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New Year's Eve 1999

New Year's Eve 1999

Will New Year's Eve 1999 ring in a new millennium? Or the end of the world?

2023

Stories

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MuddyUm

A Lazy Person’s Guide to Finding Purpose in the Universe

And I stepped right into it

4 min read5 days ago

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English: Plaque seen on the stucco, roadside facade of a house in rue Pierre-d’Aspelt in Aspelt, Luxembourg. Français : Plaque vue sur la façade côté rue à Aspelt, rue Pierre-d’Aspelt, Luxembourg.Picture by Cayambe, October 2015

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An Excerpt from “Mother Fracking Earth Day”

The latest “Holidazed” novel by Gregg SAPP

10 min readApr 21, 2024

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An Excerpt from “Mother Fracking Earth Day”

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No Crime in Rhymin’

Sonnet to Watching TV

Another day’s haunting travail exceeds frayed nerve expanses as inner drift yearns …

1 min readApr 3, 2024

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An old Phillips black and white television set next to a doll

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MuddyUm

Through the Looking Glass and Into the Giant Screen TV

Welcome to the ecumenical mega church of the internet

4 min readApr 1, 2024

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Black and white image of woman frustrated over husband mindlessly viewing television

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MuddyUm

Sticks and Stones May Break Bones but Free Speech Hurts Like Hell

So long as you don’t put it into writing

4 min readMar 22, 2024

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World War Two era poster from the Office of War Information. An image a parrot reads, “Careless Talks Doesn’t Mean Free Speech.”

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Valentine Day in the Franklin County Jail

(an excerpt from “Murder by Valentine Candy,” by Gregg SAPP — Evolved Publishing, 2021.)

7 min readFeb 14, 2024

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Valentine Day in the Franklin County Jail

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No Crime in Rhymin’

Sonnet to My Retirement

Precious hours once sold for fickle service, with blithe promises of perks or passions, vanish over years of lapsed observance, as…

1 min readFeb 14, 2024

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black and white photograph from 1925 depicting a group of mostly men in suits gathered at a retirement ceremony

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in
MuddyUm

On Conspiracy Theories and Why Bad Stuff Happens

But it’s more fun to make stuff up

4 min readFeb 10, 2024

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Cartoon image of a smiling man in a suit drinking a glass of conspiracy Kool-Aid

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MuddyUm

Lamentations and Ruminations of a Superhero Wannabe

Don’t give up your day job.

5 min readJan 22, 2024

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Gangway for superhero Captail Marvel in a red suit with a white cape and lightning strike, from Whiz Comics

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in
MuddyUm

An Elegy to White Male Privilege by a Repentant Boomer

But the torch we’re passing is a stick of dynamite

4 min readJan 11, 2024

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A black and white photograph of a the rector of Exeter College in academic regalia, 1883

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sappgregg

sappgregg

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Gregg Sapp, an expatriate Ohioan, is an award winning author of the “Holidazed” satires, each of which is set in Ohio and centered around a different holiday.

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