by James Heflin | Nov 6, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
How strange to find life imitating Philip K. Dick in such a precise fashion. The town of Argleton, England exists only on Google Maps, and, just exactly like PKD's protagonist in the story "The Commuter" going to find a non-place, someone goes to find...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Nov 6, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Write a short story, Lucien’s sixth grade assignment goes. Elements needed to make a story work, Lucien is told include narrative, character development, place, and conflict. Lucien can set the scene. He can make up a story, as in this happens then this then...
by Northampton Redoubt | Nov 6, 2009 | Northampton Redoubt
As I wrote a few entries ago, about 5,000 voters determined the direction this city of 28,000+ should take for the next two years. A little more than fifty percent of Northampton's voters turned out for the Tuesday election, about the same number as the spring...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 6, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Maybe not many of you are old enough or even if you are, are likely remember the above line from "Friends" by the once-popular, semi-talented rap act Whodini (their biggest hit besides, perhaps, "Hounted House of Rock," which is still revived this...