Midnight in St. Petersburg
Like a light-bathed chicken I have been laying eggs around the clock.
Not so good for the jetlag timeshift, but still wonderful.
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Views From The Tank
Clowns at the circus
Gravid With Decay
Short recommendations, reviews, and cautionary tales about horror in fiction (mostly movies). Read through the archives and subscribe here.
Marginalia
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"Before we rolled out through the gate, I’d tell myself that I didn’t need to worry, because I was already dead. The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive."
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"The problem wasn’t that Sisyphus had to roll his boulder up a hill forever; it’s that he had to roll it alone."
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Same with me, clowns, same with me.
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I'm here for the needless politicization of tennis versus pickeball.
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Biomimicry meet reclaimed waste product.
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"Cities are where we see each other. People who don’t want to see hate that."
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How much do you know about lines?
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Documentary on Minnesota's failed attempt at a city of the future in the late 1960's.
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"Humanity, how are you doing on this beautiful Monday?"
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Amazing visualization of European lighthouses showing light color, actual pattern, and radius of visibility.