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An admittedly profoundly-average human being notwithstanding, existence solicits Voice, and - scriptum ergo sum - I effuse, therefore I am. The dissemination of my stray, disparate, and random neural firings is reason sufficient for my perseity.

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Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Storms: 1 of 7

SETTING: Teahupoo, Tahiti. A.K.A. "The Heaviest Wave in the World." 36 hours prior to the forecast arrival of Tropical Storm Alizee. CHARACTERS: NATE: an American expat from Maui. MAOHINUI: Teahupoo native. Maohinui knows Nate from their days surfing every major break in the Hawaiian Islands. (Dawn patrol. Camera steadily zo...
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Pets: 1 of 4

LOCATION: Nate's Pet Store. Ogden, Utah. Pick a Wednesday, any Wednesday. CHARACTERS NATE: Eponymous store proprietor. Brigham Young University alumnus, B.A. in Marketing, Minor in Mandarin Chinese. 3.1 GPA. Bench press 205, body weight 224. Prone to wearing T-shirts one size too small. Irrationally exuberant as to his own m...
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Detective stories: 1 of 4

SETTING: Homicide scene. Pre-dawn. Thursday. Pick a metropolis, any metropolis. CHARACTERS NATE: a grizzled, fairly jaded, mostly even-keeled homicide detective. The detective wears gray slacks and a powder blue tie with a jaundiced shirt that was once white. CLAIRE: a rather frenetic forensic anthropologist. In something of...
Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Are future wars going to be fought over water or will leaders be able to resolve conflicts as they have many times in the past?: 8 of 28

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem may need amending; even his "water, water everywhere" observation may not hold up in the foreseeable future. Dubbed "new oil" by a few gloomy prognosticators, water has recently been generating a lot of press, much of it dealing with its absence - and what its absence may mean to global securit...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Syriana: 2 of 7

Per the admission of a preponderance of professional film critics, the plot of Syriana is nearly impossible to follow. That intentional contrivance is the film's salient strength. Ellipses prevail as the principal cinematic technique/rhetorical device/philosophical couching in writer/director Stephen Gaghan's frenetic,...
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Power: 2 of 7

LOCATION: Creation Inc. & Subsidiaries, Pre-Mortal Division. May 5, 1856. CHARACTERS Nate: Chief engineer for Creation's Austrian affiliate. Nate has put together a team to assemble one Sigismund Schlomo Freud. ID: Personified as an impish rascal. Id is hyperactive, aggressive, and egocentric. Think Iago from Othello. SU...
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: A rainy day: 3 of 9

LOCATION: A boardroom in a vapid Manhattan skyscraper. April. Pick a Wednesday, any Wednesday. CHARACTERS NATE: Your run-of-the-mill middle-aged corporate slug. Uppity and short-tempered, Nate has been running strategic analysis for a major consulting firm for seven years. Nate originally hails from Pukalani, Maui. ACTION: I...
Creative Writing > Drama Drama: Survival: 2 of 6

LOCATION: Wasatch Mountain Range CHARACTERS NATE: A Utah Valley University sophomore. CEREBELLUM: Personified as a lumbering, fairly primeval fellow. Husky and hirsute, Cerebellum dons a construction hat. AMYGDALA: Represented as a neurotic, yet sensitive fussbudget. Think Woody Allen as Bill Gate's HR director. ORBITOFRONTA...
Sciences > Astronomy UFO contact: Are we ready?: 16 of 43

I am. I notice we're not being asked to differentiate between UFO contact and alien contact, so as long as ALF stays up in the ship, I say bring em on. No, but seriously, while ruminating on potential impetus for the Visitors to grace our fair planet with their presence, not a real whole lotta dialectic answers emerge. I mea...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Children's Activities (Other) How after-school jobs build self-esteem for teens: 9 of 23

Literally on-the-job training for life, after school and part-time employment provide excellent opportunities for teens to develop self-esteem, increase their emotional quotients, and acquire real-world skills that will help them in their futures. While the social and psychological benefits attendant to the environments faci...