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Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

Birthday Wedding Suits

I heard on the radio this morning that the local Red Cross came up $150,000 short of it’s annual budget and so would have to cut educational programs and some emergency response capabilites (pray for no tornado this season!). I also heard that Jennifer Lopez spent $350,000 on her wedding dress. Serendipity. The solution is [...]

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003

Biblical Toddlers

Had some bizarre thoughts on the way to work this morning…
In the story of Genesis, Adam and Eve are only forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; after they eat that fruit, they are denied the tree of life. Apparently, one can either be self-aware, or one can live forever. [...]

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Friday, September 19th, 2003

Announcement

Attention all personnel: Ragweed sucks.
That is all.

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Friday, September 12th, 2003

Not So Secret Anymore

Several of us in my writer’s workshop decided to pelt the magazine Strange Horizons with Zombie Unicorn stories for April Fool’s day. My entry into the silliness was a Very Secret Diary of the Zombie Unicorn (with many apologies to hysterically funny Cassandra Claire. Check her original secret diaries. I’ve determined, through extensive investigation, that [...]

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Thursday, September 11th, 2003

Prognostications

Parents constantly watch their children for clues fo talents and passions that might blossom into a career. “Ooh! She’s playing in the garden! She’ll be a biologist.” “Look at him take care of the sick dog–that’s a vet in the making.” “Hm…she’s tearing the wings off a fly–I should start her law school fund [...]

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Tuesday, September 9th, 2003

Drive unto others as you would have them drive unto you

The following are excerpts from the fragmentary “Book of Motoronomy,” one of the scrolls recently discovered in Qumran:
…And the Lord answered him, “All the creatures that crawl {roll?} on the earth are mine, whether their wheels be two or four or eight or more. But climb thou not into a cart of six wheels, for [...]

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Monday, September 8th, 2003

Welcome…and sex…

Well, here it is. My blog. This is a random collection of thoughts that aren’t quite usable in my actual writing, but I have to store them somewhere or they will make my brain explode. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re poignant, often they’re just gonna be weird. Tonight it’s about sex.
Last night my friend and [...]

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