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Satirical writings and commentaries. Satire works when it is nearly true.
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Nov 17, 2017
How I write so many timely think pieces.
Without being sarcastic even once.
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Aug 23, 2017
What’s the point of getting to the point?
I have occasionally been accused of rambling.
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Aug 17, 2017
I write. I don’t talk.
The mime thing? Not a joke.
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Jun 15, 2017
The anti-social gnat cloud of withered confidence.
Whatever happened to saying hello?
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Aug 4, 2016
Rejection from The Carve Magazine’s Short Fiction Contest
And My Experiment with “Literary” Fiction
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Aug 2, 2016
Civilization is really just an organized panic about bears.
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Sun Tzu and The Art of Troll Baiting
Arguments with internet trolls are the modern gladiator fights.
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Dec 3, 2015
Today, the Thing I Have in Common with Bilbo Baggins and the Thing he has in Common with Hamlet
Sometimes, we must face despair.
Everything goes to shit all at once and we can see no escape. In such moments, when we…
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Jan 12, 2016
A Letter to Myself from Myself on the Subject of Why Stories Matter
Escape by Drowning
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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore
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Feb 20, 2016
To Prepare for Anything from Job Interviews to Club Hopping…
Dress Like a Jedi
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