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Sunday
The Decline and Fall of Facts

This morning I got an email from audible.com advertising their monthly sale. As I do each month, I read thru the list of non-fiction books for sale.
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1 week
How Good Fiction is Truer than Non-Fiction

Drunkposting courtesy of Evan Williams' Honey Kentucky Bourbon.
The vastness of the subject could only be compressed into a lie.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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2 weeks
Paul Asaran gave me (almost) an entire issue of his review!

Late Thursday evening I checked my fimfic notifications. There were... a lot of them. And the first 9 were comments on my stories, all by PaulAsaran, all saying "You can has review!" He spent 9 of his 10 story slots this week on me.
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11 weeks
Experimental Fiction, part 1: A list of experimental pony stories

Regidar recently posted a request for links to experimental fics. I decided to just add a bookshelf, Experimental, and list my favorite and my own experimental stories there. (My stories will probably appear first, because I added
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12 weeks
"Our minds must be too highly trained."

That most-peculiar book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, describes in Fit the Fourth how representatives of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries, and other professional thinking persons confronted Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the universe, when it threatened to find the answer to
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Aug

29th

2020

Little girl saved from unicorn · 4:04am Aug 29th, 2020

On August 24th, an inflatable unicorn snatched a little girl away off the coast of Greece and carried her out to sea. The dastardly creature's plan was foiled when a ferry picked her up a half mile out.

(Rumors of my involvement with her abduction are greatly exaggerated.)

When they picked her up, she was riding that unicorn...