Category Archives: The Facts of Life

The Match King’s Son

Tommy was his name. His father made millions of, and in, matches with which to light a fire or a cigarette, packed in those little boxes we all had in our kitchens. The Match King’s princeling was blond, loud and … Continue reading

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That humanoid teaching assistant? Uh

Harper’s Weekly Review told me, and I immediately told you, about some humanoid action going on, including the introduction of a humanoid teaching assistant in Salamanca, a town in far-southwestern New York State. So far southwest it’s almost skidding off … Continue reading

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To semi-quote Dubya, “This is some weird shit.”

Delivered to my email by Harper’s Weekly Review, probably using a humanoid to do it: Astronomers announced that a four-carbon sugar typically found in raspberries was discovered in interstellar space; it was announced that a meteorite that crashed in New … Continue reading

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