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. A gigantic, bronzed statue of a dame, Gleaming limbs 'neath 'lectric sunlamp tanned; Below yon giant lamppost, see her stand— ...

. "A recent study by the Food and Drug Administration reveals that over 90% of all alcoholics started with beer. The yellow-ish colore...

. This has been festering in my head for a while. THE OLD COLOSSUS I met a human from a time-lost land Who said: “A woman, bronze, wit...

It's a long one this time! . ALEXANDER BUMSTEAD No disrespect to Dad, of course, but I never really understood Why Mom insiste...

It's Ben Light again (see also January 11, 2009)! Last time we had the science fiction utopian tale of the scientific robot man. This t...

. from January 26, 2001 (quoting myself): I've been reading Marlowe lately. Great stuff. Nobody could begin a story like him: For ...

RIP HAYWIRE Sweet Mother Macreedy! I hate to disappoint you, But if you’re here for a tearful admission  Of my gnawing fears and secr...

. DAGWOOD BUMSTEAD Dithers came at me with the ash tray. I ran, of course. One minute, I was tossing paper airplanes with Crane in Payro...

. The dam of silence burdens us too hard Behind our brow, the pressure's far too high The hand we hold leaves us no other card, So co...

. It was merciful. There I was, looking down at the contorted shape that had been my car, thinking that the idea I'd been trying ...

DENNIS MITCHELL How does it happen that Mr. Wilson outlived me? I was young, with decades yet to go, And I reminded him of it every...

. "On one night of the year…" Kurt drove for hours, back to his home town. Flying would have taken longer, so he endured th...

. 10: Tried to promote military uses of gravity, but farmers of the day couldn't deliver enough weaponized Granny Smiths. 9: Was...

. I. 1983 After a bus ride from hell, I arrived in Colorado from Texas and took refuge at a former schoolmate's house and phoned o...

. My friend Harry has been searching out the etymology of Fanboy, and this was my contribution to the effort. It's from a biography of ...

. Some years back, I found a trade paperback called JUMBO COMIC BOOK that reprinted a large pile of diddly little pre-Code funny animal com...

. Mixed feelings about the end of another semester. It's like how the end of every play I'm in turns into the last episode of M*A*S...

. The clever stratagem of taking an art class has worked, in that I am producing some art. I might even sell some of it — lovely thought. ...

. Not long after moving here, I was looking at a cemetery about a mile from our house, and found the grave of a likely relative. Likely, be...

. It makes sense that I should post this somewhere I can point to it, since I still do that. Up to now, I've simply given a link to som...