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Time Travel Insanity

Do I have time travel insanity? Am I obsessed with time travel stories? I don’t think so, but I seem to have written more tales…

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Kurt Vonnegut on Swooping Versus Bashing

Kurt Vonnegut, who is my literary hero, called himself a “swooper.” A swooper is someone who lets the story appear, higgley-piggley, in the first draft.…

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Nine charming quotes about writing

Quite often I find that when writers write about writing (yes, I just did that) the advice is prescriptive, and so, useless. These folks, however,…

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Review: The Fellowship of the Ring and Tom Bombadil

Mark examines the role of Tom Bombadil in the fellowship of the ring.

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Review: People of the Sea

Irish thought exploded into my consciousness during my undergrad. I read Seamus Heaney’s first collection of poetry within a few weeks of being introduced to…

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Ask General Kang: Have you ever cried to win an election?

There are a few things you need to know before I can answer this question properly: 1) Über-chimps are physically incapable of crying standard tears…

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The Monkey’s Tail, as Told by Marcel Duchamp the Day After Charles Lindbergh Landed at Le Bourget Field

I had this friend who was obsessed with having a monkey tail grafted to his ass. Actually, to call him a friend is stretching the truth. Toulouse was more of a colleague. An ex-colleague, if you get my meaning.

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Batman Lashes Out at the Other Members of the Justice League of America After Spending a Weekend at the Jack Nicholson Film Festival

You know The Batman has always resented his super-powered friends, deep down.

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Lucidiva – Side effects

Common side effects include heavy breathing, panting, hyperventilation, lack of peripheral vision, excessive screaming, painful hearing and nasal discharge that may look like rice pudding.…

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The 2nd Monday of October

Meanwhile in Canada … Every year on the second Monday of October, Canadians celebrate the end of the Moose Ascendancy. During this dark period of…

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