All of the Fun

(09/07/06) - Harry Potter and the Stupid Titles
(08/26/06) - Absent Theories
(06/19/06) - Mirai Ninja for teh win!
(05/10/06) - Mulch and Switch
(04/03/06) - Snakes on a Plane in a Theater
(03/21/06) - The Dullest Nightmare
(01/24/06) - Some Other Bracelets
(01/22/06) - The Thing about Procrastination
(01/09/06) - A Brief, Disjointed Conversation with a Moral
(01/06/06) - pyre's diet secrets
(01/02/06) - Brand New Year, Same Old Fun
(12/29/05) - Stumpy reviews Civ4
(12/28/05) - pd: Fighting crime in a future time?
(12/25/05) - Merry Xmas!
(12/19/05) - Violent Video Games
(12/13/05) - My Very Own Sin
(12/07/05) - p-P: ewwww
(11/28/05) - Resignation
(10/31/05) - It'd Take a Miracle
(10/23/05) - Mirror
(10/19/05) - The Faygo Song
(10/15/05) - pJ 2: Interview Boogaloo
(10/10/05) - Yeah, Write
(10/05/05) - The Stars are Right
(09/30/05) - Spoiler-Free Serenity Review
(09/29/05) - Rather Cunning, Dontcha Think?
(09/27/05) - Teh Newz
(09/21/05) - Krakathoom!
(09/19/05) - Hamlet and Monkeypowerhour
(09/13/05) - Staff of Trained Monkeys
(09/11/05) - Things I Have Juggled
(09/02/05) - pJ: An Interview
(08/30/05) - Katrina
(08/23/05) - Republicans Think
(08/20/05) - An Open Letter to Hidden Tracks
(08/19/05) - An Inspirational Story
(08/11/05) - Question Everything 101
(08/07/05) - Fairy Tales for Jerks
(08/06/05) - I'm So Drunk...
(08/03/05) - I Hate Summer
(07/29/05) - Visual Tour
(07/28/05) - Minor Absurdity
(07/19/05) - Half Empty Boxes
(07/17/05) - (To/Two/Too) Different People
(07/14/05) - So here's the Deal
(07/10/05) - Requirements
(07/09/05) - Responsibility
(07/03/05) - Did you know? (Sunday Funnies)
(07/01/05) - A Parting Mint
(06/27/05) - And What Have We Learned?
(06/25/05) - Harry Potter and the Rampant Spoilers
(06/23/05) - Invention Thursday
(06/18/05) - Bio Logic
(06/17/05) - Random Hotel Thoughts
(06/15/05) - Burny Doubt
(06/11/05) - Packing Tips for the OCD
(06/06/05) - Galactic Press Releases
(05/31/05) - Monsters of Gnat's Other Blade
(05/28/05) - Devious DVD Decisions
(05/22/05) - Obligatory Melancholy
(05/18/05) - I need a story today...
(05/14/05) - The Scariest Movie Ever
(05/11/05) - Flower Filler
(05/09/05) - Required Reading: OOTS!
(05/07/05) - Go. Hunt. Whack off?
(05/04/05) - Tired Poetry
(05/01/05) - the colors of 6:53pm
(04/23/05) - Futility and Fulfillment
(04/21/05) - p_W: A Professional Dialogue
(04/16/05) - My Fruity Flava
(04/14/05) - The Night Before The Morning After
(04/10/05) - Things I Wondered About Today
(04/06/05) - If I have to explain, it's not funny
(04/01/05) - April Fucking Fools
(03/27/05) - Happy Zombie Savior Day!
(03/20/05) - Good Monkey, Bad Monkey
(03/17/05) - New Technology Advances for Civilization 4
(03/14/05) - Getting Fired for Fun and Profit
(03/08/05) - Falsification
(03/02/05) - An Honor Just to be Nominated
(02/27/05) - Oscar Thoughts
(02/21/05) - Hunter S. Thompson Memorial
(02/18/05) - Language Corner: Swearing
(02/14/05) - V-Day Pussy
(02/12/05) - More Pre-Valentine's Spite
(02/08/05) - Sexy CD Secrets
(02/03/05) - pyre's letters to Cupid
(01/30/05) - Troop Support
(01/25/05) - Word Association
(01/20/05) - An Unpleasant Day
(01/16/05) - Sea Donkey for Two
(01/13/05) - Shek is a Total Bastard
(01/06/05) - The New Job
(01/03/05) - Tasty
(01/01/05) - The Calendar of Progress and Shame
(12/29/04) - Condom-binations
(12/23/04) - Wrapping
(12/20/04) - Wait for It...
