CREATURE FEATURE
The famous Pacific Northwest cryptid. No, not that one.
Imagine you're a crew member aboard the Lightship Columbia in 1934. You're minding your own business, staring out into the murky Pacific Northwest mist across the Columba River between Oregon and Washington. Then the waters begin to bubble. Steam exhumes from the surface. And a 40-foot serpentine sea monster reveals its big ugly head. You've just met Colossal Claude.
Calamity Jane: Heroine of the Plains. Out of the Wild West Women most people can name, Martha Jane Canary most certainly tops the list. From her rough-and-tumble real-life exploits to the hyperbolic spin-offs, Calamity Jane has rightfully earned her place in American lore.
From waterfront walkways to mountaintop meadows to philosophers' promenades, the cherry blossom tree has long been synonymous with beauty, introspection and the transience of nature and the soul. But look beyond their beautiful blooms, and you'll discover folklore as contorted and quirky as the branches of these ancient trees.
A myth that's full of smoke and mirrors.
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a... cat with wings? And maybe a serpent tale? Okay, what the fuck is going on here? If you wouldn't be so judgy and just ask the ancient Aztecs, they'd have a pretty good explanation for you. Well, maybe. Even their explanations derived from difficult-to-decipher codexes and drawings are a little up in the air. But that doesn't make Tezcatlipoca any less awesome.
A Creature Feature with a fatal flaw.
As the weather gets nicer, it’s inevitable that Folklords will venture back out on the trails that winter and spring rendered unrunnable. It’s also inevitable that somebody somewhere will push themselves too hard and wind up with one of the most common runner ailments: Achilles tendonitis. To some of us, it’s our Achilles heel, if you will. But more specifically, it’s a tendon, as previously stated.
