christopher

"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future."

Jorge Luis Borges (18991986)

Sometimes, writing blogs for SG can be grueling, especially when trying to find just the right article to comment on. Usually, I spend a lot of time trying to narrow the topic down, or fishing for something not said in other blogs, or things that aren't necessarily "news of the weird", but more compelling of that...like human interest that speaks to the deep sordid history...
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Bully for them, I say. Bully for them both.

Christ Almighty, it's a slow news day.

"But Aquaman! You can't marry her, she doesn't have gills!"
"Oh. I have wasted my life."

Sing to me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous city of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might...
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So much love and hate...and they both seem to grow and be cultivated in this world. The sum is some sort of gray mixture, like physicists will say the universe will do because of heat loss. Except it keeps getting more and more gray. Intensely gray. Not light fray, but a gray that smells like skin.
I miss my friends: one is going through a...
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I imagine this is the point where I separate like a surfeited cell, splitting down the center like some sick, water-filled melon, and walking away from me in two different directions. Sometimes, this happens three ways.

Housesitting this weekend. I miss hanging out with people that set me at ease, people that I like, and mu nice Mac.

Mqx wrote this. Even though I disagree with parts of it, it was awesome enough that I wanted these words to be mine. It helps me become a better writer, a more attentive debater, and (really) was nice in its critique (except for the part about his friend...that's just cold).
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That's silly. It immediately sweeps aside and makes worthless the millions of women who...
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