I have always loved the Firesign Theater.

This toad lives in my friend’s basement, and has lived down there for years.  Sometimes we wonder if it ever gets lonely.

Yes, you heard right.  George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, is blogging from the great beyond. Actually, it’s the organization who runs The Orwell Prize that’s doing the blogging, publishing Orwell’s diaries exactly 70 years from the day each entry was written. And in the very first post, George describes catching a snake.