Category: Personal Interlude

Personal Interlude: “The Postcard Liberation Front”

More Free Weirdness By Mail From St. Remedius (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 updates of how the sausage…

Personal Interlude: “The Long Way Home”

A Quick But Necessary Discussion About Bicycling In Dallas and Other Parts North Texas, 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…

Personal Interlude: “Load Up and Out”

A Quick But Necessary Discussion About Bicycling In Dallas and Other Parts North Texas, 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…

Personal Interlude: “My World Is Fire and Blood”

A Quick But Necessary Discussion About Bicycling In Dallas and Other Parts North Texas, Part 1 (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…

Personal Interlude: “Going Through the Receipts”

Has It REALLY Been That Long? (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 updates of how the sausage is made,…

Personal Interlude: “A Date With Density”

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…

St. Remedius Events: Feast of St. Remedius 2026 – The Aftermath

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,…

Personal Interlude: “See You On the Dark Side”

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….

Personal Interlude: “Spicing The Variety of Life”

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…

Personal Interlude: “Telegrams From The End of 2025”

So What Happens In 2026? That Honestly Depends. (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 updates of how the sausage…