Week 35 has not been my most favorite week of the year. All week I’ve been struggling against a cold and something that borders on a very mild flu. On top of that, I spend half of my working week in meetings. Or rather, several parts of the same meeting. Four o’clock this afternoon, I’ve [...]
Author Archives: Evil Nickname
Story Time
September 2, 2010 – 19:18
Once upon a time there was a boy who took his bike when the working day day was over and arrived home fifteen minutes later. Then out of the great nothing, all of a sudden Change came and upset the natural order of things in the universe. After the ravages were somewhat cleared, some of [...]
Six Months on the Job
September 1, 2010 – 23:57
I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday. Only it didn’t happen yesterday, but on December 21, 2009. After a week of vacation I got back to work, and before lunch I was back home again and soon to be out of job. Sure, that sucked, but as I was already looking [...]
First Lines: Peter Pan
August 30, 2010 – 23:46
One night, Peter Pan came and took Wendy and her brothers to the Neverland. There they had many grand adventures with Lost Boys, mermaids, redskins, a ticking crocodile and pirates, before safely returning home. If you know the Disney movie, you know what happens. What you should of course realize is that J.M. Barrie’s Peter [...]
First Lines: Spirits of the Dead
August 17, 2010 – 23:07
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Poems would have been significantly improved if its editors, in their inestimable wisdom, had put the story Mellonta Tauta at the very front of this collection of poems and tales of Edgar Allen Poe. You see, this story starts with an all too perfect description of this volume’s contents: [...]
