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“There is nothing on the internet as interesting as the book you are supposed to be writing. Get back to work.” – David Lubar (via Shaken & Stirred)

One of the strongest arguments for continuing to teach history is the incredible sense of freedom it gives an individual who’s grown up thinking that the cultural norms, the “reality” that they’ve grown up in is just “the way things are” or “the way things have always been.” Spent some time studying history, and every

I just finished re-reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground. I read it and loved it when it first came out, lured by a stunning review of the book by Michael Moorcock. This time around, as I re-read Veniss I started to think about what draws me back to particular books. I don’t re-read a lot of

In the not-so-distant future, worshipping God not only goes out of vogue, but becomes illegal, and worship of the body takes center stage. Too fat? Too thin? Too old? Too ugly? If you don’t look like Ken or Barbie, it’s all right to rejoice, because gyms, spas, lipo and face-lift clinics have become places of

“If you’re afraid to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

In honor of the first annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, here’s Two Girls. This story’s been freely available on and off for years, but never sold. In addition, of course, there are the stories freely available on the sidebar.

Nickelback: Rockstar I’m through with standin’ in lineat clubs I’ll never get inIt’s like the bottom of the ninthand I’m never gonna winthis life hasn’t turned out quite the way I want it to be(Tell me what you want) I want a brand new house on an episode of CribsAnd a bathroom I can play

I picked up a copy of The Good German at Heathrow, mainly because it has this winning first line: “The war had made him famous.” This is a beautifully written thriller set in Berlin just after the German surrender during WWII. The novel revolves around the murder of a nobody American soldier (in the Russian-occupied

Lost words.