The Geecologist

The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

Nov 3, 2018 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot. Smug in their bias, snug in it, they amused themselves with speculation on his ancestry and probably sexual prowess while they frisked him. They him flat on his back....
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4 3 2 1

Sep 29, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

So there they were in July 1961, about to set off for Camp Paradise at the start of that eventful summer when all the news from the outside world seemed to be bad news: the wall going up in Berlin, Ernest Hemingway blasting a bullet through his skull in the mountains...
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4 3 2 1

Jul 18, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

On the other hand, he did have his inspired moments, inexplicable jags of rambunctiousness when something in him was temporarily set free and he turned into a joking, daredevil prankster, as, for example, the night when he showed off for her in the kitchen of her...
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

Feb 13, 2016 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

A few days before I flew to San Francisco to meet Adria, I posted a message on 4chan/b/ asking for anyone personally involved in her destruction to contact me. The message was deleted in less than a minute. I posted another request. That one vanished after a few...
What If?

What If?

May 22, 2015 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

NEW YORK–STYLE TIME MACHINE Q. I assume when you travel back in time you end up at the same spot on the Earth’s surface. At least, that’s how it worked in the Back to the Future movies. If so, what would it be like if you traveled back in time, starting in Times...