The Lint-Covered Breast Implant’s Favorite Chair Has A Long History It shouldn’t be a surprise that Parker has a favorite chair: a big black slingback chair, all steel pipe and nylon cover that was inexplicably popular as apartment furniture in the late 1980s, that I was given in the early 1990s. Shortly after getting him home for the first time, he demonstrated his tastes in furnishings and in entertainment by…
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St. Remedius Medical College: “Where The Elite Meet To Retreat From Meaty Tweets”
There’s More To Dallas Cuisine Than Food Trucks (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) As the saying goes, an army runs on its stomach, and the collected students, faculty, contractors, and staff of St. Remedius Medical College qualified as an army, in perseverance if not in weaponry. The convoy of food trucks outside the campus gates were just part of the efforts to keep everyone happy…
St. Remedius Medical College: "Stop Me Before I Revenate Again"
A discussion of the serial resurrector plague (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Before its disappearance, St. Remedius Medical College experts were regularly called upon by law enforcement, inside and outside the solar system and space-time continuum, to engage in solving various crimes against humans and others. Poisoning of urban fae energy hubs, unauthorized time travel slumming, transmutation of gold to urine, retroactive forgery of documents…
Backstories: "Literary Science Fiction Editors Announce International Slushpile Bonfire Day"
In the age on NaNoWriMo, the holiday we need (Backstory the First: The reason things have been quiet on the newsletter front lies with the loss of my oldest and dearest friend Paul Mears, who died on July 11. It’s exceedingly hard to describe how hard this hit: we had been friends for nearly 45 years, and just trying to collect a greatest hits of our exploits is both time-consuming…
Backstories: "The Wrath of Cat Piss Man"
A partial tribute to my best friend, the late Paul Mears, part three of several (Backstory the First: The reason things have been quiet on the newsletter front lies with the loss of my oldest and dearest friend Paul Mears, who died on July 11. It’s exceedingly hard to describe how hard this hit: we had been friends for nearly 45 years, and just trying to collect a greatest hits…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Fissures in the Mandela Effect”
Just why do thousands of Canadians remember the Irate Ian movie series? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a cigar is actually a VibroMaster 9000 with the optional AC adaptor attachment and kick-starter. While understanding of the false memory phenomenon known as the Mandela effect can explain many issues in pop culture, such as thirty years of…