Marium Parium

An Egyptian from Texas, living the CPA life, ex-liberal arts major, still writing bad poetry.

Onward To Sobriety

Marium Parium June 2, 2019

Sobriety gets weird sometimes.

Haze of Thunder

Marium Parium March 12, 2019

Why should staff feelings matter?

Outrage Porn for Bored Authors

Marium Parium March 1, 2019

Young Adult book Twitter is at it again.

On Wanting To Serve

Marium Parium December 5, 2018

Your lack of service does not make you a lesser citizen or unworthy of respect. Your...

Chris in reply to CJColucci on POETS Day! Things from William Carlos WilliamsFrom Spring and All (the book; the poem is really just I in that book, "The Red Wheelbarrow" is poem…
DensityDuck in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Maybe. Or maybe they'll vote to make those things illegal.
Jaybird on The Department of Good ThingsGary Tan is talking about California's attempt to force California's universities to water down math…
DensityDuck in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025(thank you for writing "counsel" and not "council" there, although in this case the latter might be…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025they're going to be very disappointed to learn that you do more stonework when you've been banned fr…
DensityDuck on The Department of Good Things"the federal bureaucracy decided to solve the problem by creating more federal bureaucracy. " They h…
Jaybird on The Department of Good ThingsSeems almost inappropriate for me to say that this was an awesome post. The whole "the purpose of a…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025A couple of co-workers made noises about joining the Freemasons (and one bugged me to join as well)…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Heh... but you'd probably be talking about Pope Baldwin not Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Only historians…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025As an American, I hear the name "Pierbattista Pizzaballa" and I hope that it's him because I want to…