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by Jesse
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| Hey, Ray... And all you other folks out there, floating silently in the ether like wisps of breath in a steam room... Gu... |
| March 06, 2019 |
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by Ray
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| So...here we are again.
I don't know, gang. I just don't know.
When I was younger, I wondered how people just stopped... |
| February 07, 2019 |
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by Jesse
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| I haven't seen you guys in awhile. Technically, I haven't seen you ever. But I still check in, waiting for the day this ... |
| January 13, 2019 |
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by Ray
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| I'm going to tell you something that, four or five years ago, I wouldn't have imagined thinking, much less admitting: wr... |
| November 18, 2016 |
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by Ray
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| In case you weren't around last month, you...actually didn't miss anything at all. I managed to sneak in a boring-ass ex... |
| November 01, 2015 |
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by Ray
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| October has been straight-up bare around here. I have reasons for this. About 6 or 7 weeks ago, I jacked my back up pret... |
| October 28, 2015 |
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by Ray
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| I am sitting in a hospital room, waiting for my son to be born, and updating The Strangelands on my phone. Good old tech... |
| June 18, 2015 |
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by Ray
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| There's a chime that sounds in my new neighborhood. I don't know where it comes from...maybe the house across the street... |
| May 09, 2015 |
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by Ray
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So I've told you guys that I'm going to be ... |
| March 05, 2015 |
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by Ray
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| I planned on writing tonight. Then I fell asleep, because I'm old, and one of my new hobbies is being tired.
Fortunat... |
| February 07, 2015 |
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by Trey
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| Couldn't edit stories before. Fixed it.... |
| December 29, 2014 |
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by Ray
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| In case you haven't heard,
What Happened? by Trey
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| You might have noticed that TheStrangelands disappeared for about a week.
Even worse, you might notice that we are miss... |
| November 11, 2014 |
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by Ray
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| I'll be honest, kids--my head isn't really in the game, at this point. And when your head isn't in the game for Strangel... |
| April 02, 2011 |
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by Ray
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| So you might have noticed that this issue is a little late. And maybe how you noticed that last month, even though it wa... |
| March 04, 2011 |
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by Trey
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| Happy Birthday Strangelands, you crusty old bag!
I’ve broke out the rot gut whiskey and cheap cigarettes to celebrate s... |
| March 01, 2011 |
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by Ray
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| Well kids, it's that time of year again: our birthday. Seven years ago this month, a couple of drunk kids decided to sta... |
| February 02, 2011 |
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by Ray
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| Happy New Year, everybody.
I hope it's going good for you so far. Mine isn't too bad at all. I managed to walk that ... |
| January 01, 2011 |
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by Ray
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| What's up, kids? Did you miss me? Yeah, I know you did, don't act all tough, like you got along just fine without me.
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| December 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I would like to start out by saying thank you to Charlie Mine. I appreciate the fact that you've been posting in my abse... |
| November 17, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| You guys know how every year around this time, I start talking about how I'm working on a book? Usually, it's right abou... |
| November 06, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So it's November. In America, this traditionally means things like turkey and togetherness for Thanksgiving. This usuall... |
| November 02, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Hey kids, welcome to October. This is one of the few months that I enjoy, mostly because it means I get to go home and v... |
| October 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| We gotta be quick about this month's intro, kids--I'm supposed to be on my way to work right now, and I haven't even put... |
| September 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Hi there.
How's it going?
Pretty good, I hope.
