Author: Kier
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X-Men, Marshmallow Men, Puberty, Fire Phone, Isolation, and the Clown Motel of Your Nightmares
Technically, I’m still in the middle of my last big road trip. See, the plan was, after quitting my job at the newspaper up in rural NY (with nothing else lined up), I was going to cruise down to Atlanta for Dragon Con that year, then continue on down to Florida for a little while,…
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A lot of humor (and some action) to counter-balance the really disturbing bits of news
Another kind of crazy day, but there was plenty of humor to distract online (or so it seems). That’s good because some of the news items that came across my various feeds were more than a little disheartening. Mostly politics and environmental stuff… and I didn’t bother to re-share many of them because I just…
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More than a few days worth of stuff (Including science, cats, politics, Fathers Day, and a whole lot of Johnny Cash)
Not much of an intro today. It was a low-key weekend (after the out-way-too-late game night, at least) and a busy Monday. It’s going to be hot and humid the rest of the week. Can’t say I care much for that combination. Hopefully, the A/C unit can handle it. Anyway, on with the catch-up feed…
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Birdman, Open Source Cars, Facts of Life, Fashion WTF, an Awesome Ghostrider, and Bunches of History
Was just on a trip down memory lane with a friend I met long ago in a hotel. She’s one of the handful of people I’m still in touch with that I met during Key Club conventions in high school. Those weekend-long conventions were some of the best times I ever had in high school.…
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Short Short Stories, Green Fetish, Warp Speed, Color Capture, He Says He Didn’t Know, Russian Homophobia, and ER Perspective
Amid the slightly less hectic waves of work, I had the chance to read a couple of interesting–and infuriating–news articles today. One of the big ones was about Archbishop Robert Carlson, one of the far too many higher-ups in the Catholic Church who were involved with the whole child sex abuse scandal. According to him, he…