Lance R. Fletcher

Freelance reporter, nature writer, and culture vulture. Fun fact enthusiast.
I.W.W. Freelance Journalists Union, member National Book Critics Circle, ACES.

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Main/what I do here: LanceDoesTheThing

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Same me, more goblin energy.

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What the Hell is Farm Aid? | Explainer

"Bob Dylan once said "Wouldn't it be great if we did something for our own farmers right here in America?”

That’s not exactly what happened."

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REVIEW | Sorceress (1982)

"In the 80s, we had wrestlers telling kids to eat their vitamins, we had a cowboy president (the first off the D-list to prance into the Oval Office), and we were talking about lasers to protect us from the Communists.

Not much changed."

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Texas Railroad Commission Creeps Closer to Big New Rules on Oilfield Waste

The Texas RRC announced a draft rule during its Aug. 15 meeting.
The new rule stands to revise rules for managing oil and gas waste for the first time in 40 years.

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A Short-Ish History of the Pulps

"We hear all the time about how pulps are a dead form. There are no pulp heroes anymore — The world moved on! There’s no place for those kinds of stories anymore.

That, my friends, is abject horseshit.

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REVIEW | Surf Ninjas (1993)

Some movies are made for the drive-in. Others have the drive-in thrust upon them. If it has Rob Schneider on screen for more than a few seconds — it’s probably one of the latter.

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FAR AFIELD | Ancient Civilizations Were Already Screwing Up the Environment

UPenn researchers, part of the ArchaeoGLOBE project, found that ancient humans used land in ways that weren’t quite “leave-no-trace.”

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An invasive species of cloned jellyfish are spreading like, well, jellyfish clones.

“There is a thin semantic line separating weird and beautiful, and that line is covered in jellyfish.”
— Welcome to Nightvale

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TX Railroad Commission Creeps Closer to Big New Rules on Oilfield Waste

"According to the RRC, the sweeping overhaul puts groundwater protection front and center. It also adapts historical rules to new technological advances in the energy industry."

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"A jury trial opening in Austin, Texas, on Monday will seek to hold Trump supporters accountable for allegedly ambushing a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign bus on the state’s main highway in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election."

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"There was a time in America that you knew who grew your food...

Gen Z can bring back the American Dream, if we choose to help them do so. AgriLife is getting us off to a good start."

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