Ruminations on the Hero Lanterns and Their Origins (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Some of the universe’s greatest treasures were meant to be discovered, and of those, the greatest were the artifacts known as Hero Lanterns. Their original purpose and makers remain unknown, even to the greatest scryers and prognosticators of the Anthropocene, and debate continues up and down the timestream as to the intention…
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St. Remedius Radio: “Musical Thrones”
Introducing Carrie Neil, The Musical Omnimath (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) In the glory days of St. Remedius Radio, one of the most-desired guest performers on the Saturday night show “Repent, Harlequin” was the local musician Carrie Neil. Even by Dallas musical standards, Carrie was a marvel, as she was not just a musical polymath, but an omnimath. Vocals, guitar, saxophone, piano, theremin, tuba, chopsticks,…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Abandon Gorge Ye Who Enter Here”
Dallas Boasts Many Outstanding Restaurants. The Warnell Harkun Diner Was Not One Of Them. (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Aspect #1: Sometimes because of, and sometimes in spite of, the influence of St. Remedius Medical College, the greater Dallas, Texas area built a reputation in the 1990s for innovative cuisine and kept it going through the 21st Century Gregorian. The home of the frozen margarita…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Strange Pets And Broken Owners”
Everyone Talks About Wanting Exotic Pets, Nobody Talks About Entitled Keepers (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (From the St. Remedius Archives, June 31, 20XX. All rights reserved.) This is KREG, 88.7 FM, Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton, and this is Call Sign. I’m your host, Kayla Anno. This morning, we look at a new exhibition on the career of Professor Josiah Carberry of Brown University, how changes to…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Signs, Portents, and Blatant Advertising”
When the Sigils And Guardians Remember, Even When The Corporate World Doesn’t (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Most of St. Remedius Medical College’s thaumaturgy and applied mysticism majors, after passing their Zwinge Foundation certifications, famously went on to long careers in corporate magic, and most stayed close to St. Remedius for their entire careers. It wasn’t because of college nostalgia or a desperate fear of…
Baking Through the Apocalypse: “Harkun Pepper Roulette”
How Diplomacy Between Humanity and Cretaceous Saurians Involved Exactly The Right Challenge (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A major point to be considered in any discussion of the Harkun and their presence in the greater Dallas, Texas area is that no other nonhuman demographic has the same relationship with the majority modern-human population. The residents of the Denisovian Embassy, aside from football games, tend to…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Not By The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chinchilla”
The Day The Universe Changed and The Beginnings of the Quantum War (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) On one thing, the world’s outstanding authorities agree: Something Happened. When it happened, nobody is sure. How it happened, nobody is sure. That event was what started the continuum-spanning conflagration known as the Quantum War, or maybe it was what started it. Some attribute it to a weasel…
St. Remedius Events: “The March of the Watching Parties”
A New Option For St. Remedius Enthusiasts From the Comfort Of Your Own Device (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) And there we were, gazing over the edge of the crevasse, wondering if we’d have the chance to escape before it crawled out of the gap, when the phone rang… Oh,. Sorry. I’ll clean up the mess later. (I’ve put it away, Mother, I’ve put it…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Ghosts, Echoes, and Lipstick Traces”
The Saga of Las Colinas and Its Thaumaturgic Rebirth (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the more complicated aspects of chronicling the effects of St. Remedius Medical College on the greater Dallas area, both before and after the College’s disappearance, involves the various artifacts of city development that might be misconstrued. Was the giant half-ruined castle atop a hill overlooking one of the local…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Ecology of the Discarded”
Lots Of Discarded Critters Make Dallas What It Is (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Dallas bows to no city in its variety of indigenous versus introduced wildlife, with jokes that synthetic and metaphysically generated forms will outnumber standard biological forms in future Trinity River fossil beds. During its existence in the Dallas area, St. Remedius Medical College conducted extensive surveys of local life and its…