So, I don't know if you noticed or not, but it's August. August... |
| August 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I wrote a new zombie story. I haven't quite decided if I'm going to post it here or not. Right now, it's available as a ... |
| July 20, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Hey kids, hope you're enjoying your holiday (if you're Americans--if you're not Americans, you're probably used to being... |
| July 04, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Hey everyone, it's July. Don't believe me, look at your phone or your calendar, or maybe even your watch, if it's fancy ... |
| July 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| At one point, I mentioned a quickly thrown together book I was working on called Raw Dog. It seems like it was just the ... |
| June 21, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I have so many pens in my pen holder right now, and I don't know where they came from. I know that's not too exciting, b... |
| June 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| It is way too early in the day to be this brain-bogged. Which is probably why I was surprised by the fact that it's a ne... |
| May 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| If you've been a regular reader for the past few years, you might remember me bitching about my back for what was probab... |
| April 27, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So I'm naked right now. That's not really the point of anything, but I find it very distracting, and I knew that I would... |
| April 02, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So you probably already know it, but here in America, we switched over to daylight savings time last night. As much as I... |
| March 14, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I'll tell you what, February got away from me. I kept hearing about things that were going to happen in March, deadlines... |
| March 02, 2010 |
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by Trey
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Taken from the N-Train, New York City, Feb 21, 2010
Andrew Joseph Stack: LUZR 4evah by Ray
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| Today was a weird day. Even before the airplane crashed into a building in my neighborhood, I mean. After that happened... |
| February 19, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Man, I wish there was one more place on the internet that I could see var... |
| February 16, 2010 |
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by Ray
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Hey gang, I just got a notification from Lulu (the place where... |
| February 12, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| It's February, which means only one thing: It's our birthday! I suppose it could mean more than one thing, like it's tim... |
| February 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed that I was late getting this issue up. There are very good reasons for this, including, but not lim... |
| January 03, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Hey everybody, how's it going? Good, I hope. Me, I'm pretty excited--I just finished final-proofing my latest book, "Deg... |
| December 25, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I'm a little surprised that it's December. More than a little surprised, actually. I wanted to have my book not only pro... |
| December 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So...Thanksgiving is over, you're settling back into your routine, getting ready for the work week, whatever. Not compl... |
| November 30, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Back in August, I began compiling stories for a book. I even started writing a post about it, talking about how I knew i... |
| November 11, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So you might have noticed that I'm a running a little late this month. Well, I'm back from vacation now, and since I'm n... |
| November 05, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| This news would be much more striking if I'd been posting every day, but I'm going to be out of town for a few days, so ... |
| October 29, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Here we are, in October. Are you enjoying it? I hope so. I'm a little angry about it, to tell you the truth.
I know I... |
| October 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I woke up early this morning. Determined. I had a plan. I went to bed early on a Friday night specifically so I could wa... |
| September 20, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You might have noticed it is September. I used to mark the month of September with the cooling temperatures, the beginni... |
| September 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I finally managed to get a few Hate Week 2009 postcards printed. I had originally planned on getting them printed by a ... |
| August 09, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Usually, I don't get too excited about writing the first "News" post of the month. Like, if this site was a porn movie, ... |
| August 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I am at Burger King eating Burger Shots. They are not very good at all, but I'm mostly here for the air conditioning
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| July 02, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Hey, gang, here's July. I got it for you. Because I care about each and every one of you.
Normally, I'd post whatever... |
| July 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So...been a while, huh?
Believe it or not, I actually have legit reasons for my absence and lack of posts. And, no, i... |
| June 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was recently trying to describe to some of my family what Twitter was about and why people are going all crazy about i... |
| June 06, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So...June. This is the month when life in Austin pretty much starts to suck nads. Everything is hot and wet--not like a... |
| June 01, 2009 |
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by Trey
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| If you're reading this, congratulations. The Swine Flu hasn't killed you yet.
Neither has the Avian Flu.
Nor SARS.
No... |
| May 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Welcome to May, everybody. Be honest--you weren't sure if I was gonna make it, were you?
Well, here I am, and here yo... |
| May 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| We aren't real big about advertising around here. Basically, we pimp our own little products and that's it. And even the... |
| April 20, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So it's April. Like you didn't know. I find April interesting mostly because it's the beginning of the name-after months... |
| April 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed lately that the site has been loading kind of slow. There's a technical reason for this, and Trey e... |
| March 27, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed that I haven't been posting much lately in the last week. Spring Break.
Usually, this break mean... |
| March 22, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| God help you if you're relying on me to keep you from messing up, but don't forget to change your clock, if you live in ... |
| March 09, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So March, huh? I don't have a lot to say about March, really. I mean, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kind of glad it's... |
| March 01, 2009 |
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by Trey
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| God help me. My guts are churning and I can barely breath.
