The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College

St. Remedius Medical College: “Signs, Portents, and Blatant Advertising”

When the Sigils And Guardians Remember, Even When The Corporate World Doesn’t (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Most of St. Remedius Medical College’s thaumaturgy and applied mysticism majors, after passing their Zwinge Foundation certifications, famously went on to long careers in corporate magic, and most stayed close to St. Remedius for their entire careers. It wasn’t because of college nostalgia or a desperate fear of…

When the Kitties Don’t Sleep, Nobody Sleeps Oh, life is cruel for the 10-Kilo Lint-Covered Breast Implant. Among other things, he’s now down to about 8 kilograms, mostly due to his extensive exercise regime. While other cats get to lounge around, taking in the sights outside and occasionally chittering at a squirrel, poor Parker gets a workout. Mostly it’s a workout of his growling gland, because that part of him…

One Reason Why St. Remedius Students Kept Coming Back (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The first week of the summer semester at St. Remedius Medical College always hit differently for the students who returned home for the summer versus those who stayed on campus or worked intern slots with Dallas industries. Without fail, those who spent the summer away from campus gradually looked at the…

Dallas’s Greatest Horror Convention Gets An Unexpected Visitor (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular updates of how the sausage…

How Diplomacy Between Humanity and Cretaceous Saurians Involved Exactly The Right Challenge (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A major point to be considered in any discussion of the Harkun and their presence in the greater Dallas, Texas area is that no other nonhuman demographic has the same relationship with the majority modern-human population. The residents of the Denisovian Embassy, aside from football games, tend to…

Celebrating What Would Have Been The End of The St. Remedius School Year (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) At any other time, the end of May would have marked the end of the school year at St. Remedius Medical College. Graduation ceremonies, dorm cleanouts, promises to stay in touch, and offers to hang out over the summer. This being St. Remedius, many of the students…

The Day The Universe Changed and The Beginnings of the Quantum War (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) On one thing, the world’s outstanding authorities agree: Something Happened. When it happened, nobody is sure. How it happened, nobody is sure. That event was what started the continuum-spanning conflagration known as the Quantum War, or maybe it was what started it. Some attribute it to a weasel…

How St. Remedius Students Recovered From Finals (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Many institutes of higher learning have traditions at the end of the school year, particularly around finals. Whether Caltech’s Ditch Day or Southern Methodist University’s Running of the Coke Dealers, most involve releasing stress just before or just before the main rush of final exams. St. Remedius Medical College took the theme to…

When Premature Enlightenment Is In The Strangest Places (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) While the multiple layers of ciphers on the entire universe were well-known and sometimes understood by those with an interest in these matters, only surprisingly did that study lead to actual crime. The further surprise was the source: a series of burglaries of individual homes, record shops, and thrift stores through the…

The One Great Texas Growth Industry (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Compared to other places in the universe, Earth was relatively paltry in contemporary visitation from other intelligences. Back before anyone on Earth had a baseline for what constituted an “average” rate of visitation, experts of all sorts argued the reasons. Was it because intelligent life elsewhere was so rare, was it because intelligences had…

More Free Weirdness By Mail From St. Remedius (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular updates of how the sausage…

A Quick But Necessary Discussion About Bicycling In Dallas and Other Parts North Texas, Part 3 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at…

Whatever Happens To St. Remedius Surplus? (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) In addition to the detritus of exonormal research, one of the legacies of the disappearance of St. Remedius Medical College involved the intended end products. Even with the College’s disappearance, the greater Dallas area was loaded with toolboxes, repositories, accumulations, dumps, and armories of necessary, obvious, and opportunistic devices, mechanisms, collectives, manifestations, and echoes….

A New Option For St. Remedius Enthusiasts From the Comfort Of Your Own Device (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) And there we were, gazing over the edge of the crevasse, wondering if we’d have the chance to escape before it crawled out of the gap, when the phone rang… Oh,. Sorry. I’ll clean up the mess later. (I’ve put it away, Mother, I’ve put it…

A Quick But Necessary Discussion About Bicycling In Dallas and Other Parts North Texas, Part 1 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at…

The Ultimate St. Remedius First Date Experience (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Love knoweth not a specific location nor season, and the assembled students and faculty of St. Remedius Medical College never let a particular location dictate whether they felt the world move. However, when asked for perfect places to meet that perfect individual or colony, most agreed that the best places were the various…

The Saga of Las Colinas and Its Thaumaturgic Rebirth (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) One of the more complicated aspects of chronicling the effects of St. Remedius Medical College on the greater Dallas area, both before and after the College’s disappearance, involves the various artifacts of city development that might be misconstrued. Was the giant half-ruined castle atop a hill overlooking one of the local…

Everything Against Everythng, the Dallas Way (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) For various reasons related and unrelated to St. Remedius Medical College, the biology of the greater Dallas, Texas area has few parallels. Habitat shrinkage and destruction, industrial poisons and mutagens, authorized and unauthorized testing and disposal of experimental chemical and exotechnological wastes, thaumaturgic and psionic residues, and steady radioactive outgassing from the Trinity River…none…

The Dinner Theater Adaptation of War of the Gargantuas Continues It’s dawn. Two four-legged tumors settle in and find their favorite sleeping spots: one in my office, waiting for the sound of clacking keys and random curses under my breath. The other stumbles to his favorite windowsill, allowing him plenty of time to lounge while reporting on the perfidies of the local crows. For most of the day, all they…

What to Watch When Downtime Is Inevitable (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) It’s Friday night. Homework is done. Those students assigned to check on experiments or feed lab animals have a few hours before the tardigrades rip through the cage bars and run amok. The students at St. Remedius Medical College were no different from any other college student in the state of Texas after…

And so it begins.

The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College Of the many mysteries behind the famous/notorious educational institution known as the St. Remedius Medical College, the most enduring involves its recent destruction on an otherwise nondescript day in May. The annihilation of the entire campus was notable in that absolutely nobody was killed or even injured, and the only remaining trace of the college was a massive excavation just north of downtown…

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Rocketed from the dying planet Skaro as an infant, the individual known as “Paul Riddell” is a quantum probability that occasionally takes inspiration from Bell’s Theorem to manifest as a writer of fiction and nonfiction. The writer aspect manifested between 1989 and 2002, where, aside from a few relapses terminally regretted by everyone involved, the writer aspect was strangled in its bed and buried. Facets of that aspect are consolidated in the books Squashed Armadillocon (1993), Greasing the Pan: The “Best” of Paul T. Riddell (2009), and The Savage Pen of Onan: The “Best” of the Hell’s Half-Acre Herald (also 2009), available from fine thrift stores and composting bins everywhere. In 2002, the aspect changed upon contact with the indigenous carnivorous plants of Tallahassee, Florida (blame Jeff VanderMeer for this), ultimately leading to the creation and opening of the Texas Triffid Ranch, popularly described as “Dallas’s Pretty Much Only Carnivorous Plant Gallery,” which ran from 2015 to 2023. A massive increase in rent caused the Triffid Ranch to shut down in early 2023, with The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College starting on Substack in May 2024 before moving to the current location in 2025. Paul Riddell is currently not married, has no children other than a 10-kilo lint-covered breast implant that impersonates a cat, and currently deliberates on the individual so deserving of a severe karmic curb-stomping that s/he becomes executor of his literary estate.

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