Sorry for the late late update today.

In any case, we return now to our regular programming. By now, I probably mean tomorrow morning. But you know.

Silly genre fictions are back.

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The enormous popularity of CBS's island series and its various spin-offs directed the popular imagination towards banal fictional worlds and superficial conflicts among bland, one-dimensional characters. Thus the lives of real people who must live and survive on islands on a daily basis were trivialized and eventually such people were completely ( Read more... )

Under new management, Sushi Express changed its name to Sushi Deluxe and acquired a new, state-of-the-art communication system for servers and chefs, a system known as instant messaging. All instant message conversations are closely supervised by the manager. Here is just one of the many that show up on his computer screen on a typical evening ( Read more... )

I was born sarcastic. When I emerged from my mother's womb, I apparently told the doctor ( Read more... )

It is graduation day. The students, sprawled inside an enormous labyrinth of hidden hallways, bounce off of each other like ants in an attempt to surmise the suggested relational arrangement of their bodies. I’m not there yet. I’m always late for everything. I await graduation in Allan Hepburn’s dimly lit apartment, which is identical to my ( Read more... )

It had been completely preventable. Someone should have seen it coming. Hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits. Children who had lost their eyesight. Adults who had gotten cancer. All eyes were on me. How could you? Now do you understand the price of negligence? I never knew what to say ( Read more... )

I always felt bad about asking my friend for rides home from school because her house was right next to the school. One night she confused the two and went to sleep in the school. She woke up the next morning and went home, wondering why everyone, including the teacher, had skipped biology, while her mother was strangely present. At that point I ( Read more... )

Sensational revolution in eavesdropping ( Read more... )

The text surrounded by stars transcribes snippets of conversation heard through the narrator's first-floor window.The leaning tower of books on gender and queer theory stood precariously on the edge of her desk. It was time for the nightly staring contest among herself, her books, and her fifth cup of coffee ( Read more... )