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The Burger Madness of Bio-Sapien
Eat like a villain! Eat like a hero! Get abducted and probed by an alien spacecraft!
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Fear of the Trans Child
From one perspective, early transition is the ideal outcome of gender dysphoria for cissexual society. A child who avoids natal puberty will, on average, blend in better with others of their gender, and in regions where transition-related procedures are covered by insurance, will likely end up costing the state and/or insurance providers much less in…
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My Best Hot Dog Articles of the Year
Every year, 1-900 Hot Dog picks a few paid articles by each author to make free. This year, they asked members of the community to decide, and they chose some of my disgusting and bizarre pieces. They range from a Canadian made-for-TV movie about a skateboarding alien to a self-published novella by a meat maniac…
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Balloonatiks: Christmas Without a Claus
It’s been nearly three years since I wrote about the Balloonatiks, the dogged attempt of one latex fetishist to make his living balloon superhero team into a transmedia empire. Like Sisyphus, Tony DiIoia pushed a giant balloon up a hill for decades, only to see it tumble back down over and over. The fact that it…
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How the Hampsters Saved Winter
Getting old sneaks up on you. It’s a state of mind that takes hold bit by bit with every contemptuous dismissal of the new, every retreat to the familiar. I saw the middlingest minds of my generation destroyed by Tung Tung Tung Sahur, malding hysterical red-faced, dragging themselves through the timelines at dawn looking for The…
