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An Ode To The Incoming Freshman Class of St. Remedius Medical College (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One group affected by the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College that receives little recognition was the new blood. In some cases, literally. When it came to Texas colleges and universities, nothing beat St. Remedius for earned cool credit. The University of North Texas earned its reputation as…

Introducing Winston the Flame-Point Doorstop Now that we’re reasonably sure that winter in Dallas is over (we’re never absolutely sure, which is why I always tell friends never to think about planting gardens until after St. Patrick’s Day), life has hit an equilibrium. We’re about three weeks from putting up winter quilts and clothes with no significant chance of needing them again until December, the trees outside are starting to…

Introducing Major Piper, St. Remedius Chief of Security (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Every educational institution needs a security force to enforce order or at least keep chaos to a dull roar. Because of its distinctive needs, St. Remedius Medical College needed a distinctive security force. At the center, organizing the handling of parking citations, escorting dignitaries across the campus, or ordering maintenance schedules on…

Deception and Counter-Deception (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) While the regulation and commodification of cheap and effective time travel in the late 20th Century (as far as humans were concerned; other species and biota had their own standards about temporal visitation) was instigated specifically to stop paradoxes and incursions, the urge to use the technology or thaumaturgy to do precisely that was nearly overwhelming. Surprisingly,…

Not All Who Walk Seek To Feed On The Living (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Texas is loaded with resources, including rivers, mountains, prairies, forests, and arguments for nuking the state from orbit, but one thing it has lacked since the Pleistocene is an abundance of natural lakes. Right now, its sole natural lake, Caddo Lake, it shares with its neighbor Louisiana. Every other large…

Not All Experiments Are Disposed Of Equally (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Those who grew up in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area during the Great Media Wars of the 1980s and 1990s often find themselves awake at night with various advertising slogans and jingles running unbidden through their heads. It might be as cheery as the Dallas Times Herald classified ad jingle “748-1414” (immediately marking…

Modest Proposals On Dragging Literary Conventions Out of the 20th Century, Part 3 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular…

Time Traveling As Fast As You Can To Stay In The Same Place (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (One of Dallas’s essential Superb Owl options, the first Perot Museum Thursdays On Tap adults-only evening event of 2026, debuted on February 12. St. Remedius Medical College alumni and Bromley Contingent members were cordially invited to attend the festivities, which included live music, food trucks, and access…

Legacies of Last Month’s Ice Storm Life of the Parker runs in three modes. First is the Comfort Mode: sitting on the couch or on his favorite throne, curled up on his favorite blanket, kicking me in the face when he sleeps at night. The second is the Boredom Avoidance Mode: yelling for attention, stropping his fangs on my arm until he draws blood, insisting that I join him for…

In Dallas, the Superb Owl Is More Than One Day (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Dallas, Texas has a very special and specific tradition: the ability to turn any ethnic or parochial holiday, no matter how obscure, into an excuse for a majority of its citizenry to drink themselves into comas. St. Patrick’s Day? Cinco de Mayo? Mardi Gras? Oktoberfest? Belo Glasnost? All are opportunities…

When Avian Dinosaurs Choose To Talk Back (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Some birds had hidden messages thrust upon their calls, while others brought the message on their own. In the case of the state bird of Texas, the messages had larger implications on avian intelligence. The northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, was renowned for centuries for both its incredible fidelity in reproducing calls of other…

The Legacy of the Classic Reality Series Monster Island (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (Portions of this installment previously appeared in The Hell’s Half-Acre Herald, October 2001) Introduction: Welcome, folks, to another exciting evening of (theme music and opening show logo) Monster Island! I’m your host Rand Hagen, and this is internationally famed cryptozoologist Marie Elspeth, and we’re broadcasting live from Biolar Island in the…

The Secret Masters of the Universe And Their Bookkeeping (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) At the beginning of the universe, there was LemonPig. At the end of the universe, there will be LemonPig. Through all of the intervening depths of space-time, LemonPig is the one and only. While being the one and only, LemonPig is also never alone, because in addition to the unlimited power…

