More Vagaries About Downtown Dallas, More Insufficient Answers (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Four decades ago, the city of Dallas, Texas faced its largest potential extinction event yet. With the exception of the initial Harkun invasion and the last femtoseconds of the Quantum War, no event threatened Dallas more than when the greater Texas petrochemical industry, horribly overextended due to speculation and…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Project 236: The Great Highland Park Armadillo Hunt”
“Walk Softly But Carry a Big Stink” or “Shit for Brains, Born To Swill” (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) If Dallas had to choose between patron deities, the choice would fall between Some Guy and the Great God Football. Some Guy was everpresent, both the blind idiot god at the center of the universe and his malevolent servitor, and his worshippers similarly…
St. Remedius Medical College: “Mirth and Megalosaurs”
The Backstory on Jayme’s Kaiju Bar, One of Dallas’s Great Open Secrets (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Cold War military enthusiasts make much of September 1, 1952, when during incoming thunderstorms hitting Fort Worth, a tornado touched down on the edge of what was then known as Carswell Air Force Base and damaged two-thirds of the United States fleet of B-36 Peacemaker bombers, then the…
Baking Through the Apocalypse: “Manifesting Collage Season”
St. Remedius’s Great Cooking Tradition As A Method of Expediting Autumn (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) All through Texas, its institutes of higher learning have their individual ways of welcoming new students and reestablishing connections between returning ones. Southern Methodist University has the annual Running of the Coke Dealers. Baylor College has Rohypnol Roulette. The University of Texas at Austin features its “Don’t Trip on…
St. Remedius Radio Special: “The Rains In Dallas Fall Mainly Elsewhere”
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…
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 Medical College: “Cities In Fight”
Tales of the Dallas/Fort Worth Wars, and the Void That Is Arlington (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Look upon the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth. Close enough to travel by car, horse, and even bicycle in a day, but permanently separated by both ideology and blackest sorcery. Two near-sentient metropolises with the psychic bonds of fraternal cojoined twins, both desperately fighting for individuality and…
Mandatory Parker: “Svelte and Sociability”
Where We All Continue To Get Used To The Beast That Is Winston Please have pity for Parker these days. The Lint-Covered Breast Implant is having issues as of late. To begin, he’s the “10-Kilo Lint-Covered Breast Implant” no longer. In the six months since his life was torn asunder and the supremacy in his household challenged, Parker lost approximately three kilos, and as of this week, he’s at a…
Personal Interlude: “August Blues and Their Mitigations”
So What’s Going On Behind the Curtain? (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular updates of how the sausage is…
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….