Back in September I posted “Colorless Sneer”, an original rap song over a sampled backtrack. I’ve written raps or rap segments before, so I can’t claim it’s my first rap song, but nevertheless there was something different about it.

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I wanted to like Arrival. I really did. I knew the actual linguistics aspect of it was going to be minimal, but even so I want more of these movies, the science fiction that isn’t just “war in space” given proper treatment on the big screen.

But as you can infer from that first paragraph, I just didn’t find it very good.

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The sun was well set by the time Matthew made it back to his apartment building. With Wednesday done, the week was more than half over, then the weekend, and then Pat would come home. Maybe by then things would be back—

Matthew stopped a few paces from the lobby door, feeling a prickle on his back. Something about this felt familiar…

With mixed feelings of trepidation and resignation, he turned around and stepped back out to…

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