by Jeb Boniakowski
Appearing here Wednesdays, Turning The Screw provides existential crisis counseling for…
4th #millionqueries: far future scifi. begins with rhetorical question (and protag. waking up.) Pass.
— Jennifer Udden (@suddenlyjen) January 23, 2013
10th #millionqueries: literary fiction, story of abuse…
by Stephen Whitlock
It’s 1976.
Let’s pretend for a minute that there is a Hell, that bad deeds actually do draw the
punishment promised by Scripture: Would you be going there? How great are your crimes? We’ll assume your sins against society are actually of the…
“If we can mine asteroids, why not paint the Moon to make it brighter?” — Why not indeed? Let’s make that bitch look like a circus clown that other clowns are like, “Oh my God, how much make-up is that clown wearing, what a CLOWN WHORE.” I’ll trowel on the first coat myself!
Hey, Facebook is good for something! It’s allowing researchers to gather lots of data on people’s behavior before they kill themselves.
“It is truly, truly awful — like the worst flatulent person ever standing with their back turned to you.” — The centuries of conflict between France and England, relatively dormant for the last few years, are now playing themselves out as farce.
In the spirit of such provocative debates as “Is Up Down,” “Is Black White?” and “Is The Absence Of Light Really The Presence Of Light?” the New York Times asks, “Is Atheism A Religion?”
★★★★ Authoritative. Clouds clotted over the morning, then went away again, but the sky meant nothing…
my beloved fans, sad to confirm that it is true. Don’t Trust the B — — #apt23 has been cancelled. thank you so much for your support i love u
— krysten ritter (@Krystenritter) January 22, 2013
“The findings of this study come at a time when our country is slowly recovering from the onslaught of negative presidential campaign ads chalked with topics such as the weak economy, gun violence, war, deep political divides, just to name a few…
“Even Valery Rizzo, who teaches a class in iPhone food photography, thinks the trend has crossed a line.”