Apparently the cheap ass generic cold medicine I'm snorting ... |
| February 26, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| This section was originally designed to display the weird randomness pulled from the police blotter section of The Canad... |
| February 10, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Welcome to a new month, Strangelanders. February, I believe it is. I don't have much use for this month, really. I mean... |
| February 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Inauguration Day, and I have to be honest with you--I got goose bumps listening to President Obama speak.
I'm not a ... |
| January 20, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Happy New Year, everybody. We just got back from our vacation (gone for almost two weeks), and I've got all kinds of stu... |
| January 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You have no idea how excited I've been for this moment. Ever since I told you I was writing a book about zombies, I hav... |
| December 15, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It's December. You know--the most wonderful time of the year. Or the hap, happiest time of the year. Some bullshit like... |
| December 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It's kind of a holiday tradition for me to stay up the night before Thanksgiving and write about sticking my hand insid... |
| November 27, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'm feeling much better, and I wanted to write a post for you tonight, but I had to get caught up on all the shit that p... |
| November 24, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So in case you haven't heard from my mom, I've been sick again. I got sick Sunday night, on the last night of her visit,... |
| November 20, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Last night, I wrote a post whining about one of my teachers and about my future in general. It wasn't funny at all, and ... |
| November 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| The following was originally posted on November second. Honestly, it's not even worth re-posting. But what happened was ... |
| November 07, 2008 |
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by Trey
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| It's done. It's over. Finally. Thank God.
I'm voting tomorrow, for the first time ever. There was a point I was excited... |
| November 04, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So it's November. Got that Thanksgiving thing going on this month, if you live in the States. If you don't, too bad for... |
| November 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Hey everybody. Happy Halloween. I was hoping to get some sort of scary story written for today, but it didn't work out. ... |
| October 31, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Here's the thing: I'm an idiot. I think we all know this by know. It's not an excuse, it's just a fact of life.
Mayb... |
| October 24, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So a while back, I had this huge art project (okay, it wasn’t really that huge, but it seemed like it to me because I s... |
| October 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Man, I was just on my way to bed. You know how you get right before bed, your eyes are all tired, and you're practicall... |
| October 01, 2008 |
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| September 16, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| As a child, I had a love/hate relationship with September. On the one hand, it meant that school started, and that made... |
| September 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I just wanted to remind everyone that I will soon be taking the Hate Week shirt out of our shirt shop (I'd add a link to... |
| August 30, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Every time I go a few days without posting something, it feels like I’ve gone weeks. This is probably due to some stran... |
| August 18, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It was recently suggested that we use each month’s tagline on a limited-time t-shirt in our shirt shop. For example, th... |
| August 08, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I totally forgot it was time for a new issue until I saw Lynne Grey’s latest post and saw that it was dated August 1st.... |
| August 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| In the comment section of another post, someone asked about a FAQ section to answer questions about posting. I'll talk t... |
| July 28, 2008 |
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by Trey
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| It’s 7 in the AM and you’ve finally managed to tuck an hour and a half under your belt when an explosive, phlemy, almos... |
| July 08, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Hello, and welcome to July. Thank you for choosing The Strangelands as your carrier, and we hope you enjoy you your tri... |
| July 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'm finishing off my move this weekend, in case you're wondering why no update yesterday. Yes, I realize I've been movin... |
| June 28, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Hey gang,I put up a couple new designs in the shirt shop. You can go over there if you want to see what I put them on (I... |
| June 25, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Depending on how astute you are, you may have noticed our new wall of pimping over on the right side of the main page.... |
| June 17, 2008 |
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by Lynne Grey
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| Hi everyone, my name is Lynne and I've been reading all this crazy stuff for a while now. I finally got the nerve to act... |
| June 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Welcome to June, Strangelanders. I spent the day moving to my new apartment and clothes shopping with my princess. It’s... |
| June 01, 2008 |
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| May 01, 2008 |
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| "Haw haw haw" is always funnier than "ha ha ha," believe you me.... |
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| April 01, 2008 |
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by Dave Riley
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| Ever notice how, when you say or write o' rather than of, hilarity ensues? Well, it does. ... |
| March 31, 2008 |
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by Trey
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| Started feeling guilty about the messed up comments so I took some time out of my roadtrip to try to fix them.
