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Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 7

17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

Despite this encouraging result, however, this doesn’t necessarily prove anything, regarding whether these wedding rings work or not. It’s a tiny sample size, but there’s also a problem here in how that whole interaction had developed. The exper...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 6

15 Aug 2025 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

“IT DOES MATTER!” Pete Ravage screams, in this brightly lit aisle, near the front of the department store. Passing shoppers pause with their carts, shoot querulous glances our way. Dylan and I exchange similar looks ourselves, wondering just how...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 5

14 Aug 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

If Aaron is the slightly older, composed and well put together friend, then Robby is the crass inversion of those attributes. Slightly older than us as well, and even usually dressing snazzily when out on the town, but his behavior lies at the u...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 4

13 Aug 2025 18 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Eventually, blessedly, Joe talks Angel into pouting instead at that corner table with Dylan, Pete, and Phil. When they leave, Aaron and I move a few steps closer to the dance floor railing, a seemingly prime spot right by the gap in said railing...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 3

11 Aug 2025 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

After Joe climbs into Angel’s miniature coupe, they follow us in still another direction, north across town to Jumpers. As we approach the entrance, a doorman in a chair is checking IDs, standard protocol at places like these. Except upon reachi...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 2

10 Aug 2025 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Upon our return, we can see that about half of Dylan’s lame older coworkers — older only in the sense that they are in their late 30s to middle 40s — have left. The rest have ventured across the aisle for seats at the bar, presumably as an act o...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 1

9 Aug 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Smacking unknown chicks on the ass is maybe not as common as it once was. But herein lies the dilemma for those of us trudging through this current nightlife hinterland, a route which is largely improvisational. The public and especially on...

#CrapGotPublished - Castration The Advantages and the Disadvantages

10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments FabulousBro

Every week I present a new book, that is in my opinion crap that somebody has published... The event runs under the hastags 🙈 #RandomThingsTuesday #CrapGotPublished The next book of this series is the one with the lovely title: "Castration The Advan...

Learning the word family of “laugh”

12 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Another lesson. Mr Heng got Jerrick to read all the third words in the Dolch list. Jerrick read most words clearly. It was time to move on. Mr Heng chose ‘laugh’ as it was a phonetically irregular word. He got his student to spell these words: la...

Reading brings about a true tranquility of mind.

15 Jul 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Midnight Sorrow

Effects of "deep reading" also found in religious traditions   *The lost skill of "deep reading" In the book "Net Idiot--What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," published in 2010 and increasingly more applicable today, journalist and sociologist...