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Leveraging the Backlist

Medium Mines the Gold

Not to brag too much, but I’m kind of a seer. I see what you guys do not. I have a third eye of perception. It wasn’t opened through meditation or some super trendy ayahuasca trip, my powers came to me after eating a box of…

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Season of the Juggalos

This summer I read “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow. It’s a fascinating book. For years I…

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Wins and Waterloos

Why I Was Gone Right After I Came Back

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In Praise of Medium Poets

After reading Tony Stubblebine’s “Hello Medium readers, authors, editors, and publishers”¹ I read the comments. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of people I know. Right now, that article has 531 comments, and while I only recognized a small fraction of the authors, the fact…

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Well, Um. OK, I Guess

Well, here I am and there you are, gentle reader… distinguished reader… appreciated reader. I mean that sincerely. Even…

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The Editor Shows Up for Lunch

I heard a voice on the stairs. A big voice. I knew immediately it was Hughes.

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For $3000 I’ll Tell You About My Mother

On the now infamous Ev Williams post;

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Pee Wee Solves A Problem

The daffodils are up. Percy is feeding the lawn. We’re not wearing masks at The Mill because the virus is boring…

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An Interview With a Leprechaun

I heard a strange pinging sound in the basement, and fearful that it might be something wrong with the…

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Where Is Eidolon’s Eidolon?

During the long night of the GOPQ (Grand Old Party Q-Anon¹) I said to my older brother, whom I call ‘Boy’…

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The Athenaeum of Mushamaguntic, Northern United States. A salon of refuse. The repository for the library of dreck, the archive of prose comics, and the backlist of Mr. Mildew Omnimedia and publishing, LLC.
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