I'm hopi... |
| March 05, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So it’s March. Believe it or not, I don’t have a whole lot to say about that. I mean, there’s St. Patrick’s Day, if y... |
| March 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Hey kids, sorry to leave you so long with that last post about animals having sex. I’ve been extremely busy doing stup... |
| February 12, 2008 |
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by Trey
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| Ray was complaining about comment spam again.
In an effort to finally put an end to this stuff, I've added 'Captchas'.
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| February 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| People sometimes ask if it feels weird to put my writing up where everyone and anyone can read it. They ask how I can ... |
| February 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I recently mentioned that my princess read th... |
| January 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So I put together another book. You can find it here, if you’re in... |
| January 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Happy New Years, Strangelanders. Hopefully, most of you were able to usher in the new year with more debauchery than ... |
| January 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Merry Christmas, Strangelanders. I'm visiting my hometown at the moment, and my internet access is sporadic, so I'm not... |
| December 25, 2007 |
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by Trey
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| I’ve been out all night and a cold wind is blowing bad weather through the streets.
I should be in bed.
I’m leaving Ne... |
| December 17, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| UPDATED
Good old December. So good that they’ve made songs about how it’s the most ... |
| December 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Traditionally, I spend the night before Thanksgiving writing about how I’m going to be elbow-deep in turkey ass before ... |
| November 22, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I had a few minutes to kill before heading out to my Algebra class, so I figured I’d just write a quick little somethin... |
| November 05, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’ll be honest with you—I’m putting a lot of pressure on November this year. October ended up being mind bogglingly di... |
| November 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Sorry, kids—between school, work, and pain, I haven’t had much time to write. I’m hoping to be back in full effect soon... |
| October 19, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I woke up this morning because of a pain in my leg. It felt like the beginnings of a cramp, so I stood up quickly, hop... |
| October 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| October, finally! I love October. I’m not sure why, exactly, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the fact th... |
| October 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| All right. Maybe you’re all sick and tired of listening to me carry on about a Strangelands “podcast,” which is, funda... |
| September 24, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’m not nearly as smart as I need to be to tell you this. Sorry.
That said:
We at The Strangelands have recently... |
| September 18, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve been sick. I feel too rotten to bitch and moan about it right now. I have made an interesting discovery, though,... |
| September 13, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| If you check this site with any sort of regularity, you may have experienced page-loading problems lately. Maybe the oc... |
| September 06, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| UPDATE: I went through and changed the links so that they now lead to Podbean, which is... |
| September 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Okay, so I see we’ve all made it to September. Good job, team. September’s not my favorite month of the year by any m... |
| September 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve been kicking around the idea of some sort of Strangelands audio version for a while now, but I wasn’t really sure ... |
| August 27, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Life has seriously been getting in the way of things, as far as writing goes. Nothing important enough to talk about, ... |
| August 18, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| So it’s been sort of a strange weekend. Not good in a weird way, and not weird in a good way. Just…bleh. I went to b... |
| August 05, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| August. Oh, August. How I hate this month. I can’t think of one thing good about it. Oh, wait—I think Trey’s birthd... |
| August 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| It’s not that I don’t have anything to say about July, it’s just that because I’m such a very important person, I don’t... |
| July 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I'm off to start my vacation, kids. I'll have your First-Of-The-Month Quotes and your intro to July posted tomorrow, bu... |
| June 30, 2007 |
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by Trey
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| Recently, as some of you may have noticed, the comments on the site were spammed (one story had over 20k comments attach... |
| June 12, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Ah, June. I don’t really have much to say about June, except for mine doesn’t seem to be going all that well so far. ... |
| June 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Ah, May! The month of…of, um…man, I don’t know. It’s been a long day, and I don’t really feel up to being clever—you ... |
