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Recently voted "The Best Humor Site in America That I, Personally, Write," The Byronic Man is sometimes fiction, but sometimes autobiography. And sometimes cultural criticism. Oh, and occasionally reviews. Okay, it's all those different things, but always humorous. Except on the occasions that it's not. Ah, geez. Look, it's a lot of things, okay? You might like it, is the point.

Ask Sexy Stalin!

August 28, 2012

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Having problems with your relationships?  Worried about financial planning?  Paranoid that everyone around you is plotting your downfall and wishing to have them banished to a frozen hell-scape?  Looking for a swarthy, attractive man to show you the way?  Well you’re in luck, because it’s time once again to… Ask Sexy Stalin! Jules from Go […]

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Housekeeping and Interviews

August 26, 2012

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First order of business: Just a note on Neil Armstrong’s passing away – what an amazing human being, not just because he was the first person to walk on an extra-terrestrial surface, but because by all accounts he was an incredibly decent, honorable, intelligent, hard-working person.  He was, in other words, exactly the sort of […]

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Byronic Man Goes On The (Virtual) Road

August 25, 2012

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Quick note today: Recently Emily over at Snotting Black asked if I’d be interested in writing a guest post on the theme “I Immediately Regret Doing This.”  Well, I think she might be writing a post on immediately regretting asking me to guest post, because I didn’t think at the time that I’d be doing […]

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Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 5: Death Holds A Staring Contest

August 24, 2012

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And now, continuing from part 4, the conclusion of… Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin Part 5: Death Holds A Staring Contest Ditching the Death Blood Cult priest had been easy – what with him having no eyes and all – but the fact that he knew they were coming meant they had no time […]

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Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 4: Hidden Where None Dare Venture

August 23, 2012

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Continued from Part 3… Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 4: Hidden Where None Dare Venture Maxine frantically searched through the bottles and glasses behind the bar, crouched down out of the line of fire.  On the other side of the bar, an enormous brawl had broken out between Dragon and his henchmen, the […]

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Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 3: The Smell of Danger

August 22, 2012

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**Continuing Part 1 and Part 2 of our Choose Your Own Adventure week** Max And The Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 3: The Smell of Danger Reginald Winterthrop, when he was alive, was a man of rigid dignity and noble adventure – until the unfortunate instance in the Egyptian tomb left him a ghost, doomed to […]

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Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 2: Currying Favor

August 21, 2012

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Continued from yesterday’s Part 1: The Past Comes Knocking. Max And The Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 2: Currying Favor Maxine looked at Paulson, then at the door – behind which the pounding had reached a thunderous level – then back at Paulson.  She smiled.  “Agent Paulson, do me favor?  Get the door?” Paulson tensed.  “Max…!” […]

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Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 1: The Past Comes Knocking

August 20, 2012

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*Today begins a week-long Choose Your Own Adventure story*  Be sure to vote at the end! Max and the Argentinian Death Penguin, Part 1: The Past Comes Knocking Deep in a part of the city where it was always night and the primary pass-time was trying to get out of that part of the city, […]

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