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There’s something subversive about writing without concern for marketability or scale. Blogs are spaces   where we can think, connect with each other, and play without oversight from corporations. Blogging prioritizes ourselves and our own concerns.  Your blog’s true power is that it unlocks *your* power. ~ Tracy Durnell

All things commonly thought to be strange and all things strangely thought to be common are the purview of Flippism is the Key.

Feel free to take your mental shoes off and rummage barefoot through the fertile fields of FLIPPIST FILOSOPHY. Posts may (or may not) be fiction or satire or whimsy,please don’t take everything dead seriously, it is not scripture. All texts, drawings, videos, photographs, and illustrations are copyrighted creations, excepting reviews or otherwise credited.

Comments are encouraged but spam and/or abuse will be deleted at the discretion of site administrator. FITK is not an open forum.

The search box (in upper left corner) can help discover what ‘The Professor’ has to say about a subject—there are 4000+ posts! FITK generally posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Click on images (2017 or later or black-bordered) to embiggen. Check out the sidebar link ‘Dogma’ for a greatest hits list of memorable FITK posts.

FITK contains FOUR COMPLETE serialized novels: Window Weather (2012), The Matriarchy (2014-2016), The Reader (2017), and The Inheritance (2020). A memoir, Search For a Dancer, was published in 2023. Links to these and other miscellaneous writings are in the sidebar under the heading Fiction.

Professor Batty’s persona and the Flippism is the Key title was inspired by the Carl Barks comic Flip Decision, originally published in Walt Disney Stories and Comics™, #149. No endorsement or relationship to The Walt Disney Company™ exists nor is any such relationship implied. FITK is not affiliated with House of Cards, either.

Guest contributors:

Comica is a multifaceted writer, a language scholar (yes, she has a degree!) and all-around free spirit. Active from 2004-2006.

ECS is an expatriate now living in Norway, re-posts here are from her Icelandic blog. Featured 2016.

Little Miss Loopy, is an Icelandic blog pioneer who was a direct inspiration for FITK. Active here 2004-2006.

RS is an internet educator residing in India, posting on FITK 2005-2007.

Sharon Spotbottom is all things to all things and nothing if she is anything. Created by Karen Heathwood, Sharon was featured 2008-2012 and re-appears on FITK from time to time.

Direct all email communications to dktrfz@gmail.com

Legal disclaimers: Flippism is the Key does not track or otherwise "follow" visitors. Blogger (owned by Google since 2004) does track them but in 20+ years I have never experienced a negative consequence from this, although Google is inscrutable in its machinations. This blog is strictly for educational, artistic and/or amusement purposes. Any person, or any duly appointed representative thereof, who is mentioned or linked in this blog may petition for an immediate removal of any reference to aforesaid persons. The blog post author(s) may at any time alter, delete or otherwise change the content of posts at any time without notice or explanation. AI-generated content will be duly noted as such. Flippism is the Key is not affiliated with any commercial, religious or political organization. No money or other tangible asset has ever been received for the mention of or linking to any product or service. All posts are the copyrighted property of their respective contributors.

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