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Another Great Halloween Record

  • Michael R. Clark

Michael R. Clark

25 May 2011
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Scar Stuff: Wade Denning "Famous Ghost Stories With Scary Sounds" (Pickwick, SPC-5146, 1975).

I remember this one had a terrifying version of "The Telltale Heart." "The Haunted Gold Mine" was another favorite.  And check out the simple, yet effective, cover art.

Get Real: Seeing, Making, and Resisting AI Slop

Get Real: Seeing, Making, and Resisting AI Slop

Science confirms what I have come to feel in my bones in the last two years: LLMs are making my students less creative.   A piece in the New York Times last week clocks the decline in “substance” in student writing (specifically, the notorious college essay) even as the use of
02 Jun 2026 4 min read
Friday Poem: "O Full of Scorpions"

Friday Poem: "O Full of Scorpions"

This poem's title alludes to Macbeth's line that concludes, "...is my mind, dear wife." When I was a kid, I seemed to absorb all kinds of strange advice when I was in the Boy Scouts. One rule we had when camping was to always
29 May 2026 1 min read
Friday Poem: "Anatomy of a Five-Lined Skink"

Friday Poem: "Anatomy of a Five-Lined Skink"

As someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD late in life, I have had a hard time reconciling my past experiences with this new (to me) lens of neurodivergence. When I reread past poems like this one, which I originally wrote when I was in my 20s, it becomes much
22 May 2026 1 min read
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