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Emotional Crowd Gathers to See Some County Operational Funding Restored to Samuels Library in Current Fiscal Year
Royal Examiner: At the February 17 meeting, I was the first public commenter to support repealing Chapter 7 and dissolving the inactive County Library Board. My remarks emphasized administrative clarity before the board voted to restore $100,000 in library funding. Read More
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100 Word Stories: Champion of the Backyard Games
A 100-word challenge sparked playful wordplay: “X,” “Spear,” and “Mint” became Experiment. Beneath the absurd Olympic fantasy lies an imagined childhood scene—transforming a toothbrush and garage wall into triumph—celebrating how imagination turns the ordinary into epic victory. Read More
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100 Word Stories: Relativity Detour
Wrote and produced a 44-second microfiction for the “Vanishing Point” challenge, inspired by Escher, Labyrinth, and A-ha’s “Take On Me.” Blended nostalgia, surreal tension, and sound design using producer.ai and Audacity to create an audio story from start to finish. Read More
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100 Word Stories: Nip from Another Dimension
A feast fit for a feline queen turns surreal when “fancy” catnip enters the scene—not the boring stuff that loses its scent, but the cosmic kind that rattles reality, bends senses, and makes time politely shake hands with sound. Read More
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100 Word Stories: The Ledger of the Woods
A silent, one-eyed owl watches the forest like a carved sentinel, his presence hushed and heavy beneath the moon’s reflected beauty. Rarely speaking, he challenges wanderers not with “who,” but “whom,” demanding accountability before anyone dares to pass. Read More
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Monica Podcast: Effective Output, Uneasy Terms
This review documents an early-2026 evaluation of Monica Podcast, an AI podcast generator that delivers compelling results while surrounding them with pressure-driven pricing, opaque policy terms, and consent-shaping interface design. Effective output, uneasy terms. Read More
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100 Word Stories: Superpowers of Spooker Boy
Behind this Paranoid challenge story, I leaned into Gen X childhood nostalgia, streetlights signaling curfew, and turned paranoia into awareness. Spooker Boy’s superpower is simply observation. I recorded it with Audacity, shaped producer.ai music, and aimed for playful tension throughout. Read More
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The Slide Whistle That Didn’t Become a Chew Toy
An Amazon approved review of the American Song Whistle shows how this nickel-plated slide whistle moves beyond novelty. With real pitch control, stable harmonics, and surprising musical range, it proves that even comic instruments can sing. Read More
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Bright, complex-sounding tingsha with a fast decay
An Amazon approved review of Boao Tibetan tingsha bells examines their bright, high pitched tone, measured decay time, and harmonic complexity. Spectrogram analysis reveals shimmering overtones, making these weighty meditation cymbals well suited for sound cues, mindfulness, and audio experiments. Read More
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Cartilage-Powered Music, Finally
An Amazon approved review of the Original Blue Kazoo explores its anodized aluminum body, replaceable membranes, and surprising durability. From silent shipping mishaps to cartilage powered nose playing, this pocket sized instrument proves novelty and engineering can happily collide. Read More