The Walton Firm Memos

Oh man, someone just reminded me that Halloween is coming up, and I have a couple of true-life horror story’s to write about. Today I’m going to write about something I came across in a history of homeopathy penned by William Harvey King and published in 1905 (yeah, I’m real fucking busy all the time):
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Five to ten years from now is a magical time. It is when seemingly all ambitious ideas will begin to show results. I think about this from the idea-haver’s perspective. The idea-haver waits nervously in the waiting room of a Venture Capitalists office, or alternately sits up late agonizing over a press-release or grant proposal [...]

Here is a sampling of usenet groups that currently have only one member, in case anyone was looking for a new hobby. Im not going to riff and ramble about all this, just wanted to enjoy the ol’ slice of life:
All About Peafowl
A group for all those people out there wanting to know more [...]

I just finished reading Infinite Jest for the second time. The first time I read it it was sort of just generally impressive, and made me a lot more interested in reading books in general, but was really far too much material for me to really absorb. The second time through was a lot cooler, [...]

A side note from an article on Russian Roulette:
A case report detailing the accidental death of [a] 23-year-old man, who died of a self-inflicted stab wound with a dagger into a wooden board taped to his chest, indicated that the decedent bore a tattoo of a skull encircled by a ribbon proclaiming “Born to Lose.”
Yeah, [...]

My understanding is that sometime in the 1970’s, some white guys who were essentially science fiction authors had to face some long, hard truths about how incredibly bad they were at developing plots and characters. In a sort of brilliant “fuck it moment”, they just started writing all the science-y stuff down, without letting literary [...]

So this is a picture of Grape Methamphetamine, which does exist. Some alarmist local-tv-news-types like to hype the flavored-meth thing as, like, a phenomenon of children-targeting, which I find to be bullshit.  Grape flavoring, or Methyl Anthranilate, is known to any serious candy-eater as the most sickly of all flavors (it is, symbolicaly, also used [...]

We are often times the last wave of people to occupy these great houses. A particular house I mean was probably a family home for several generations, was probably lived in and cared for by several generations of owners, but as the city changed around it, it’s role was altered. Many family homes find a [...]