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Paradigm Shifts
Yes, they can happen in JUST ONE NIGHT. Roll with the flow. ——————— [ Delightful new work by Jonathan Kieran is slated for major release in 2024 so brace yourselves and think of England. This stuff is built for speed.…
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Scallops Are Tasty But Not Worth Your Life
People who have become accustomed to entering an ocean habitat for which they are ill-equipped to maneuver without complex protective mechanisms (e.g. mini-submersible cages, etc.) need to get something through their thick heads: Great White Shark populations are being replenished…
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Diocesan Dereliction
In 2023, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Diocese of Oakland, and the Franciscan Friars of Oakland, CA, all filed bankruptcy to protect their institutions from paying settlements to well over 600 sexual abuse claimants. And this is happening with…
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What? You Expect Them to Start Doing It on Instagram?
Marine biologists can bemoan all they want the fact that no one has ever seen great white sharks mate. No video footage—drone, hidden camera, or otherwise—exists to quench this voracious human curiosity about the manner in which the majestic apex…
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Distract Your Brain From the Impending Apocalypse
I’m busy finishing a novel so I haven’t much desire to rant and rave or “observe” society in its woeful spiral, plus I just got out of bed and am tackling the first cup of coffee as rain batters the…
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Ask a Bookseller and Find the Treasure
I can vouch for the accuracy of THIS FINE ARTICLE at LitHub. A seasoned bookseller is not only a rare and precious commodity these days, but worth his or her weight in gold. Anyone involved with books who truly knows…
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Wider World Looking Like the Same Old Sheet?
Sure it is. We aren’t witnessing anything new under the sun. This has all happened before, for millennia, in fluctuating states and conditions. Chaos redux, curtain calls, and encores endless. But individuals can make a difference, if only in their…
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And This is the Reason Christians of the East Don’t Employ Statues
First of all, THIS WAS NOT JESUS taking an embarrassing tumble and breaking numerous facial features and limbs. This was a shitty plastic or composite-formed work of asinine art created to supposedly represent Jesus, being trundled around by an assortment…
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When Sharks Cruise the Shopping Aisles
I have seen extremely large hammerhead sharks do THIS VERY THING during my years in Florida. It’s deliciously spooky to watch a fifteen-foot hammerhead cruise along slowly, parallel to the shoreline, in shallow, clear water, as if perusing cuts of…
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Winding It Down to Rev it Up
Three major new works will be coming in the following four years. And that, my friends, will be the last of the literary output aimed directly at any sort of commercial or mainstream markets. That being said, there will be…