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does Sunnydale make sense?

Vampire Population Ecology (pdf). 2006: New improved link.

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twin study

Satur-evening at Walgreens I happened to see a photograph that had just been picked up: two women in Halloween costume as Frida Kahlo (with a brush) and her self-portrait (in a frame).

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high concept

One can dream.

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tits over time

Some public-spirited person has posted [and soon thereafter removed] all of Playboy’s centerfolds from Norma Jean to Miss October 2002. (I can’t resist a complete series of anything at all interesting.) It’s not without interest to compare the earlier and … Continue reading

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1897-1997

Teller doesn’t talk, but he writes. His story A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties, a sequel to Max Beerbohm’s “Enoch Soames” (which I read sometime in the Eighties), almost makes me wish I’d thought of making the same pilgrimage. Teller’s account … Continue reading

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one hundred eighteen

Periodic Table of Science Fiction: Michael Swanwick is writing a short-short story for each of the elements, one a week.

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Vlad the . . .

Silly puns like this are only a small part of what you’re missing if you don’t read Soap on a Rope. Say not that I warned thee not.

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