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    The day Frank Columbo met Eugenio Franchitti was a day blessed by God: God and all the real angels and saints, specifically Adjutor, Philip Neri, and Barbara. The war was going full swing; on the beach there were the leftovers, the women and boys and girls, and the oldest Franchitti kids who hadn’t shipped overseas, Geno and Cecilia, first cousins. Frank hadn’t noticed ’em at first, either of ’em, the tall and lanky boy and girl with skin like gold and eyelashes like fringed velvet burlesque fans, physical traits the magazines said you could shell out for but the Franchitti kids had ’em in spades all natural; but once he had he couldn’t stop noticin'.

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    The story of how Columbo and Mrs. Columbo came to be.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Jack was still not quite sure how Darling had managed to swing them a shared staircase with no one else on it for their final year. "Interlopers, my dear Jonathan," Darling had said, "are not to be borne in this, our collegiate idyll."

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    21 Oct 2019

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    M’Baku fought for T’Challa. But should he keep fighting for T’Challa’s vision? The king is professing change, such deep change, while the Jabari are supposed to be the guardians of tradition.

    It’s a complex problem, which demands a cool head. So M’Baku could really do without an old love coming back to haunt him, an obnoxious royal teenager, and T’Challa’s secret one-armed guest.

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    29 Sep 2018

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    "As you keep pointing out, I've died twice," said Gansey. He was so bright that Henry almost wanted to look away from him, and so compelling that he couldn't. "I don't care what I'm supposed to be doing."

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    16 Jul 2016

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    This is a copy of an essay I wrote for my "Music and Literature" course. It examines six songs related to Captain America, beginning with the infamous Star Spangled Man with a Plan" and then fan-produced filk music, and how transformative fandom has influenced the Captain America and Steve Rogers identities.

    "The importance of the individual Steve Rogers becomes relegated to the side when considering the power of the Captain America mythos yet at the same time, it is impossible to have Captain America without the individual. Taking both figures into consideration, transformative fandom has appropriated both the individual and the mythos into political statements offering subversive readings of a hegemonic cultural production."

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    01 Jun 2016

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    incredible Cap meta + filk + MCU-verse historical analysis and it's amazing