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November, 2016: Election Day in America

November, 2016: Election Day in America

“Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

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October, 2016: We Interrupt this Broadcast

October, 2016: We Interrupt this Broadcast

Can you bloody BELIEVE that it’s time to start preparing your submission for the Art and Olfaction Awards, again? Heck, we’ve barely recovered from our last event.

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4th annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions open

4th annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions open

The time is now! We are now accepting submissions for the fourth annual Art and Olfaction Awards. Submission for the awards are made through a two-part submission process.

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July, 2016: Eclectic Ephemera

July, 2016: Eclectic Ephemera

Voltaire’s Sirian giant Micromégas comes across a battalion of humans at war, and finds himself shocked at the barbarity of what he sees. He asks a philosopher: What is going on, here?

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June, 2016: Happy Syncopations

June, 2016: Happy Syncopations

“I’m just a Happy Guy!” he said. He capitalized the letters, I swear. “Maybe it’s all the music I listened to growing up! HA! HA!”

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May, 2016: The Origin of the Golden Pear

May, 2016: The Origin of the Golden Pear

Once upon a time, a high-ranking accounting official in the ministry of transportation affairs and a largely ornamental house-husband with a mean shakshouka recipe gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

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April, 2016: NSFW (True Story)

April, 2016: NSFW (True Story)

He smelled like stale cigarettes, unwashed teenage armpits and a strident, neon cologne – the kind the desperately poor might buy at Boots and spray onto badly washed clothes before a job interview. Moral of the story?

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March, 2016: Bad Titles For Email Newsletters

March, 2016: Bad Titles For Email Newsletters

This Thing Is In Your Inbox. Stinky News Inside! We’ve Re-Organized Our Newsletter! We’re Going to Italy, but You’re Probably Not… We Met a Guy From Iowa. Eggs Come In Their Own Wrappers.

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January, 2016: Roman Passageways

January, 2016: Roman Passageways

Thanks to the saturnine god of agriculture, wealth and dissolution, two-faced Janus was given the ability to simultaneously see the future and the past; one face forward, the other back. Janus’ name comes from ‘ianus’, the latin word for door.

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