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Monthly Archives November 2009

Asteroid

Tweet“I’m sick of watching the news. TURN IT OFF!” Who needs to be constantly reminded of their impending death anyway. It’s not bad enough that we’re all gonna die but they have to keep reminding us. …CANNOT EXPLAIN WHY THEY DIDN‘T SEE IT SOONER. ONE ASTRONOMER COMMENTED THAT IT IS A BIG AREA TO COVER [...]

Posted 30 November 2009 † RR § fiction ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Brewing

Rick and his scone could be happy together. They could sing songs and float lazily on a gondola down a romantically lit waterway…

Posted 28 November 2009 † CW § fiction ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

Show Me What You’re Workin’ With!

So you’re a secretary, huh? Answer my phone. Then we’ll see just how good you are.

Posted 28 November 2009 † CW § essay ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Here Comes The Future

TweetOne of the tragedies of our time is that we’ve caught up to our future. Star Trek, in the mid-60s, posited that there would be something called the “Eugenics Wars” in the late 1990s. Gene Roddenberry didn’t worry about making up this rather silly (in hindsight) bit of canon arcana, because, after all, 1999 was [...]

Posted 27 November 2009 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Thank God It’s Friday

TweetWater poured into the streets from the rooftops above a bustling city. The roads quickly swelled with water and another rainy weekend seemed all the more likely. She frowned and spun the chair around to face the stack of paperwork that had dominated the day, the week, her life. Still, from sixty-three floors above the [...]

Posted 27 November 2009 † BT § fiction ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,