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….
St. Remedius Medical College: “Lighting The Never-Ending Darkness”
Ruminations on the Hero Lanterns and Their Origins (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Some of the universe’s greatest treasures were meant to be discovered, and of those, the greatest were the artifacts known as Hero Lanterns. Their original purpose and makers remain unknown, even to the greatest scryers and prognosticators of the Anthropocene, and debate continues up and down the timestream as to the intention…
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 Medical College: “Abandon Gorge Ye Who Enter Here”
Dallas Boasts Many Outstanding Restaurants. The Warnell Harkun Diner Was Not One Of Them. (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Aspect #1: Sometimes because of, and sometimes in spite of, the influence of St. Remedius Medical College, the greater Dallas, Texas area built a reputation in the 1990s for innovative cuisine and kept it going through the 21st Century Gregorian. The home of the frozen margarita…