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I'm a sort of inner city gargoyle by nature. I knocked around for years being thematically broke, then finally got a stable job and began painting and playing music.

Finally got a chance to write, took a redundancy package, and have been writing solidly for

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Religion & Spirituality > Astrology & Prophecy Assessing the possibility of predicting the future: 13 of 27
TOUGH CALL FOR THE FUTURE The only person to get a reputation for predicting the future so far is Nostradamus. He's now an industry in his own right, supporting any number of publishers. As perhaps the most widely interpreted person on the subject, he's become an authority by default. It'd be difficult to describe other futu... More..
Home & Garden > Annuals Growing geraniums: 3 of 6
GROWING GERANIUMS Geraniums are usually the toughest, most enduring, plants in any garden. In one place I was living, we had a geranium actually growing through the concrete around the house. A bit of local knowledge research discovered that it was a remnant of a previous cottage garden from the 1920s. It had outlasted the e... More..
Business > General Management Management-employee perceptions: A more individualized approach: 3 of 6
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES: SCAM, SKIM, OR SCUM? The most obvious cultural change in business management in the last 30 years is the advent of the management science motif. It's also the basis for the general loathing of management techniques and the utter contempt in which management is held by so much of the community... More..
Sciences > Chemistry An overview of carbon in nature: 2 of 4
CARBON- THE ULTIMATE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT Carbon is life. It is also the most undervalued product on Earth. The biology of this planet generally doesn't work at all without it. The carbon cycle is one of the best known biological and environmental processes. We currently have a technology where priceless oil and coal are oxid... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Solitude: 2 of 4
SOLITUDE Ah that terrible penalty. To be deprived of the eternal brilliance of modern society. To just get an occasional secret glimpse of the deep, spiritually uplifting world of the mindless, macabre, mundane and moribund. The solitary person slinks apologetically into some fount of culture like a supermarket, pitifully wi... More..
Health & Fitness > Diet (Other) Vegan diets: Health and environmental benefits: 2 of 4
Vegan living is actually a designer lifestyle. Vegans are the best informed dietary consumers on Earth. They also have arguably the widest nutritional range of any form of diet as their palette. Vegans can literally design their diets to suit their needs. The history of Vegan diets is probably the best explanation of how Veg... More..
Arts & Humanities > Visual Arts (Other) Peanuts, by Charles Schultz: 1 of 2
CHARLES SCHULZ- HUMANITY IS SOME KIDS YOU KNOW If anyone ever made the human race look human, it'd have to be Charles Schulz. Rather than indulge the usual verbiage and psychoanalysis of Peanuts, which is at spam levels, I'd like to be a bit more penetrant, and hopefully much less verbose. Maybe even in context with the worl... More..
Sciences > Molecular Biology Genetic engineering and prognostic mutagenics.: 1 of 1
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE NEED FOR A NEW SCIENCE: PROGNOSTIC MUTAGENICS. Genetic engineering is the biggest scientific breakthrough since the invention of fire. The living machine of DNA is finally something we can use. Production capacity which dwarfs the industrial revolution is only a few million hours of stubborn resea... More..
Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) Tips for keeping a gardening calendar: 1 of 1
There are any number of excellent reasons for keeping a traditional gardening calendar. The calendar is probably the best way of organizing tasks and setting reminders from the vast amounts of esoteric knowledge the gardener accumulates. However, that's an awful lot of information, and a series of well-informed scrawls and n... More..
Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Spiritual: 1 of 1
SPIRITUAL EXPLOITATION The concept of satire hardly begins to describe the modern take on "spirituality". Having firmly repressed my scatological leanings in seven languages with a crowbar, I will now attempt to describe the current version of this poor word as it now staggers from one definition of itself to another. It's s... More..