Monthly Archives: February 2000

Zip the commercials!

Advertising is everywhere these days. It’s becoming like that Pohl and Kornbluth story, where advertising was even on the wallpaper and toilet paper. I think it’s gone far enough. I think people should be allowed to pay more for no … Continue reading

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Background for Chumbe Bandia

What is the Industrial States Trust? In Chumbe Bandia, the Industrial States Trust, or simply, IT, is the name of an alliance of economically powerful and highly technological countries who, before the war, ruled the global economy. Most of the … Continue reading

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Chumbe Bandia

“Entry 64 “Things are quiet now and I have a few to jot a note in my diary before before they send us to Prep. Warden Mausa says it’s another sample mission?just routine. That’s a patent lie though. If these … Continue reading

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What I Have to Say About Music

Or, how a young man was warped by endless exposure to college radio When I was a kid I really couldn’t make up my mind about music. Like a lot of kids, I was a knee-jerk nonconformist and as such … Continue reading

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