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Bad Fancies: February 2013
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Monday, February 4, 2013. Supposed to Snow Tonight. The street wants the snow. So bad, now that it's midnight. And freezing fucking cold. And the guy on TV keeps saying. 70% chance of precipitation. Forever, it feels like. For the first pinprick. To drift past the streetlight. Searching in slow motion. For the asphalt. You, me,. The street, the window,. The neighbor's Hyundai,. The open trash barrels,. A stoop and a stray cat,. No sound but a siren. From a few streets over. No hurry, dark Eastern clouds,.
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Bad Fancies: The Extension, Part 2
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Thursday, December 8, 2011. The Extension, Part 2. That would probably take about an hour. After that, I would spend another hour filing reports: where was the data surge? Where was there extra noise in the data? Which transistor had come loose? Was everything else up to code? And then it would assign me a general clean-up. another half hour. Then I could go home. Pretty routine. I've had much worse assignments. I stopped to talk to Bill again on the way out. 8220;How's everything on your end, Bill?
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Bad Fancies: March 2013
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013. A bad dream and hypoglycemic thoughts. I'm on a trip, for some reason, thinking in terms of maps, like I'm looking at a GPS. Mom can't figure out quite how to use the GPS, so I have to help her figure out which way is North, so we can get to wherever it is we're going. She says, "In Part 4, you will burst into flames, and you will go to hell.". One of the other members of the organization overheads and, shocked, tries to chide her, but the woman seems to be in a trance, simply ta...
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Jesse Miksic: DOOMed
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Arts & Culture. Digital Disquiet: How 8- and 16-bit Games Taught Me the Power of Dread. June 1, 2012. It’s cold and wet the worst kind of early winter morning. Or is it New Jersey? In fact, it was a depressing train ride up the Northeast Corridor line of New Jersey Transit. Depressing, but somehow faintly nostalgic, reminding me of the empty, disquieting landscape of. Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. And the Indifferent Universe. Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. In blocky NES-era sprite graphics, the designe...
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Bad Fancies: Supposed to Snow Tonight
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Monday, February 4, 2013. Supposed to Snow Tonight. The street wants the snow. So bad, now that it's midnight. And freezing fucking cold. And the guy on TV keeps saying. 70% chance of precipitation. Forever, it feels like. For the first pinprick. To drift past the streetlight. Searching in slow motion. For the asphalt. You, me,. The street, the window,. The neighbor's Hyundai,. The open trash barrels,. A stoop and a stray cat,. No sound but a siren. From a few streets over. No hurry, dark Eastern clouds,.
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Bad Fancies: November 2011
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Bad Fancies: a more extensive self-assessment. First, a question-meditation-disclosure. an over-extended about-the-author crowd-sourced attempt to talk myself through living an authentic, impractical life. It reads a little too much like a LiveJournal entry for my taste. Oh well. It is what it is. Then I tried that writing thing for a while, and I started getting my rejection letters, and at some point, my interest foundered. Did I just give up? My holding place for such hal...
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Bad Fancies: A bad dream and hypoglycemic thoughts
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013. A bad dream and hypoglycemic thoughts. I'm on a trip, for some reason, thinking in terms of maps, like I'm looking at a GPS. Mom can't figure out quite how to use the GPS, so I have to help her figure out which way is North, so we can get to wherever it is we're going. She says, "In Part 4, you will burst into flames, and you will go to hell.". One of the other members of the organization overheads and, shocked, tries to chide her, but the woman seems to be in a trance, simply ta...
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Bad Fancies: The Extension, Part 6
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Friday, December 30, 2011. The Extension, Part 6. I glanced toward Marge. “Hey, hun, Janie's meeting somebody today. a Mr. Michaelson? Do you know who that is? Marge spent another ten seconds buried in her literature before she looked up to answer. “Yeah, that's her PET Mentor. They've just been assigned, and they're having their first meeting tonight.”. 8220;Wow, already? They didn't do that with us until we were 11! And took notes on my Tablet while I listened. 8220;Getting started already? I'm more se...
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Bad Fancies: The Extension, Part 3
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Monday, December 12, 2011. The Extension, Part 3. 8220;Sure thing. I'll see you next time we cross paths, Bannon! 8220;Good luck on your dates, Bill! I took the 5. Street HighWalk to the 28. Avenue UnderWalk, cruised under two blocks of local foot traffic, and came up about a hundred yards from my unit, which was a modified 21. As I watched her touch the Tablet, lightly, with intricate caresses, I felt a soft hand on my shoulder. I turned around to find Marge looking at me with a warm, sleepy smile.