| May 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| All right, so I guess it’s time for me to drop some cash on this Portly Boy book thing. I’ve been saving up to buy an ... |
| April 09, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Trey’s back, and in position to fix the kooky tag line of the front page, but he told me tonight that he likes the way ... |
| April 03, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I had all Saturday to come up with something good to put up on the new issue. I went to bed early most of last week, s... |
| April 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Trey’s in Houston this weekend, and I have no idea what the hell I’m doing around here. Which means that of cou... |
| April 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I was just about to go to bed right now. It was a long lousy day, and when I got home, I saw that the maintenance men ... |
| March 02, 2007 |
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by Trey
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| 3 Years and counting. Who’d a’thunk it. Happy Birthday to all us freaks and geeks who call this low rent corner of the i... |
| February 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Well kids, it’s February, which means a couple of things. It means we made it through the post-holiday recovery month ... |
| February 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| So here’s the deal: I spent most of yesterday writing, working on a story that I really thought I would have finished ... |
| January 15, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| 12:45 a.m. January 6, 2007. Hate Week has officially begun. I celebrate by knocking back a shot of whiskey and a shot... |
| January 06, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| According to my brand-spankin’-new desk calendar, it’s 2007. Accordin... |
| January 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I was talking to Trey a while back, and we were discussing this website. “You know, I was thinking about it,” he said,... |
| December 12, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| EDIT: I was going through some of my wedding photos today, and found this one. This dud... |
| December 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Happy Thanksgiving, Strangelanders. Sorry there's no turkey preparation story this year, but I'm actually about to head... |
| November 23, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I GOT MARRIED!
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| November 11, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| Every so often when I’m talking to Ray well into our cups on a weekday evening, he just seems a bit too chipper and I fi... |
| November 07, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| As I was getting ready for bed last night, I saw a commercial for Crest whitening strips. There was a Christmas tune p... |
| November 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Time change tonight! Back to real time! Die, Daylight Savings Time, you evil bastard! Change your clocks with glee, ... |
| October 29, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Hey Strangelanders. I was in the shower the other day, and I suddenly realized that it was October and I haven’t told ... |
| October 22, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| The Strangelands is telling me that it’s a new month, and who am I to disagree? Nobody, that’s who. I don’t mind it b... |
| October 01, 2006 |
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by Jesse
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| Hello, Fellows.
It has been a shamefully long time since my last update or post. By some grace, I'm back again, alth... |
| September 25, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| I was planning on posting something tonight, but the muse is obviously someplace else.
Instead I made a couple site upd... |
| September 14, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I think that the internet is mostly just filled with crap. I mean, you have this medium that allows pretty much anyone... |
| September 07, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| All right, so we all made it to September. Way to go, team. For some reason I always associate September with going b... |
| September 02, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Instead of going out and buying a bottle of whiskey tonight, I bought exercise equipment. ... |
| August 23, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
August.
August who?
August of win... |
| August 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| There’s something I’ve been meaning to talk to you all about. The only reason I've waited this long is because I did’t ... |
| July 29, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| So I was messing around on the internet last night, not really looking for anything in particular, and I stumbled acros... |
| July 23, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| What’s up, kids? Hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July—whether you’re an American or not. I am, and although I wou... |
| July 07, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| July is “in the house,” as it were, and I for one, am really excited. I’m sorry…that’s not true. The part abou... |
| July 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I always get a little embarrassed when I write explicit sex scenes in my stories. I guess it’s because I feel that whe... |
| June 26, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| So this story “People Change” gets really explicit. And by that, I mean there’s some sex in there, and if you’re not i... |
| June 26, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| What’s up, kids?