(12/17/04) - Dissection of the Mayorwolf
(12/13/04) - The Life and Times of Charles Billingsworth
(12/05/04) - Titles I have Claimed or Been Given
(12/01/04) - Two Returns (Net and Work)
(11/12/04) - As Promised, Sex
(11/03/04) - Election Redux and the End of Politics
(11/01/04) - 27
(10/29/04) - Wish List
(10/22/04) - Old Jokes
(10/20/04) - Vulnerabilities
(10/14/04) - The DM's ABCs
(10/08/04) - Shockingly Honest's Greatest Hits
(10/03/04) - Conduhleezza
(10/01/04) - Extended Costume Planning
(09/28/04) - Bachelor Cooking 101
(09/22/04) - Procrastination Time Again
(09/13/04) - Conversation with Ty, Age 3
(08/22/04) - Other Worlds
(08/02/04) - Most Romantic Thing Ever!
(07/26/04) - Never pC: Another Conversation
(07/22/04) - pL pT, Two Conversations
(07/15/04) - Educational Games Suck
(07/13/04) - Superhero pyre
(06/21/04) - Routines
(05/20/04) - Discovered in an Old Notebook
(05/17/04) - Tp your house: A Conversation
(05/08/04) - Obscenity
(o4/27/04) - Fun with font colors
(04/21/04) - Personality Test!
(04/11/04) - Sooooo... Easter.
(04/09/04) - Only Funny if You've Played Civ 3
(04/01/04) - No Foolin'
(03/26/04) - What do YOU do?
(03/17/04) - The Quiet Ones
(03/11/04) - Cycles and Addiction
(03/07/04) - Hallelujah
(03/01/04) - Zombie Identification Skills
(02/24/04) - De Value Judge Mentality
(02/22/04) - Upsides
(02/17/04) - Guest Week Redux
(02/14/04) - Valentine's Morning
(02/13/04) - Guest Week! 5: Troll T. Trull
(02/12/04) - Guest Week? 4: Welbus Dizau
(02/11/04) - Guest Week? 3: Eljay
(02/10/04) - Guest Week? 2: Muddro Smith
(02/09/04) - Guest Week? 1: The Red Devil
(02/08/04) - Uncertain Futures
(02/07/04) - Beauty for the Day
(02/04/04) - This Isn't About Me
(02/03/04) - Crapulent
(01/31/04) - MC Fragment : Conversation Bits
(01/29/04) - Monkeys Wreak Havoc in India
(01/27/04) - The Issues: Drugs
(01/26/04) - Apprehension
(01/20/04) - Stuffing Guidlines
(01/12/04) - Waiting, Composure
(01/11/04) - Melancholy
(01/06/04) - Daywalker
(01/03/04) - The Difference Being?
(01/02/04) - Bio Illogical
(01/01/04) - Starting off on the Left Foot
(12/10/03) - Sometimes. I just don't know
(12/08/03) - Afterthoughts
(11/24/03) - News from JC
(11/18/03) - Azure and Spherical
(11/15/03) - Growing, Pained
(11/07/03) - Conundrum
(10/08/03) - Career Arc
(09/11/03) - Status Report
(09/07/03) - 2 + 2 = One Bajillion
(09/02/03) - Well, Crap.
(07/22/03) - So, uh, How's it going?
(07/06/03) - Leadersheep, Day One
(07/01/03) - The Dating Gauntlet
(06/29/03) - Genesys
(06/25/03) - My God, THE POWER!
(06/20/03) - Quarantined
(06/19/03) - Could Be Worse
(06/17/03) - Hypchondriacs shouldn't travel.
(06/12/03) - Cravings
(06/10/03) - Triumphant Return
(05/12/03) - MONKEYS! No really, damnit, MONKEYS!
(05/09/03) - Getting to Work
(05/06/03) - Speaking of Service
(05/05/03) - Five Stars
(05/04/03) - Out on the Town
(04/30/03) - How's the Water?
