground. I found an anemone and a complete oyster shell with both halves connected. Naturally, I opened it up, and inside was a partial fossil of the flesh of the thing, so help me. I have this with me still: if you hold it in the light just right, you can see the most exquisite rounded groove or indentation in the “muscle.” Michaelangelo could not have sculpted better, yet this was lying in the mud. Read more >>