Architecture

01 September 2001: Oxford
It was 1300 or so, and I had gone to Oxford, the one place I could acquire a higher education....
10 July 2001: Cars
I had a car. A little red thing, two doors, very compact. I started off down in the bowels of...
08 May 2001: Mason&Dixon II
I was visiting London as a guest of the famous Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, only...I couldn't find them...
07 April 2001: Like _Equus_, only with Pastries
Like Equus, only with pastry...There was a tiny, tiny bakery up on a hill, in a part of town I'd...
05 January 2001: House of Many Colours
Mr Graham Sleight and I were both dressed as proper late-Victorian gentlemen, out for a stroll through Iowa City in...
18 December 2000: Judy Garland and Cancer
Judy Garland and her mother (whom Judy kept in a little wooden box about four inches square) were suffering from...
17 December 2000: Penis Power
I was standing in the back yard in Counciltucky when two ruffians showed up and started acting thuggish. They were...
18 November 2000: Wonkatastic
I was dressed up as Willy Wonka, ice-skating, spinning and leaping across a supermarket while singing 'There is no life...
17 November 2000: A Night at the Opera
I was ushering in a great opera house, a vast place shaped like a quarter-sphere, with the semicircular stage running...
09 October 2000: The Word
A friend of mine had come to visit...I met him when he arrived, and took him back with me. I...
20 August 2000: FCC = Big Brother
I was staying in a resort hotel of some sort with my parents. We had a suite of rooms up...
20 May 2000: A Tower, a Biplane, a Cow
Something naughty was going down, and for a change it wasn't me. I was in a huge, rambling Gothic palace,...
21 March 2000: Greek Orthodox
I was wandering through an idyllic, garden-like scene. I had arrived via air, with my family, but I ditched them...
26 December 1999: Dream in Four Movements
This dream appeared to consist of four distinct parts, all run together... I. Eric Errthum, a physics and math double-major...
26 November 1999: Precambrians
I was in a University hall, either Jessup or MacLean on the Pentacrest, probably Jessup. The interior was in a...
03 November 1999: Pazzi Chapel
I was in New York City, travelling with a companion along an elevated way on pillars. Nothing recognisably New Yorkish...
18 September 1999: Destroying the Sun
It started off at Van Allen Hall, the University's physics building. One corner of it had been gutted, was just...
31 July 1999: Live and Let Die
The Society was looking for a home. There were many of us, mostly men ranging from the fresh-faced and young...
22 June 1999: The Empress of Krill
Far away across the sea, a woman was visiting the small island of Krill. It was almost entirely covered by...
12 June 1999: Evil Gay Ben II: Sonny Bono
I lived in a cute little brick cottage at the end of a cul-de-sac in a very nice neighborhood, right...
30 April 1999: The House that Dad Built
My father had built what appeared to be an ugly three-story house, with yellow siding...basically a big box with windows....
21 December 1998: Phallic Towers
It was set in Iowa City, though it looked rather different. The trees were everywhere, almost as though it was...
20 August 1998: Playground
Do you know how playgrounds sometimes have these big wooden castle-like complexes of slides, tunnels, shaky bridges and things for...
25 July 1998: Architecture
This time I had a real doozy, felt like it went on forever. Set in this big rambling terraced sort...