(04/29/03) - So... India
(04/28/03) - Flight Attentiveness
(04/27/03) - Deportation to India
(04/16/03) - Guest Rant: Geek Chic
(04/13/03) - Story of My (hair's) Life
(04/07/03) - Poop too much?
(04/05/03) - Impeachment
(04/01/03) - My Laughter Turns to Tears
(03/30/03) - How am I doing?
(03/19/03) - War and Politics Again (sigh)
(03/11/03) - Etymology
(03/06/03) - Idiot
(02/26/03) - See you all later
(02/23/03) - Height x Length = Area
(02/19/03) - Hopefully
(02/14/03) - Valentine's Duh
(02/13/03) - WWJD?
(02/09/03) - Stephen Lynch
(02/08/03) - Electroshock Therapy
(02/04/03) - 19 Boring Hours
(02/02/03) - I am not a smart man.
(01/31/03) - Inlaws.
(01/27/03) - It's About Time-Snow!
(01/25/03) - U|U|U|U|u
(01/20/03) - Work Foolishness
(01/18/03) - What's new and exciting?
(01/12/03) - Midwestern Morning
(01/09/03) - Verbal Diffusion
(01/05/03) - Full Circle
(01/03/03) - Spite and Pessimism
(01/01/03) - Oddly Appropriate.
(12/31/02) - Transition
(12/28/02) - Productive use of Time
(12/22/02) - Reversal
(12/16/02) - Waking Dreams
(12/12/02) - Headlights
(12/08/02) - Metaphoric Wheels
(12/03/02) - Lessons Learned From NapyUpHiWeMo
(12/02/02) - The Irony of this is staggering.
(11/30/02) - Climax
(11/29/02) - A Time for Family (by my mom)
(11/28/02) - Things to be Thankful For
(11/27/02) - Holiday Gift Ideas
(11/26/02) - Temptations to Failure
(11/25/02) - See also: "Repeatedly."
(11/24/02) - Corpus Callosum
(11/23/02) - Science Fantasy
(11/22/02) - 2 Hours, 43 Minutes
(11/21/02) - Language Corner #3
(11/20/02) - $23.64
(11/19/02) - The System is Down
(11/18/02) - Calling in SICK
(11/17/02) - Tell me a story...
(11/16/02) - Telemarketting Revenge
(11/15/02) - High Water Mark
(11/14/02) - Fu Manchu
(11/13/02) - Coming True
(11/12/02) - TLOTRTFOTRSEDVDE
(11/11/02) - He's So Dreeeamy!
(11/10/02) - Kodama Cosplay
(11/09/02) - Goals in Life
(11/08/02) - Gnat's Other Prologue
(11/07/02) - Politics: the return of procrastination
(11/06/02) - Pattern Recognition
(11/05/02) - This Weekend
(11/04/02) - Gnu's World Report
(11/03/02) - A Limerick
(11/02/02) - Not the Target Audience
(11/01/02) - Birthday Musings
(10/31/02) - Halloween Advice
(10/26/02) - (There's really a reason.)
(10/22/02) - November
(10/03/02) - Dressed in Black and White
(09/27/02) - It's worth more, really.
(09/24/02) - Neunundneunzig Schwarze Ballone
(09/11/02) - Rememberance
(08/22/02) - Appreciation
(08/17/02) - Mediocrity
(08/10/02) - From KIP!
(07/30/02) - Shhhhhh...
(07/06/02) - Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
(06/23/02) - Assorted Sundries
(06/14/02) - Missing Excuses
(06/04/02) - Commitment and Fullfillment
(05/28/02) - Twelve Jars
(05/25/02) - Super Monkey Ball
(05/20/02) - Timeline
(05/19/02) - Attack of the Grossly Inaccurate Title
(05/16/02) - Go!
