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Designing Armageddon – The Story Behind the Cover of Paradise Earth: Day Zero

December 28th, 2012 | A common feature in Jehovah’s Witness literature is Armageddon paintings, depicting this judgment day. Like the doom paintings of old the Witness paintings serve to warn adherents of the grim consequences of not following the...
by Anthony Mathenia
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Irving Podolsky: Thoughts from the Heart
How Old Do We Have To Be To Be OLDER? Malala Yousafzai

How Old Do We Have To Be To Be OLDER?

November 21st, 2012 | Two exceptional women. Two stories of courage, perseverance, and personal strength. What do they have to do with us writers? Read and find out.
by Irving Podolsky
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World
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Facing the Aliens

October 11th, 2011 | Writing a post speculating about a possible meteorite I found got me to thinking. We as humans, and particularly Americans, have an ongoing love affair with outer space. We search for alien life, we speculate endlessly about al...
by Jonathan Dalar
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Culture & Arts
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Worth a Look: Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

August 17th, 2011 | Let’s try a little something different. As a writer, it’s not just reading other writers’ work or reading about writing that tends to inspire me to write better. We have many senses, and they all play a role i...
by Eugene Teplitsky
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Offbeat
Anger

Rage Against a Machine

July 17th, 2011 | When I was a teen, I used to — LITERALLY — beat the stuffing out of my debonair pink flamingo in a black top hat whenever I was feeling pissy.  Those hormones raging like Cali wildfires stoked by Santa Ana winds, l...
by Lisa Gus
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Offbeat
Prostitute

A Buffet Of Debauchery

July 13th, 2011 | No, seriously? Can I get a side of crab sticks, small Coke, and this here blond, that one, with a mole over her upper lip? Oh, all right, I am sort of kidding – but only because I am nowhere near the Berlin’s “...
by Lisa Gus
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Technology
Muppet Guys

A Sound Solution to an Age Old Problem

July 11th, 2011 | There’s a funny thing about old people – eventually we all turn into them. As our tolerance for loud music gets lower and our pants higher, we start judging those less gnarled and crusty than ourselves with a sort o...
by Eugene Teplitsky
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Offbeat
Nuclear Explosion

Dima Crosses The Streams

July 8th, 2011 | In “Dima Sets off the Gaidar”, I described a harrowing tale of a boy, his Arkady Gaidar-themed sled, and the jealousy and avarice it inspired in his friends. But not all stories about Dima have to do with sleds. Th...
by Eugene Teplitsky
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Family
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Dima Sets Off The Gaidar

July 6th, 2011 | (… that’s Arkady Gaidar, for the non-literature-minded) Meet Dima. Preserved like an acutely hypochondriac mosquito in a block of amber, he sits here in my memories in his perpetually sniveling 8-year-old self. Some...
by Eugene Teplitsky
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