Monthly Archives: June 2003

drugs of choice

(I’d tried caffeine a few times; it made me believe I was focused and energetic, but it turned my judgment to shit. Widespread use of caffeine explained a lot about the twentieth century.) Andrew Worth, narrator of Distress (1995) by … Continue reading

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truth in the courtroom, please

Mary Lou Seymour writes, apparently parroting the Fully Informed Jury Association: This Wednesday, June 4, 2003, Ed Rosenthal is scheduled to be sentenced for growing medical marijuana in California. As you may recall, back in February after Rosenthal was convicted, … Continue reading

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the sound of sunlight

Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese: is synæsthesia metaphor, or is metaphor synæsthesia?

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demilitarize fictional space!

Don’t you wish that just once there could be a tv series where the chief executive of a space station is called Mayor or Abbess or even Baron rather than Commander?

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