In Ray news, my princess got back from Mexico, safe and sound. Her first meal after returning from... |
| June 18, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| First off, I would like to direct yo... |
| June 10, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| What’s up, Strangelanders? Looks like we made it to June. I don’t know if there’s really anything special in June. L... |
| June 02, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| So I was talking to Trey the other night, and we were discussing how cool we were for posting so many 2 Heartbeats stor... |
| May 23, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| I wanna pull on your coat about something. I wanna bend your ear. I wanna whisper my thoughts and faith into the cortex ... |
| May 04, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve been running various sentences through my head for the last forty-five minutes, wondering how, exactly, I wanted t... |
| May 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I'm sick as a damn dog. Have been for days, now. Just uhg, man. Going to bed now, I'll be back when I can think witho... |
| April 19, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Back in the day, Trey was the only one around here who had the power to begin a new issue of The Strangelands. What th... |
| April 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| In case you haven’t ever realized it, I don’t watch the news very often. Once in a while, someone will bring something... |
| March 18, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| So, I rolled out the redesign tonight.
There were all sorts of problems and the site was down for a bit of time tonight... |
| March 17, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| So, after a bit more than 2 years, I was thinking that the site needs a redesign.
I have a tentative design already up.... |
| March 14, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| So I’m posting the first part of the story. “Hunting Trip.” Yeah, baby, original as a mad bastard. Inspired, even, a... |
| March 07, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| All right, kids, I came up with a story for this week. It’s a haunting tale of a young boy that goes on a hunting trip... |
| March 06, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| At the request of Ray, I spent a couple of hours tonight adding comments to the site.
If you go to the bottom of any st... |
| March 02, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| “So, March, we meet again. I see you left your goons at home this time…”
“I won’t be needing zem zis time, Mr. Ray—g... |
| March 01, 2006 |
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by Trey
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| (FYI, Whoever I've been 'borrowing' internet access from finally wised... |
| February 21, 2006 |
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by Michael K
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| Just had to give a welcome happy birthday to The Strangelands. I'd like to say two years and still going strong but unf... |
| February 03, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| So, wow. Two years we’ve been doing this stuff. Two years of late-night kisses, midnight fights, and morning chats ov... |
| February 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Kuh-ryhme-eny, kids. I’ve been drinking cold coffee and warm whiskey for the last three hours, and not just for the sa... |
| January 11, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Hey kids, it’s that time again. Yeah, I can’t believe it, either, but it’s true—it’s been an entire year. Hate Week i... |
| January 06, 2006 |
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by Jesse
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| Wow, 2006. Nine months from now, I'll be reborn as a 24 year old, working class citizen. Fancy that. I wonder what other... |
| January 01, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| So it’s a brand new year…how do you feel about that? It’s a little after eight in the morning as I write this, ... |
| January 01, 2006 |
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by Jesse
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| Well, that last post of mine got pretty well... |
| December 25, 2005 |
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by Jesse
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| December 25, 2005 |
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by Carey
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| Before I begin my tirade on the PITA (pain in the a##) factor this strike in NYC is causing me, I'm going to ride Ray's ... |
| December 21, 2005 |
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by Jesse
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| It's finals time at UT... which sucks, cause I was done thinking about this crap about two weeks ago and yet effort is s... |
| December 15, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| One thing you may or may not know about me is that I love music mashups. To me, the only thing better than a good song... |
| December 09, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| All right, so I finally got my pictures posted, as... |
| December 07, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Yet another month has snuck away from me, escaped into the night like a lover that somehow managed to tear free of the ... |
| December 01, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| Added three new sites to the Links section.
We now have a link to the Palace Theatre in my home town of Canadian Texas.... |
| November 30, 2005 |
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by Carey
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| I have been talking about moving on a semi-regular basis over the past year. Many of my friends still don't believe it's... |
| November 29, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| So I’ve made it through Thanksgiving, which turned out to be a bigger event than I had planned. I mean, I know it’s a ... |
| November 28, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| A couple of things about the site.
I know some people have had trouble setting up photo galleries. I'm starting to thin... |
| November 22, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| It’s been awhile since I’ve gone on a tearing political rant.
Your welcome.
Some might say that this site isn’t about ... |
| November 22, 2005 |
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by Jesse
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| Let's back up a bit.
