The End of August and the Stress of Texas Summer (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) In most places in the Northern Hemisphere, the end of August marks the beginning of the end of summer. Temperatures fall, the jackets and warmer blankets come out, and thoughts turn to soups, baked goods, and casseroles. The air abounds with cinnamon and dying leaf, and no wincing when touching…
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St. Remedius Radio: “You Can Take The Girl Out of Jersey…”
Introducing Dr. Dominique Russo, St. Remedius’s Most Famous Botanist (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Believe you me, she heard it all. The comments about “which offramp did you grow up on?” The queries about favorite brands of pork roll and the best places to go crabbing. The wiseacres asking about her overly loquacious brother and his mute hetero life partner. (They were even more confused…
St. Remedius Radio: “Pray For Monday”
Monday Isn’t The Worst Day of the Week (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) In most places in the world, the day of the week most dreaded in the Gregorian calendar is Monday. Monday means a return to stasis after a weekend of wild. Nobody sings songs about their joy of getting up on a Monday morning, not the way they sing about the impending weekend….
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 Radio: “The Number of the Beak”
Come Summer, The Unique Dallas Explosion (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) (Originally published in Funny Maundering magazine: July 20xx. All rights reserved.) Nature is full of examples of animals and plants that spend years building up energy, emerging to spread, and then dying off. Cicadas, certain species of bamboo, walking crepe myrtles. There are also the examples of organisms that drastically change their physiology based…
St. Remedius Radio: “Quantum Ramen”
One Reason Why St. Remedius Students Kept Coming Back (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The first week of the summer semester at St. Remedius Medical College always hit differently for the students who returned home for the summer versus those who stayed on campus or worked intern slots with Dallas industries. Without fail, those who spent the summer away from campus gradually looked at the…
St. Remedius Radio: “The Best of Times, The End of Times”
Celebrating What Would Have Been The End of The St. Remedius School Year (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) At any other time, the end of May would have marked the end of the school year at St. Remedius Medical College. Graduation ceremonies, dorm cleanouts, promises to stay in touch, and offers to hang out over the summer. This being St. Remedius, many of the students…
St. Remedius Radio: “Finals and Lapels”
How St. Remedius Students Recovered From Finals (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Many institutes of higher learning have traditions at the end of the school year, particularly around finals. Whether Caltech’s Ditch Day or Southern Methodist University’s Running of the Coke Dealers, most involve releasing stress just before or just before the main rush of final exams. St. Remedius Medical College took the theme to…
St. Remedius Radio: “Greyshaming And Other Side-Eyes”
The One Great Texas Growth Industry (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Compared to other places in the universe, Earth was relatively paltry in contemporary visitation from other intelligences. Back before anyone on Earth had a baseline for what constituted an “average” rate of visitation, experts of all sorts argued the reasons. Was it because intelligent life elsewhere was so rare, was it because intelligences had…
St. Remedius Radio: “The Stuff May Stop, But It Never Ends”
Whatever Happens To St. Remedius Surplus? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) In addition to the detritus of exonormal research, one of the legacies of the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College involved the intended end products. Even with the College’s disappearance, the greater Dallas area was loaded with toolboxes, repositories, accumulations, dumps, and armories of necessary, obvious, and opportunistic devices, mechanisms, collectives, manifestations, and echoes….