Let's rename the kids!
They were sitting in the Subaru on the side of the road and it was snowing. If you looked at the parents you could see that both of them had teeth that were crooked, and all of their children did as well.
What will we do?
I’ll go in and straighten them...
The deconstruction of "race" as a discourse in Dr. ... oh, Who are we kidding?
It is possible to do the academic study of popular culture well. It just isn’t common. My hypothesis is that all too often the academic study of popular culture is undertaken by scholars who really just want to write fan fiction.
In 2001 a whole bunch of...
Rules of Evidence
I once knew a pro-domme who had all her prospective clients call an untraceable number that got forwarded to her business cell so that she could talk with them before agreeing to meet in person.
“I can tell,” she said, “instantly, from their opening words and the...
They go to the Forest
The trouble is, see, we keep losing all our poets to those there woods. The nymphs and the dryads, they can’t get enough of them. They tease them and torment them and sing to them, until it makes them mad with want, and well, that’s when they go. Sort of like sirens,...
"Fire," A Story
An old man writes a terrible book about his wife.
He publishes it himself and takes it to the bookstore.
The bookstore clerk says it’s a terrible book and insults the old man’s wife.
The old man’s wife gets sick and dies.
The old man burns...
Recursive Algorithm
It took 10 years and 1.5 billion Euros to set up a fully simulated brain in a next generation supercomputer in Brussels – and that wouldn’t have been possible without over a billion in research funding from the American government and countless research grants from...
The pseudo-modern death wish
In the magnificent opening essay of his 1912 masterpiece “The Tragic Sense of Life,” Miguel de Unamuno follows Spinoza to hold that the essence of any being that can be reasonably called such is the will to continue being ourselves. For all that we change – from moment...
Omnibucket Contributor Darren Callahan is making a female-driven horror movie! Wanna help?
Desperate Dolls is a feature-length, female-driven horror movie written and directed by Darren Callahan (BBC, SyFy, Under the Table, Children of the Invisible Man). Set in Hollywood in 1968, it is the story of three young actresses with hand-picked...
Do You Really Want To Know What Happened To My Eye?
You do? Well, you asked.
Once upon a time there was a handsome man. He too knew the art of chainsaw juggling, but he could only do it when the chainsaws were unplugged–otherwise, he became entangled in the extension cords. Still, I was impressed; it was so...
The Visit
Whatever wants to be written will be written. Whatever calls out to me will be a song. Whatever crosses the yard at night will be photographed and charted. Whatever crosses the sky will be remembered. Whoever speaks will be heard. Whoever listens will be repaid. Whatever...