It was a crisp, dry day in December. I was home from college for the holidays and bored off my a... |
| November 17, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Hey kids. This isn’t a real post, so don’t get too excited. Just a couple of things I thought you might want to check... |
| November 16, 2005 |
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by Jesse
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| Now you see in movies, all the time, about mutation bestowing an enormous power and responsibility, and it always seem t... |
| November 14, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| So I finally got some of the pictures posted from my recent trip back home. If you’re wanting pictures of skyscrapers ... |
| November 11, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| About a year ago I turned over the new issue responsibilties to our boy Ray. After all, he's kept this site rolling thro... |
| November 02, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Hey Kids, this update is a few days old, but I figure you'll take what I give you, and beg for mor... |
| October 31, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Hey kids,
I had an update ready to post, but I can't find any place with a decent internet connection, so this is all y... |
| October 29, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Ah, October—this is where the year gets fun. We have a night dedicated to scaring the shit out of little kids—what cou... |
| October 01, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| I just finished typing my resignation letter. It’s short—only three or four sentences—and it’s pretty lame. But it ha... |
| September 26, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I own a mirror, I have eyes, I know I've put on a few pounds.
I like my Ben and Jerry's, there's a perfect ass shaped ... |
| September 13, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| It’s Sunday night, and I find myself in front of the computer once more, dreading the job that I have to go to at seven... |
| September 12, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| (Author’s note: I wrote this movie review while watching the movie, and it’s too long to proof read, so there are proba... |
| September 07, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| September. How exciting. It starts with an ess, ends with an are, and there’s nothing but fun in between, right?
I’... |
| September 01, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I looked at that huge list of ‘Ray’s running down the front page of the site and felt guilt. The poor freak is carrying ... |
| August 18, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| So I had yesterday off. You know what I did? Practically nothing, man. I just sat around, looking at various garbage... |
| August 04, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| Just so you don't think I'm neglecting this site, two little updates you might not have noticed.
1)We now have a favi... |
| August 02, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Well kids, here we are: a brand new month. August. Is there any month more exciting? I think we can all agree that ... |
| August 01, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Well kids, I’ve got some pretty big news. I proposed the option of marriage to my princess the other day. In case you... |
| July 24, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Okay, boys and girls, I gotta lot to tell you about, but I don’t know if I’m going to get around to it. Just about eve... |
| July 24, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I keep telling myself I'm a capitalist. I've spent the last 4 years of my life working for souless multi-national financ... |
| July 21, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Sometimes I feel like I should explain myself to everyone, like I should tell them that I’m really not a horribl... |
| July 10, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| What to say?
Our hearts and minds are with you London?
Our hopes and prayers are yours?
All are true, none can take t... |
| July 08, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| You know, I’m usually pretty bitter, and that’s cool. You go with your strengths, you know? But if you’re looking for... |
| July 08, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| I took a minute this evening to look back over some old issues, and it was sort of weird. Last year at this time, I wa... |
| July 02, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I wanna chew on your coat about something. It's not the usual strangelands ranting and raving, but there's some creepy s... |
| June 24, 2005 |
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by Carey
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| I have been extremely busy with work the past few weeks and consequently have not had time to post anything on this site... |
| June 17, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Hey Crew,
I posted some new pictures tonight, pre... |
| June 09, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| So, I'm staring into the last two lonely ice cubes melting away in my mason jar full of double discount whiskey.
Yes, i... |
| June 03, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| Generally I prefer busting things.
Beer bottles, furniture, family heirlooms, my ass.
But, sometimes I feel like fixin... |
| June 03, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Well, heck. I guess we made it to another issue. I went to enter a story, and when I got it posted, my computer told ... |
| June 01, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| posted a new photo gallery called "some old photos".
It's, well, some old photos. I used to take tons o... |
| May 24, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| So, after a year of the strangelands I actually got around to looking at the site statistics for the last month.
