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…
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St. Remedius Radio: “Anarchy In the USNPC”
Fending Off Social Parasites On the Individual and Societal Level (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For all the voluminous collections of parasites in museums and universities around the world, precious few contain classifications, breeding data, and suggestions on integrated pest management for social parasites. Scientific literature is full of surmisals that the incredible variety of life on Earth today is due to attempts to adapt…
St. Remedius Radio: “Earwax: The Discovery of Social Media Among the Vampires”
Social Media: The Great Awakening or The Great Extinction? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) At first, the spread of Internet access in the mid-1990s was a blessing among the more tech-savvy of supernatural and paranatural species. By the middle of the Twentieth Century, most of the fae susceptible to technology and its waste products had either migrated to areas free of television and radio signals…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Auction of the Anomalous”
Just where DO Bazaars of the Bizarre get their stock? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Every city has one, all deliberately placed in just the right locale for the maximum amount of mystery. Some have signs advertising mysteries and secrets. Others merely advertise “Antiques” and let the buyer discover what lies inside. The ones with billboards and Facebook ads are usually full of junk: worthless…
St. Remedius Radio: “Thou Shalt Suffer A Witch To Work A Day Job”
Close Enough For Thaumaturgic Work (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) By the time of the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College, both magic and psionics were not only established and well-mapped phenomena, but they were promptly ground up and spat out in the never-ending quest to pay the rent. Thaumaturgy was just like tech or journalism: a few particularly deluded, incompetent, and/or ethically bereft got…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Porkskin Preview”
The Saga of St. Remedius’s Only Foray Into College Sports (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A much-accepted aspect of student life at St. Remedius Medical College was the near-total lack of collegiate sports teams. In any ranking of “America’s Best Party Colleges,” St. Remedius ranked at the absolute bottom, alongside Caltech, MIT, Brigham Young, and the Pablo Cortez Art Academy in Phoenix, Arizona instead of…
St. Remedius Radio: “Once In Every Lifetime…”
When SPG Inherited The Earth (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College coincided with the disappearance of many of its potential nemeses, a post-St. Remedius world still needed a reasonably well-financed organization to deal with exonormal issues, threats and otherwise. For a good portion of the world, this responsibility fell upon the collective SPG, formed in the early 1990s to…
St. Remedius Radio: “The Silver Machine”
Surmisals On The Identity Of One Of The Universe’s Most Famed Time Travelers (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Of all of the faculty at St. Remedius Medical College at the point of its disappearance, only a few generated more speculation, more rumors, more assumptions, and more blatant fabrications in the time since the disappearance than the identity and origin of the head of the St….
St. Remedius Radio: “Storm”
Notes and Chords From The Quantum War (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Underlying everything, everywhere, is the threat of the Quantum War. The Quantum War was old when the Vuun were the indigenous intelligence on Earth, and the Quantum War had just started in the final microseconds of the universe. The Quantum War ranged for billions of years across all of space and time, and…
St. Remedius Radio: “We’re Staying On The Air!”
Welcome to a new feature at the Annals of St. Remedius Medical College: the weekly St. Remedius Radio installment. Inspired partly by Jayme Lynn Blaschke’s Friday Night Videos installments and partly by the “Have A Great Weekend” installments on the late great Jack Bogdanski Blog, expect regular installments of the sort of music you’d expect to hear on St. Remedius’s student-run radio station, at various clubs, and in the background…