scrymarch's Diaries
Print Story Wonderful Spime
Diary
By Scrymarch (Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 11:15:23 AM EST) WFC, WFC 9, Clayderman (all tags)
Bling post-mortem. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Clayderman vertigo.

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Print Story Books on the Reformation / Counter-Reformation
Diary
By Scrymarch (Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 07:34:22 PM EST) (all tags)
Any suggestions? Just reading for interest so no need to be systematic.

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Print Story Cat King
News
By Scrymarch (Sat Jan 12, 2008 at 02:57:28 AM EST) (all tags)
This week included an anniversary of Elvis "The King" Presley's birth, and I got to discover that Elvis's Chinese nickname is literally "The Cat King", 猫王.

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Print Story Jetsam
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By Scrymarch (Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 01:43:33 PM EST) WFC, WFC7, non-existence (all tags)
A WFC ex post ante mortem. I had part of an entry, but couldn't finish. Partially ran out of time. Partially ran out of steam. Marginalia below.

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Print Story Late MFC XII Cover
Diary
By Scrymarch (Sat Sep 29, 2007 at 07:36:17 AM EST) (all tags)
I only just listened to the songs. They're good, hey. Then I thought they should have a cover so the other songs in iTunes won't make fun of them and beat them up.

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Print Story WFC6; Notes for the Self-Pitying Deconstruction Worker
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By Scrymarch (Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 10:02:46 PM EST) WFC, WFC6 (all tags)
This seemed to go over ok. It's a shame I typed the third line wrong though.

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Print Story Pope Suburban III
Religion & Philosophy
By Scrymarch (Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 10:50:34 PM EST) (all tags)
Crwm's recent musing in the hole on popes got me thinking about papal names again. Sometimes I speculate on what papal name I would take, in the essentially impossible event of becoming Pope. Urban was a pretty cool papal name. Abstract and attractive without the credibility-stretching pretentiousness of Pius or Innocent.

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Print Story Confusion
Diary
By Scrymarch (Fri Feb 02, 2007 at 07:26:10 PM EST) WFC, WFC5 (all tags)
WFC5 recap, Fusion.

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Print Story Books 2006
Diary
By Scrymarch (Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 11:28:05 PM EST) (all tags)
Just a handful really; maybe that's why I keep track.

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Print Story Christmas In Disneyland
Christmas
By Scrymarch (Fri Dec 22, 2006 at 11:52:55 PM EST) Disneyland (all tags)
So we moved to Disneyland recently. So far the Magic Kingdom is treating us pretty well.

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Print Story No Butterfly; WFC4 Recap
Sex
By Scrymarch (Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 07:00:14 PM EST) WFC4 (all tags)
"Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams to discover he had transformed in his bed into the body of a giant insect."

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Print Story Single - WFC3 Post-mortem
Diary
By Scrymarch (Fri Sep 01, 2006 at 12:56:31 AM EST) WFC, WFC3 (all tags)
Idleness, Death, Resurrection, Post-Mortem, the order of which must have given the coroner quite a turn. Mostly about stories I didn't write.

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