SANTA CLARITA — A father who has struggled with his teenage daughter’s addiction to social media has created a web site to compete with YouTube and TikTok and that he claims will increase the intelligence of viewers. Idris Frank, a… Read More ›
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Persona Cracked: Lucy Leitner
Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Lucy Leitner, is author of three novels and writer of transgressive fiction whose work contains strong elements of horror and satire…. Read More ›
Opinion: My Cobra Kai t-shirt makes me immune to everything
I was looking forward to a fresh start in 2022. Weren’t you? The shutdown in March 2020 – damn, almost two years ago — was tough on my barbershop, and recovery hasn’t been easy. Wearing a muzzle on my face… Read More ›
Aussies mixed about carbon-capturing ‘snow-cone’ machine
AYERS ROCK, AUS – This vast island continent, which endured devastating wildfires from 2019 to 2020 that burned more than 10 million hectares of land and killed over a billion animals, is set to participate in a United Nations’ program… Read More ›
Rampage leaves splattered victims, questions in wake of violence
PITTSBURGH – After an extreme dieter ran over several overweight pedestrians this week, members of this shocked community wondered if there were any connection between the victims, besides obesity. “It just doesn’t make sense,” said Tina Ward, 35, a dog… Read More ›
CEO demonstrates app’s ‘Outrage’ meter
PITTSBURGH – Those slights, abuses, and crimes that often go unreported can now be witnessed and judged by anyone with a swipe on their device. Chatter, a downloadable app designed for ‘concerned citizens, neighborhood gadflies, and social-justice heroes,’ launched this… Read More ›
Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice
Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›
Bar soap helps users ‘escape’ constraints of pandemic lifestyle
LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›
Witnesses: Time traveler explores ‘infinite tedium of cosmos’
HILL VALLEY – A man believed to regularly travel through time uses his unique temporal abilities to measure how little food he can consume and other ways to have as little impact on the past, present, and future as possible,… Read More ›
Zoom call ‘glitch’ reveals alien invasion
INLAND EMPIRE — A suburban software engineer who claimed to have clocked in more than 1,500 virtual meetings since the shelter-in-place order began in March, provided evidence to the public during a live-streamed presentation on Friday that he believed showed… Read More ›
The La-La Lander 