I thou... |
| May 24, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| Weds night with whiskey. Gotta get up early tomorrow, but who has time to care. A fellow can learn to live with a hango... |
| May 19, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Glad you could join us once again. I feel like a depraved sort of Mr. Rogers, sometimes: walking through the door, ch... |
| May 03, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| It’s bedtime, boys and girls. I’ve probably got just enough time to tell a bedtime story, so I’ll tell it, if you’re w... |
| April 29, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Well, here we are. It’s just you and I, and the occasional shadow. The dog downstairs is barking like mad, he always ... |
| April 19, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| April first, man. The highlight of my day is going to be starting a new issue of The Strangelands. The low point will... |
| April 01, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| Posting problems should be resolved now.
I had to go through every page in the administrative section and force re-en... |
| March 16, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| In case you did not read "a note from the admin" below, I thought I would repost this with a slightly more accurate titl... |
| March 15, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| I talked a while back about how hard it was for me to decide on a style of haircut--being a fat guy, you can screw up an... |
| March 14, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| So, I have noticed that some stories are being rejected upon posting.
I have looked into the issue and it is related to... |
| March 11, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| It’s a new month again, in case you haven’t noticed. I’m sure there are all kinds of amazing things going on around be... |
| March 02, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve been thinking about my brother. I don’t know why, really. Just have. He’s growing up, and I have been getting o... |
| February 05, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I got a new Canon 300D digital camera, and I figured I'd post a few pics taken with it. I only found 8 I liked, so to s... |
| February 04, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I coulda gone to sleep early tonight. Woken up with 8 solid under my belt, a grin on my freshly shaven face, and a spri... |
| February 01, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| You might have noticed that the stories are listed in a different order now.
Stories used to be listed with the oldest ... |
| January 27, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| CLICK ME
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| January 25, 2005 |
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by JFK Harris
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| "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." - Stalin
I do wonder.
I wonder about war all the time and everyw... |
| January 20, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| I wonder.
I wonder about the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place.
When is the right war, time, and place?
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| January 20, 2005 |
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by Trey
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| Some intresting reading from Iraq.
LTC Tim Ryan is Commander, Task Force 2-12 Cavalry, First Cavalry Division in Iraq: ... |
| January 19, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Leave it to Hyde, man. The tag line, in case you haven’t noticed, is “No Time For Love, Dr. Jones.” One of the best ... |
| January 06, 2005 |
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by Carey
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| Well here we are, five days into a new year and I haven't had the opportunity to write 2005 on anything. I almost feel l... |
| January 05, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| Well, it seems as though we’ve ushered in a new year. Someone has done something like ushered in, apparently—it’s all ... |
| January 05, 2005 |
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by Ray
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| It’s December, in case you haven’t noticed. The holiday season is officially here, I guess—and I don’t just mean like ... |
| December 07, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| The election is over, and, thank you John Kerry, platoons of disappointed lawyers have trudged home with briefcases full... |
| November 05, 2004 |
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by Carey
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| They say it's not over till the Fat Lady sings, but this latest national show ended with one simple concessional phone c... |
| November 04, 2004 |
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by Ray
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| Here we are again, you and I. All of us. Alone in the dark, no matter how much light you might have as you read this.... |
| November 02, 2004 |
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by Ray
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| Word up, ladies and gentlemen, freaks and geeks, children of all ages. I've finally gotten some internet here in Texas,... |
| October 12, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| "I'll be with you in a moment", the mindless voice announced.
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"How can I help you? 45 for 1, 65 for 2. That'... |
| September 04, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| A wendensday night...
Following in the footsteps of the great authors of old, I got good and drunk to post the intro fo... |
| August 05, 2004 |
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by Carey
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| Thirteen years ago I decided that I really wanted a pet in my life and contemplating my busy lifestyle I figured a cat w... |
| July 23, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| TheStrangelands.com is surprised to be celebrating it's 6 month anniversary.
Yes, it's true. Oh rare and appreciated r... |
| July 05, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| This short cigar belongs to the man with no name.
This long gun belongs to the man with no name.
This poncho belongs t... |
| June 02, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| A month come and gone, yet The Strangelands remains.
Last month we had 12 stories posted by 4 different autho... |
| March 04, 2004 |
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by Trey
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| According to this report from the New Yo... |
| February 04, 2004 |
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