(05/13/02) - Thank you, Captain Obvious
(05/12/02) - Mother's Day Post
(05/11/02) - Military Confession
(05/07/02) - Scourge
(05/06/02) - Foreshadowing
(05/04/02) - With Great Movies Comes Great Responsibility
(05/02/02) - That's Enough Already
(05/01/02) - Behind the Door
(04/29/02) - More Lazy Than That
(04/28/02) - Exposed Thought
(04/26/02) - I write updates without an autosave
(04/20/02) - Appee Burfdae
(04/18/02) - Some Hints
(04/10/02) - Personal Information (Updated)
(04/09/02) - War on Ambiguity
(04/08/02) - Brand Loyalty
(04/07/02) - Dredged Up Ramblings
(04/06/02) - Historic Comics
(04/02/02) - Absurd
(03/24/02) - 1/2
(03/21/02) - Deterrent
(03/16/02) - Cosmonaut Troll
(03/13/02) - Naughty
(03/10/02) - Walken Around
(03/06/02) - Monday
(03/02/02) - Kip & Zippy
(03/01/01) - Dynamic Problem Solving
(02/24/02) - Conversational Inertia
(02/22/02) - Gas Pimpin'
(02/20/02) - Evil Inc.
(02/19/02) - Lazy Bastards Anonymous
(02/04/02) - ...pation!
(01/31/02) - Alas, Poor Couch
(01/26/02) - So Very Tired
(01/19/02) - Layers of not having a life.
(01/10/02) - Sorry, Ladies.
(01/08/02) - Advice for the Shy Guys
(01/04/02) - Game-Review Monkey
(01/03/02) - Happy God-Damned New Year
(12/22/01) - Home for the Holidays
(12/19/01) - Nostalgia, one year ago.
(12/17/01) - Middle Earth and Common Ground
(12/16/01) - Bacon Epipheny
(12/12/01) - This Morning
(12/11/01) - Fairly Blasphemous
(12/09/01) - Antici...
(12/03/01) - Psychedelic Horsey
(12/02/01) - More secrets to happiness
(12/01/01) - Hash browns
(11/30/01) - Angsty Poem
(11/27/01) - Pro Wrestling is neither fake nor gay
(11/20/01) - Brick of Turkey Meat
(11/14/01) - In Denial
(11/09/01) - Nice Molars
(11/05/01) - Harry Potter and the Writer's Block
(11/01/01) - Twenty-Four
(10/25/01) - Sold-Out Legos
(10/17/01) - Investment Planning
(10/12/01) - Decision-Making Skills
(10/09/01) - I Have No Clue
(10/04/01) - Some Junk
(09/24/01) - Profound Quote
(09/20/01) - On Cowardace
(09/18/01) - Tao Te Ching, Simplified
(09/13/01) - Airline Security
(09/11/01) - Holy Crap
(09/04/01) - Yerg.
(08/23/01) - Gone.
(08/15/01) - Efficiency
(08/13/01) - Opportune Follow Uppity
(08/12/01) - Self-Explanatory
(08/10/01) - Morning Commute Home
(08/09/01) - Financial Responsibility
(08/05/01) - Opportunity
(07/29/01) - Have you ever...?
(07/25/01) - Bob Kolody vs Coca-Cola
(07/24/01) - The Other Kind of Dogfood
(07/20/01) - Thought Breakdown
(07/19/01) - Convictions
(07/18/01) - Nascar Validation
(07/15/01) - Look Ra, No Ads
(07/10/01) - Good Morning
(06/26/01) - TILT
(06/25/01) - Get Rich Quik. (Strawberry)
(06/22/01) - Mid-Afternoon Existentialism
(06/19/01) - Something in the Rain
(06/09/01) - Philisophical Classification
(06/07/01) - A Work of Art
(06/05/01) - Temporarily Subnormal
(05/30/01) - Reality TV
(05/25/01) - The Monkey Plan (don't copy me!)
(05/24/01) - Monkey Week Explained!
(05/22/01) - Monkey Week day 3
(05/21/01) - Monkey Week day 2
(05/20/01) - Monkey Week Begins!
(05/19/01) - Insightful SocieoPolitical Commentary
(05/15/01) - Online Gaming Etiquette
(05/14/01) - Broken.
(05/09/01) - Tapped Out (I'm not talking about MtG, damnit!)
(05/03/01) - Hasslehoff Really Said This
(05/01/01) - How to Order Meat
(04/30/01) - Secrets of Stealth
(04/26/01) - The Touching Hopes and Dreams of a Late Bloomer
(04/24/01) - Anti-Inhalation
(04/16/01) - Sociology Experiment
(04/15/01) - Easter Celebration and Melanin
(04/14/01) - Bits and Pieces, Miscellany
(04/13/01) - Reading the Classifieds
(04/08/01) - Look More Straight
(03/27/01) - Absence.
