May I go back to telling you all about this small life, or has th Internet circus train left that station? I'm going around turning all th television sets off a minute before credits roll in an attempt to commit th world's first suicide by suspense. I cancelled my afternoon appointment so I could hallucinate to my cold medicine in private. I'm ( Read more... )

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      Thought experiment: suppose you support slave labour. You're th captain of a trireme. Below deck, 170 oarsmen row yr boat to war. Never mind -- Wikipedia says that, contrary to popular belief, triremes' crews were composed of free men. Suppose you're th pharaoh's niece walking in th shade of a palm frond held by a nervous Israelite girl ( Read more... )

44 Presidents | Order from GCpress.com

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yesterday I was feeling some feelings regarding whether anything could happen. "Yes," I sensed, "it can." A deep-sea fish named the barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has sensitive, tubular green eyes enclosed within a see-through canopy reminiscent of a fighter jet's. Its eyes rest pointing straight upward to spot silhouetted prey from below, ( Read more... )

i am speaking to Aaron, my lawyer, on th telephone when something strange happens. It is 2:00 in th a.m. my time, 11:00 in th p.m. his time. We are talking about causality as applied to mental illness: etiology. I am saying, "Who can say? I had a bad month, that's all. I got on Wikipedia for two days straight. I don't know why. I don't ( Read more... )

Dear Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine,

I am writing you from Thanksgiving 2008, where steady rain is turning nature into a wet kleenex. Thank you for being my cat.


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shinji's ex-girlfriend really is in a coma, and it really is serious. He found out about it when he googled her name and stumbled upon her brother Paul's Facebook profile, which was completely open to the public and featured a status update that could not be more unambiguous on the matter: "Paul Mapa regrets to report that Arizona is still in a ( Read more... )