Suicide is Painless (idea)
Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be the pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see... "Suicide is Painless" is first heard during the opening of the 1970 anti-war...
View ArticleWith regard to your recent use of the L word (poetry)
Whereas the Court recognizes that the relationship extended beyond intercourse (though to a degree that is questionable at best). And whereas it was demonstrated that your hands had the best of...
View ArticleThe Sex Pigs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (review)
Back in the 1970s, when I had big sideburns and a really, really greasy clump of hair that grew out of one spot on my bald head and I would nail it down with hair oil and slick it back to conceal my...
View Articlefourth generation language (idea)
The first computer programs that were in any way worthy of the name were input by connecting wires, flipping switches and typing in numbers. This was the first generation: Raw machine code. The next...
View ArticleThe Nixon-Presley Meeting (thing)
In 1970 Elvis Presley was depressed about the hippie element, the Black Panthers and the drugs culture that he thought was ruining America. He thought it was high time he did something about it and...
View Articlechess (thing)
Perhaps the greatest game ever created, Chess involves two players with Sixteen pieces each trying to capture their opponents king with their pieces. The starting position To set up the board, each...
View ArticleCommit to paper the chances I've missed, the girls I've loved, the dogs I've...
I have discovered that if I walk far enough into the woods I will lose all traces of the city. Will become a natural naturalist; will know how to do things I did not know I knew how to do. It is not...
View ArticleAgreeance (idea)
Agreeance is a less-popular alternative to 'agreement'. They both mean the same thing, and both have been around for over 500 years, but despite continued reemergence, agreeance has never managed to...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Supporters of Proposition 8: Rational Discourse in...
Has anyone else felt an aura of resentment and hate? I know I have. Now I may be new to e2 but correct me if I am wrong, isnât this hatespeak? Regardless of whether someone elseâs view may seem...
View ArticleNight Shift (review)
A collection of short stories by Stephen King, published in 1978. It was King's first short story collection and his fifth published book. I suspect it's his best-known collection and the most widely...
View Articledoll (fiction)
 It was the night of the hunterâs moon, the full moon after the harvest. It was cold. You could see your breath. The fields were stripped and white as a broken girl. I found her in that hollow...
View ArticleSkeleton Crew (review)
A collection of short stories by Stephen King, published in 1985. It was King's second short story collection. I think this is my favorite of King's collections -- the stories are generally pretty...
View Articleair layering (idea)
Air layering is a method of plant propagation. The general idea behind air layering is to get a plant stem to produce roots, then to cut the stem below the roots and plant it in soil. The cut stem on...
View Articlecommunications satellite (thing)
A communications satellite is a man-made device placed into orbit around the earth for the purpose of relaying telecommunications signals. These may be broadcast communications, such as television or...
View ArticleThose Don't Sound Like Bats (fiction)
The following is an audio recording sent to my phone through Focebak Messenger yesterday. I had invited my friend Joanna to my house here in rural Massachusetts. That might have been a bad idea. But I...
View ArticleShe didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house...
He stole, on occasion, conspicuous objects from her front porch and lawn and put them back where he'd found them several months later after she'd safely cast them from the eye of her mind. It was the...
View ArticleThe Cat in the Hat by William Shakespeare (thing)
In response to several questions I got: Yes, I did write this. The Cat in the Hat By William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Sally: a girl Boy: a boy, and Sally's brother Cat: a cat, who doth wear a hat...
View ArticleThe Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (review)
The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn By John Bellairs Bantam Skylark, 1978 The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn is a young adult adventure/mystery novel, and is the first book in the Anthony Monday series....
View ArticleThe Mansion in the Mist (review)
The Mansion in the Mist By John Bellairs Dial books, 1992 The Mansion in the Mist is a children's/young adult novel, generally classified as fantasy; however, Bellairs writes spooky tales, and in this...
View ArticleThe small town rail station (idea)
There are two types of train stations in the world; the commuting station, and the escaping station. Sometimes, however, they're a bit of both. Sitting on the edge of town, the buildings grand...
View ArticleAn illuminating conversation with the dark (fiction)
Finally! said the figure. Now we can talk. âOh,â I said. âOkay. Hi.â I gave it a little wave. The figure stayed motionless, and though I saw no eyes, no facial features at all, I knew it was...
View ArticleJuly 12, 2010 (log)
it's been a little while so probably you thought i peaced out but GUESS AGAIN, necromancy is here to stay. so im sure youre wondering where ive been and i can sort of tell you but some parts are secret...
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