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New Orcateers Song

This is a simple, messy sounding song, with samples about the lottery:
Lottery

Letter Of Reprimand

Dear Mr. Tremblay, We are issuing you this letter of reprimand to detail the history of these events and our actions, as they exist in the record submitted to the court.
On march 14th, at a firm event at Dave & Busters you were said by several employees to have displayed signs of intoxication including slurred [...]

Currently Developing What Now?

Our startup is currently developing an innovative web platform to “centralize the web” by means of incorporating a variety of advanced web features along with our signature web services to meet a significant need in the market for efficiency and productivity. It will be completely web based and will have a focus on the consumer/user [...]

Different Strokes

The water rolled down with our reflections in it. It was foamy for a second and then nothing, just dark out. I can remember the shape of him. He had a soft jaw and eyes that were darting off, and he held a gun that seemed to me like it was on video. It was [...]

Book Gun

This piece on time perception briefly touches on how in a high-adrenaline situation, people get a kind of heightened focus and clarity:
In a critical situation, a walnut-size area of the brain called the amygdala kicks into high gear, … forcing everything to attend to the situation at hand. When the amygdala gets involved, memories are [...]

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, [...]

Idolatry…Madness…Milk

This comes from a court document obtained by The Smoking Gun:
Scene Description:
The scene is a residential street lined with single family residences. The decedent’s vehicle is parked along the south curb line to the front of the listed address. The driver’s side window is smashed. The decedent is lying on her right side in the [...]