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What I Learned Playing Mafia Wars | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. What I Learned Playing Mafia Wars. March 14, 2015. In the early days of social media, when my friends list numbered in the single digits and my news feed was shorter than an Op-Ed column, I flirted with Facebook’s entertainment department more pointedly, with the massively multiplayer online role playing game called Mafia Wars. You might say I had an affair. Eventually I realized I was chasing rainbows. The game had no ultimate goal, no finish line, no quantitative...
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A Meow For Help | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. A Meow For Help. October 22, 2014. You go in knowing it’ll die before you. You file that knowledge deep in a drawer marked ‘Later’ and forget about it. You give it your last name. You photograph it as much as your human kids. Years pass. Life without pet becomes a distant memory. I diagnosed him (and my distraught 9-year old) with loneliness and filled the void with a kitten. Lightning joined us at the end of April, less than ten days after Sage disappeared. Sh...I’d c...
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Endings and Beginnings | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. January 4, 2015. Dear Readers, I would like to thank you for sharing time with my thoughts and musings here at callmethoreau, and invite you to join my latest endeavor. As you probably know, this blog hasn’t been very active lately. This is because my time has been spent exclusively on fiction, which is after all my passion. Satire and speculative fiction. At Tales of Terra. To continue, please click on either the link above or right here. As always, thanks for reading.
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Buffy Summers Saved My Life | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy Summers Saved My Life. June 23, 2015. So you can imagine my chagrin when, years after the dust settled, I discovered the creator of my all-time favorite space opera. Was single-handedly responsible for the existence of. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I told myself I was studying the emergence of Eliza Dushku, the star of Whedon’s. Series, and David Boreanaz, known for his role in. Once Upon a Time. And she had no reason to be watching. Buffy ...
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Water We Thinking? | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. Indian Child Welfare Act. June 18, 2015. A Michigan family recently lost their children. Because they were living in a tent instead of a house. It was a summer trip, the family owned a home, and they had permission to camp on the property, yet county officials cited them for not living in a stable environment, and having no electricity or water source, among other things. In unrelated news, scientists are agog over the purifying properties of. Wait, you might say, how ...
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Father’s Day Resolution | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. June 19, 2015. Please do not send me any greeting cards or well-wishes this Father’s Day. I don’t deserve them. Century. I forget to send thank-you cards and don’t return e-mails or phone calls. I have been, in short, a crappy friend. I can’t even claim ignorance. This wasn’t written after an epiphany about my behavior. I’ve watched myself get distracted, then feel guilty and build a philosophy to alleviate the feeling instead of doing something about it. There’s a ker...
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The Prophet Motive | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. March 17, 2015. As you may know, three years ago I vowed not to cut my hair until I had been published, won a contest, or otherwise significantly kick-started my writing career. It started with a moment of doubt. After receiving another form rejection slip from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction I questioned whether I would ever get published. If I died without selling a story would the act of writing have been a big enough reward? It was good practice, I was ...
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I Don’t Like to Hike | Call Me Thoreau
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The philosophy of a modern pioneer. I Don’t Like to Hike. May 20, 2015. The other day I took an epic hike in the Columbia River Gorge. It felt great to be a part of nature again, to reconnect with the silence and solitude of the forest. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d made a point to step away from my busy city life to embark on such an adventure. Wait, strike that. Okay, that was a judgment. When you get far enough away from any path you can reasonably expect to meet people on, the forest changes&...
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