Thanksgiving Break

Posting will be light over the next few days due to the holiday. We’re heading south for family time with potential surprise appearances by renegade cousins. There should be much vegetarian food all around and considerable amounts of couch and porch sitting, along with football watching, culminating in the Iron Bowl on Friday.
We’ll be back [...]

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Mondaze

Sorry for the slight delays in posting. Last week was crazy (out of town trips followed by in-town work obligations followed by weekend football explosion). Expect more from Toxic Culture this week, including more action-packed posts that will prompt thrilling discussions in the comments section about whether, even though it’s polite to remember the names [...]

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We Know Them – August 09

Just thought we could take a minute to run you down the list of links over there on the side of this blog (what the kids are calling “the blogroll”). We give links to people we love like know personally and who do a good job of running one of those fancy Internet blogs that [...]

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The comment contest: Our winners

It was a crazy week at Toxic Culture. We saw the Great Vaccine Debate unfold here – truly, one of the best discussions-in-the-comments-section I’ve EVER seen, complete with cites and everything. On a parallel track, the Haiku-off warmed our hearts and taught us all how to love again.
And yes, all our commenters were winners. But [...]

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We love our readers: The comment contest

We love to write, and so we love this blog because it lets us feel like Real Writers in that our work is a) published and b) read, at least in theory, by others. We do know that sometimes people read what we write, because they occasionally leave comments about our work. Sometimes they even [...]

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Inter-Species Wrestling

There has been a lot of wild speculation recently in the comments section of the blog about our brief hiatus.
Now that it’s completed, we can finally tell you where we have been:
Inter-Species Wrestling
We are talking panda luchas and zombies who carry around body bags. We’re talking top rope musicals.
It speaks to our inner Hemingway qua [...]

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Light posting, but full tenure

We’ve got some stuff going on this week, so posting’s going to be lighter than usual.  Hopefully we can still satisfy your interest in providing superior Internet content combined with inappropriate jokes and critiques of capitalism. Maybe we’ll even say yes once in a while. In the meantime, we’ve got this picture to remind you [...]

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Where I’ve Been

Baby, I’m back.
Wow, Kate pointed out to me that it had been nearly 65 million years since I had blogged. I didn’t believe it was true, but then again, I have been using the Mayan calendar (welcome Quetzalcoatl!), so what the hell do I know about time?
Anyway, I’m sure you want to know where I [...]

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Greetings and Salutations

It’s early Monday morning and the pets are quietly licking themselves while I eat my onion bagel. The federal governent is still trying to squirt out its trillion dollar stimulus bill.
Posting may be a little lighter than usual this week. Kate’s out of the country for a good while and I have a lot of [...]

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Posting May Be Light

We at Toxic Culture are setting out on yet another trip. This one is a drive. As a climax to a travel-packed end of the year, we’re driving nearly the length of the entire nation. It might take a little while. It might not be pretty. We don’t have one of those fancy satellite uplinks [...]

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