how to get singularity of toric variety unless built into basic affine building block ?? ... hmmm.... ??good point, i guess... so what about ... "cone over moduli stack of elliptic curves ..... ????? .....

??interaction between "stackiness" and "singularity" here ??? .... ???? ....

y^2 = x^3 ... ???? ???did this show up in our mathematica pictures ??????? .... ???...

?? does this sort of example actually fit into "fan" formalism ?? ... ??? ...