TINKERBELLES

TINKERBELLES

TINKERBELLESNumerus perversus RANGE: Shimmering across the skies. Singing down the wires. Bouncing off satellites. Beneath the seas, where the weed-draped cables drift. Binding the global village in a seamless silver web. Flashing through microcircuits to light up the...
JACK O’LECTERN

JACK O’LECTERN

JACK O’LECTERNOrator ineptus RANGE: Classes, lectures, seminars, discussion groups, conventions, pulpits, meetings, rallies, briefings, press conferences, speeches, sales presentations, readings, awards ceremonies, banquets, show-and-tell . . . anywhere, anytime...
WERNER VON BROWNIE

WERNER VON BROWNIE

WERNER VON BROWNIEIncendere et defugere RANGE: From the profoundest inner reaches of the atom to the outermost limits of the universe; from the first instance called the Singularity, and for the hypothetically foreseeable future, we have with us the very experimental...
DIXIE PIXIE

DIXIE PIXIE

DIXIE PIXIEFlatuus ante bellum RANGE: North of the Mason-Dixon line, the Dixie Pixie can invariably be found anywhere the South is being celebrated, or derided; wherever mint juleps are consumed in excess, or utterly scorned; any place com pone and grits are eaten, or...
THE CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIRY

THE CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIRY

THE CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIRYUrbs secunda RANGE: The Chicago World’s Fairy, a hulking, towering, powerfully muscled Giant, Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, and Stacker of Wheat with a Titanic Inferiority Complex, sitteth—as everybody knows by now—at the northwest...