Category Archives: Sample Essays

Some examples of essays written for APA zines. Yes, I’m that old.

Assault & Battery In the Bread Aisle

This Just Happened Sunday 1 Dec 2013 at about 13:13 at Offutt AFB Commissary — So I’m standing in the bread aisle complaining to my wife about how my cell phone’s battery has begun draining too quickly as of last … Continue reading

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Be No Dupe

My wife occasionally gets exasperated and asks me how I can get so much entertainment from, say, ANCIENT ALIENS, and I try to explain how I watch such things on a meta-level. Also, I get a big kick out of … Continue reading

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Get Up And Fight Back

Someone walks up to you and your loved ones and begins swinging an axe and just chopping the bloody hell out of your loved ones. Bet you stand there “loving” them and “forgiving” them and saying, “Oh, there’s still hope” … Continue reading

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News-Like Shows

As Paddy Chayevsky warned in the script for the astonishingly-prescient film NETWORK, in 1976 mind you, the first hard shove toward the complete downfall of media journalism came when news organizations were placed under the entertainment banner and became responsible … Continue reading

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Clips from FB from my birthday last year until now

Failure is art, and art is failure. We fall short, inevitably, even if awarded. It’s nice to have community accolades, and it does have an affect on how one’s art is perceived and thus its community worth, or value, but … Continue reading

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Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink

Rat Stew A Column for Tom Sadler’s APA zine The Reluctant Famulus TRF #96 by Gene Stewart Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink Shit floats and imagines itself superior. That’s what came to me as I thought about writing. As I thought about … Continue reading

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We Don’t Feel So Good These Days

Mononucleosis is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which is a retrovirus – goes dormant and can surface to flatten us. Its origins remain mysterious. Lyme disease, another retro virus, almost certainly came from biological weapons experiments on Plum Island. It … Continue reading

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Drug Abuse Is What Laws Impose On Society; The War on Drugs is a Protection Racket

If you think making drugs illegal helps society then certainly alcohol, arguably the most addictive and demonstrably the most harmful, should be illegal. Ah, but the Volstead Act showed us that criminalizing and attempts to control lead only to crime, … Continue reading

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A Culling

Today’s thoughts culled from letters of comment, my fanzine column, my journal, and Facebook. /// I disagree with the assertion that electronic self-publishing is saturating the marketplace; no. It’s saturating the ebook zone, yes. Which is a hefty chunk of … Continue reading

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The Intelligence of Books

The American Revolution was founded on BOOKS. The root of the word “intelligence” is interesting. In = not. Tele = communicate. Gens = people. So Intelligence means Not For The People. Hidden. Occult. That’s how it was played back then. … Continue reading

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