(03/26/01) - Definitive Answer to an Eternal Yet Stupid Question
(03/22/01) - Truth, pertaining to expectations
(03/20/01) - Tell me a Story...
(03/16/01) - Fan Mail, Re: Troll Semen
(03/15/01) - Maturity
(03/13/01) - Girl Scout Cookies
(03/11/01) - An Accomplishment
(03/10/01) - Connectivity Whining
(03/09/01) - Petty
(03/06/01) - Baby Pictures
(03/05/01) - Pixellation
(03/02/01) - Exploring what?
(02/28/01) - Customer Service
(02/24/01) - The Worst
(02/22/01) - A p Juvenility: a conversation
(02/21/01) - Polygraph Test
(02/20/01) - Bill Hicks was right again.
(02/19/01) - A Lack of Eye Lasers
(02/13/01) - Valentine's Day Massacre
(02/11/01) - Collect and Trade
(02/05/01) - It was somewhere around here that I lost all sense of what I'm talking about.
(02/02/01) - Retirement Speech
(01/31/01) - CYBERNETIC TELEPATH MONKEYS
(01/26/01) - Disappointment
(01/23/01) - Foreboding
(01/18/01) - Shelf of Booze
(01/17/01) - leads to January 18th
(01/16/01) - The 'B' Stands for Ballistic
(01/14/01) - Missing Pieces
(01/13/01) - Serious Commentary on Internet Porn
(01/11/01) - A Fine Line
(01/09/01) - Continued Brevity
(01/08/01) - Yes, I've been lonely
(01/07/01) - Retro 1920's
(01/04/01) - I like K.Thor
(01/03/01) - Degredation on Many Levels
(12/30/00) - This Should Have A Long Title
(12/28/00) - Polite Refusal
(12/27/00) - Post Holiday Cheer
(12/20/00) - Hardware/Software
(12/19/00) - Spitefully Happy
(12/18/00) - If you don't know, I'm still not telling you.
(12/17/00) - I got bored.
(12/15/00) - Redirection
(12/13/00) - Public Interest
(12/11/00) - Where do you draw the lines?
(12/08/00) - Tribbles and Shits, Miscellany
(12/05/00) - Alpha Male. (Beware: It's a poem)
(12/02/00) - Personal Information. I'm serious.
(11/30/00) - Textbook and Essay Titles
(11/27/00) - I'm not dead.
(11/23/00) - I might be dead.
(11/22/00) - Tidbits and Clips, Miscellany
(11/21/00) - Lust for a Connection
(11/16/00) - Get in your p J's: More Conversation
(11/15/00) - Fundamentalists and Videogames
(11/14/00) - Useful Icq message to send people
(11/12/00) - Call the Radio Station and Say These.
(11/10/00) - Just Plugging the Forums
(11/08/00) - I'll announce my candidacy soon.
(11/07/00) - Last Minute Voting Guide
(11/06/00) - A Short Play (based on a true story)
(11/03/00) - I Am Not.
(11/01/00) - Funniest Thing Ever
(10/31/00) - Time and Money?
(10/29/00) - Inside Cover of my Webpage
(10/26/00) - Politically Correction
(10/24/00) - If I Had a Band
(10/22/00) - More AND Less
(10/21/00) - Festerday's Yun in Roonerspisms
(10/20/00) - Feelings, Everything More Than Feelings
(10/19/00) - Axioms
(10/18/00) - Things I thought I was going to have to say at work yesterday
(10/16/00) - Talking about Underwear
(10/14/00) - Still More Novel Exerpt
(10/13/00) - Another Novel Exerpt
(10/12/00) - Novel Exerpt
(10/10/00) - The Path to Wisdom
(10/06/00) - Political Commentary and a Bad Pun
(10/05/00) - Efficiency Goals
(10/03/00) - My Job is Not Funny
(10/02/00) - No, More Pathetic Than That
(09/30/00) - Linking to Cartoons
(09/29/00) - Too Unfunny Even for The Mushroom
(09/27/00) - Remedial Language Corner
(09/26/00) - Another Fable
(09/25/00) - Meet the Language Corner Author
(09/22/00) - Language Corner #2
(09/21/00) - Language Corner #1
(09/20/00) - 7th Prophecy
(09/19/00) - I Must Be Overhearing Things
(09/18/00) - Conceptual Shackles
(09/17/00) - Free Association
(09/16/00) - Pig In A Pig
(09/15/00) - Cthu-Bert
(09/14/00) - Cthubism
(09/13/00) - Just Checking
(09/12/00) - Fantasy, Reality, and Gaming
(09/11/00) - My Apartment Complex
(09/08/00) - Poetry Corner: Haiku
(09/07/00) - Three Unrelated Topics
(09/05/00) - Naughty, Lazy Monkeys
(09/02/00) - T-Shirt
(09/01/00) - 48% Slut
(08/31/00) - A Little Taoism
(08/30/00) - There is Only This Moment
(08/28/00) - Taste Treat
(08/27/00) - When I Officially Gave Up
(08/25/00) - .........Dumbass
(08/22/00) - Have You Ever? Um, Hypothetically.
