Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of slop

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about slop: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting slop in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on lost

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to lost. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Marginalia: singularity

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on singularity this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as slop contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. slop remains.