Cold City, Warm Pub (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The bad news first: for those outside the US in general and outside of Texas in particular, we had a bit of weather at the end of January. It wasn’t as bad as the deep freeze of February 2021, where power was out over almost the whole state for a week, or the beginning of 2010,…

Time Is A Constant AND A Concept, And Should Never Be Confused (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Many issues complicate a proper understanding of the assembled annals of St. Remedius Medical College, and one is a proper understanding of time. That is, not just an understanding of perspective but of absolutes. The Kelvin scale exists to measure temperature starting at absolute zero, the temperature where…

An Update On What’s Happened So Far (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (Incoming message from the Hylocereus Cascade, the preferred telepathic transmission system between edible cacti) …signal repeating. Annual update on currently available information involving St. Remedius Medical College, transmitted across the Cascade at times of least interference. Signal XX7395TTYFI to acknowledge receipt, and drink deep of the data. Main categories include: The College: Current…

The Mystery and Dangers of Elyard-Amos Island (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) While examples of past and future life otherwise extinct are relatively common thanks to quantum pockets and chronal invasions, true “lost worlds” full of animal, plant, and fungus life extinct elsewhere run into a basic problem: the persistence of Earth life to pass beyond expected boundaries. As a rule, so-called “lost” valleys, islands,…

Introducing the Official St. Remedius Medical College Dessert, St. Remedius Pie (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) As with many educational institutions throughout space-time, the area around St. Remedius Medical College had particular taste sensations associated with it that translated poorly with attempted transplants elsewhere. For every Norman Cookler’s Widely Celebrated Deep-Fried Tarantula with franchises around the planet, there were fifteen Salt Licks that were less…

A Farewell to St. Remedius’s Influential Uncle These are the days of Angry Candy, and the funerals keep coming and will only stop when it’s my turn. If I had one friend who planned to interrupt his own funeral by lurching out of the coffin, ripping the minister’s throat out with his teeth, and then lumbering out to hang at the closest shopping mall, it would have been Rod Woodruff….

Modest Proposals For Dragging Literary Conventions Out Of the Twentieth Century, Part 2 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular…

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And so it begins.

The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College Of the many mysteries behind the famous/notorious educational institution known as the St. Remedius Medical College, the most enduring involves its recent destruction on an otherwise nondescript day in May. The annihilation of the entire campus was notable in that absolutely nobody was killed or even injured, and the only remaining trace of the college was a massive excavation just north of downtown…

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Rocketed from the dying planet Skaro as an infant, the individual known as “Paul Riddell” is a quantum probability that occasionally takes inspiration from Bell’s Theorem to manifest as a writer of fiction and nonfiction. The writer aspect manifested between 1989 and 2002, where, aside from a few relapses terminally regretted by everyone involved, the writer aspect was strangled in its bed and buried. Facets of that aspect are consolidated in the books Squashed Armadillocon (1993), Greasing the Pan: The “Best” of Paul T. Riddell (2009), and The Savage Pen of Onan: The “Best” of the Hell’s Half-Acre Herald (also 2009), available from fine thrift stores and composting bins everywhere. In 2002, the aspect changed upon contact with the indigenous carnivorous plants of Tallahassee, Florida (blame Jeff VanderMeer for this), ultimately leading to the creation and opening of the Texas Triffid Ranch, popularly described as “Dallas’s Pretty Much Only Carnivorous Plant Gallery,” which ran from 2015 to 2023. A massive increase in rent caused the Triffid Ranch to shut down in early 2023, with The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College starting on Substack in May 2024 before moving to the current location in 2025. Paul Riddell is currently not married, has no children other than a 10-kilo lint-covered breast implant that impersonates a cat, and currently deliberates on the individual so deserving of a severe karmic curb-stomping that s/he becomes executor of his literary estate.

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