(08/18/00) - Miscellanious Angst and Such
(08/15/00) - Foreshadowing
(08/14/00) - More Monkey Picture
(08/12/00) - Are you ready to ROCK?!
(08/10/00) - My Horoscope
(08/09/00) - I don't think this one's really an update.
(08/07/00) - Vital!
(08/06/00) - Perenial Existentialism
(08/03/00) - A Fable.
(07/31/00) - Prioritize
(07/27/00) - Moving
(07/24/00) - Not Quite Lying
(07/21/00) - Verbosely Anti-Social
(07/19/00) - My Sister on Abstinance (rimshot)
(07/18/00) - Things That Give Me the Creeps
(07/16/00) - Kthor Fancomic #1
(07/14/00) - Not Very pC: Another Conversation
(07/13/00) - Remains of Tom Lehrer
(07/12/00) - This is Lame
(07/11/00) - Childhood. (picture)
(07/10/00) - Just Say No to Abstinence
(07/05/00) - Miscellany
(07/04/00) - Independence Day
(07/02/00) - Sometimes I hate myself.
(07/01/00) - GW Mail-Order Saga
(06/29/00) - Time Dissappears
(06/27/00) - Um, what title?
(06/26/00) - Bilge Association of America
(06/25/00) - Not-Answering Machines
(06/23/00) - April Arbuckle is a Retard
(06/21/00) - This has nothing whatsoever to do with Walei Corporation.
(06/20/00) - - - - - Hesitation
(06/19/00) - Belated Random Thoughts
(06/18/00) - Why I Make a Lousy Sellout
(06/17/00) - The Day of the TWEEZERS!
(06/16/00) - Satan/Hasslehoff Connection
(06/15/00) - A Bit of Hatred
(06/14/00) - Comparison 101
(06/13/00) - Different Work
(06/12/00) - Ia! Ia!
(06/11/00) - You don't have a life.
(06/10/00) - DonkeyDonkeyDonkeyRacecar!
(06/08/00) - Song Responses
(06/07/00) - Retroactive
(06/06/00) - Statistics
(06/05/00) - Early Attempt at Excuses
(06/04/00) - My Admission
(06/03/00) - NoooOOO FUN!
(06/02/00) - A really good story. Really.
(06/01/00) - Sorting Department Fears
(05/31/00) - Invoke Often
(05/30/00) - The finer things in life.
(05/29/00) - Speeding
(05/26/00) - LAN Party Silliness
(05/25/00) - Failed Slogans
(05/24/00) - Where Credit is Due
(05/23/00) - Where I Say I'll Do Some Things. Look Months Later for When They Actually Get Done.
(05/22/00) - Official Public Launch
(05/19/00) - Schemes and Maniacal Laughter
(05/18/00) - Pink Ass Monkey, The Babboon Critic
(05/17/00) - Urine and Corporate Life
(05/16/00) - Life Comparison
(05/15/00) - Banner Hatred (This actually worked, you know.)
(05/14/00) - Perenial Job Hunt Whining
(05/13/00) - Troll Semen
(05/12/00) - Purity Score Lowering Station
(05/11/00) - Kick out the p A: a conversation
(05/10/00) - I'm Lying Write Now
(05/09/00) - Free Blather
(05/08/00) - 1st Prophecy
(05/07/00) - Things To Do List
(05/06/00) - Carpal Addiction Syndrome
(05/05/00) - Failing Ahead of Schedule
(05/03/00) - Optimistic Beginnings

And even some prehistoric writings: