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Obama’s Train Ride into Washington is the Primary Thing We Should Be Meditating On Throughout This Final Sunday of the Bush Administration

Written by Josh in January 18th, 2009  
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Obama's train ride is guilty of being an almost cheesy symbol for to us to attach him with Lincoln, an action whose motives are clearly visible.  This symbol is see through. But the best symbols should be see through--that's the point. Many of the trinkets people wear on chains around

Disney World as a Right of Passage: Raising Better Children While Hating Everyone in Line Around You

Written by Joshua Bradley Minton in January 2nd, 2009  
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Legend has it that Charles Bukowski hated Mickey Mouse more than anything and thought it was blasphemy of the highest order that somehow a soulless celluloid corporate intruder started passing itself off as the source and effect of creativity and dreams. Maybe he thought children finally bought off on the

Understanding Abney’s Effect in the Creation of Fiction

Written by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 26th, 2008  
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The [psychological and biological] phenomenon whereby when a large area is suddenly illuminated, the light seems to appear first in the center of the patch (rather than appearing all at once) and then spreads outwards towards the edges. When the light is extinguished, the edges disappear first and the center

Help, Facebook Is Killing My Blog! How I Survived Social Networking and Make It Work for Me

Written by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 14th, 2008  
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But I can't claim artistic integrity and career fretting as the primary reasons for my lack of publishment on this site famous only to myself and a few brilliant others. A new mistress has moved into my writing boudoir--Facebook. I currently have 187 friends which are actually people I know and spending less than 30 minutes a day, I can keep up with all of them.

“Masturbating in the Back Seat While Nobody’s Watching”: Short Fiction by Joshua Minton

Written by Josh in November 1st, 2008  
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If someone put a gun to my head and made me say out loud the worst three things about me as a person, they would be: I am a serial masturbator. I smoke too many cigars. I play too much Guitar Hero which is a bitch because I have carpal tunnel from jerking
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