Silence
An antidote to the banal expressions that accompany our deepest feelings: March 19, 2010
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Archive for the Scribbles Category
Ode To A Bowl Full Of Breath Mints
Instead of staring at the damn thing, why didn't Keats look inside the urn? Maybe he would have found candies or cigarette butts. Instead he just
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Disaster Scenario
In the Western world, the worst thing that could happen is to discover that one has run out of toilet paper. March 12, 2010
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Freedom to Screw Up
I think one of the greatest freedoms we can accord one another is the freedom to be mistaken.
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Story Idea: Body in Suburbia
Police discover a body leaning against a swing set in a park in the middle of suburbia. It's in the advanced stages of decomposition, with one of th
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Comment Spam
Ever notice the generic congratulatory tone of comment spam (e.g. "What a wonderful and insightful post. Please keep writing. Loved it.") and then
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on-off – chicken-egg
The on/off switch. The transistor. The basis of binary code. What if it's all wrong? What if the physical universe functions on a ternary syst
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A story is …
A story is a proposition whose argument is its author's world view. Yes? No? hmmm
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