What to Watch When Downtime Is Inevitable (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) It’s Friday night. Homework is done. Those students assigned to check on experiments or feed lab animals have a few hours before the tardigrades rip through the cage bars and run amok. The students at St. Remedius Medical College were no different from any other college student in the state of Texas after…
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St. Remedius Radio: “We Call Ourselves…’The Audiophiles’!”
Dallas’s Greatest Musical Protest And Its St. Remedius Connection (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Every year on the first Friday of April Gregorian, a very special tradition runs at the Matilda Theater just north of downtown Dallas, Texas. At 7:00 that evening, the Matilda opens not to the general public, but to a select group of journalists, mostly music critics, all specially invited. No itinerary…
St. Remedius Radio: “The Reason For the Season”
The All-Night Christmas Cover Show at the Matilda Theater (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For decades, the city of Dallas, Texas was known for its winter holiday celebrations, particularly at its most prominent religious institutions: its shopping malls. Every year, malls and stores competed to recreate the best documentary about Dallas holiday events ever made, with the attendant parking lot demolition derbies, trial by combat…
St. Remedius Radio: “An Excess of Riches”
October Sun Brings Autumn Fun (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (From the weekly newspaper Creative Onanism, available online and from bins across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. First copy is free; all additional copies are $2.50, payable in cash, card, Bitcoin, and magic beans.) It’s mid-October, and you know what that means? For most of you, this means the annual Red River Rivalry, where watching 22 clods…
St. Remedius Medical College: “If It Wasn’t Free, We Couldn’t Give It Away”
Introducing Creative Onanism (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Once upon a time, there was a geologic epoch known as the 1990s. These were the days of the great Journalism Wars, where advertisers realized that the best way to Be Seen was by becoming connected to something “edgy.” Some invested in designer sodas or sponsoring trendy alcohol, and others invested in monthly house magazines. The best…
St. Remedius Medical College: Dramatis Personae – 4
Background on Major St. Remedius Personnel and Related Individuals At the Time of Its Disappearance (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Dr. Terry Martinson In a place such as St. Remedius Medical College, where personalities and egos had to be oversized just to keep up, only a few former faculty could be considered “larger than life.” Dr. Terry Martinson, professor of Metaphysics, was one of the…