All Posts Tagged With: "settings Tuesdays"

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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 82

JR Blackwell is an inspiration again. Thanks, JR.
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True sorrow comes from knowing joy, and vice versa. There is a prison that has more mental punishment than physical. You are brought to the prison and kept in a cell. After a certain number of weeks, you get a “day off.” During the day off, you [...]

29Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 3 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 77

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The dark underbelly of the Girl Scouts of America have been hinted at, and people don’t seem to be too concerned. But what people don’t know is that the secret society that runs the cookie operation, chooses the new badges, and chooses the troop leaders is the Alpha 10, a scout who wins in [...]

15Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 70

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The world of My Pretty Pony is one beset by war and strife. Their society started innocently enough, with the branding of the young ones with cute icons, but later those brands became akin to gang signs, and the ponies would group together based on nothing more than signs. Astronomical signs vs water signs [...]

9Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 63 - Fool Week

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Girdy Twinkleflow is the elected head of the NYC Fool’s Guild. Patty Finhowl is the head of the blue collar fools, while Larry NoLastName is head of the white collar fools. The NYC Fool’s Guild has been putting fools in businesses from Public Works to McDonald’s to Trump Tower for the past 5 years, [...]

24Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 57

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I like abandoned buildings, urban decay, as much as the next person. The potential for fiction, what happened here long ago, etc, is excellent. However, what about shiny new buildings full of people? Why do we never assume they have personality, or hauntings, or quirks? (Indian burial ground doesn’t count, either. I want something [...]

17Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 50

50 days. Wow. And I nearly missed this one, too.
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Math is foreign to me. I think it’s this way for many liberal arts majors. But when it’s used well in ficttion, it amazes me. It’s hard to weave in math and a good plotline and make it interesting to a lot of people.
My accountant [...]

10Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 43

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Palace Steps Apartments is a bizarre place - no one ever leaves. The huge, spanning apartments house up to three generations of families. children may leave for school, but they always come back. Young people intermarry, with the new family moving in with the woman’s parents. After several generations, the building is starting to [...]

3Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 36 - Adult Content Warning!

hah! I’m caught up.
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Robin Williams once quoted that he wished porno had better dialogue - they needed better writers. “Cmon you stallion you know you’re the best… sigh…” should become “Martha, I will part you like the Red Sea!”
In that mindset I don’t know why we can’t merge strong writing with hardcore sex. Because [...]

27May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 7 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 29 - Pie Week!

Pie week continues.
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Everybody hated rainy days in the city. The pie filling would fall in gloppy chunks, clogging gutters and ruining the outfit of anyone left out in it. You had to make sure all pets and livestock were inside during a storm, else they’d eat cherry filling and make themselves sick. And don’t [...]

20May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 22

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The reason why honey is so dangerous to infants is fear of botulism, lots of little spores and stuff that digestive tracts can’t handle. What I like is the idea of a seriously complex political system that controls the botulism spores. And the good systems can keep the botulism down, but the corrupt systems, [...]

13May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued