Category: Fiction
Dear Internet, Yes, I know. This week you've Pharyngulated me and Redditted me and Language Logged me. You clearly expect me to entertain you, to provide amusing diversions from the banality of mass media, the futility of love and the...
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Category: Fiction
When the movie was finished, Devi was still very high, and she began performing an interpretive dance about viruses. Standing with her feet scrunched together and pressing her hands against invisible walls, like a euphoric mime, she said, "This dance...
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So, there's this video. It's apparently for a German electronics retailer whose motto is, roughly translated, "We hate expensive". Phil thought it looked really kewl. P-Zed agreed, but he said that it portrayed evolution as a linear progression along a...
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Category: Bibliophilia
1968. The Protectorate has fallen. The nation of Andalus is rebuilding after a bloody civil war, their efforts organized by an elite set of calculating technocrats. Just when life has almost achieved a kind of normality, one of their colleagues...
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