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1. AI Alien Math™

   A mathematical model for creative-project proliferation, featuring what-ifs, AI conversations, shower inspiration, and an unbounded sleep term.

2. Aileen Flynn

   Aileen Flynn is the keyboard player and a singer in Sisters Erie. The oldest of the four Flynn sisters, she is from Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland, and was twenty-five during the band's 2013 U.S. tour. Her calm delivery, understated...

3. Arcana University

   Arcana University is a university in Silver Hollow, Vermont, serving students from different worlds and supernatural traditions. It brings the study of magic and other abilities together with conventional academic subjects. The university...

4. Atypical Alchemist

   Atypical Alchemist is Clint Zehner's collection and website about science, history, alchemy, and the things that make him want to know more. It began with the limits on travel around the COVID period and grew into a wall of historical...

5. Beat the Sunrise

   Beat the Sunrise is an album by Sisters Erie, released in 2016. Its original material moves between the band's family humor, drinking songs, folklore, and quieter accounts of love and home. The four sisters' different personalities give...

6. Big Gay Werewolves

   Mountains, forests, nightclubs, and upscale retail all have their place in accounts of these much-sought-after lycanthropes.

7. A Bounty of Dad Jokes

   The Hamilton Hurricane meets a mad scientist whose inventions are considerably more restful than his jokes.

8. Building SistersErie.com

   Character development, visual identity, front-end work, and original music turn a band website into a substantial creative project.

9. Building Zwikipedia

   I wanted a place where an article about something I had made could be as long as it needed to be. Some projects need a paragraph. Others have a story involving a website, a physical object, an experiment with AI, and several occasions...

10. Carbs of the Huge Manatee

    Carbs of the Huge Manatee, or CHM, began as Clint Zehner's series of Unauthorized Expansions for Cards Against Humanity. He created nine expansions of roughly a hundred cards each, sold them through Amazon, and came close to placing an...

11. The Castles of Ireland

    The Castles of Ireland, also known as Another Feckin' Castle or AFC, is an original song by Sisters Erie. Written by Ryanne Flynn and Mary Flynn, arranged by the four sisters, and led by Ryanne, it closes the band's debut EP, The Coming...

12. Clint’s Principles of Destruction

    Twelve principles describing the predictable and irrepressible multiplication of creative projects, plus the conservation law that governs them.

13. ClintZehner.com

    A broad portfolio records the designs, experiments, and self-imposed briefs behind a growing collection of projects.

14. The Coming Storm (EP)

    Four lead voices, two familiar covers, and two originals introduce Sisters Erie’s range on their self-produced debut EP.

15. Creating Arcana University

    An early AI experiment grew into a university with very ordinary website needs and some unusually complicated students.

16. Creating Beat the Sunrise

    I had intended to make a live album of songs the Sisters Erie would play. Then I ran into the problem of getting the music tools to make the covers I wanted. Meanwhile, writing original songs was turning out to be a lot of fun.

17. Creating Big Gay Werewolves

    A film stinger became a rainbow-backed shirt, a small website, and an opportunity for several more design jokes.

18. Creating Running Underhill

    An attempted Kate Bush cover, a homemade book of faerie folklore, and four unexpected recordings led to an original Sisters Erie song.

19. Creating Sisters Erie

    A tour-shirt design grew into a detailed band history, four distinct sisters, and a growing collection of original music.

20. Crossroads

    Crossroads is a universe where different worlds meet and different kinds of magic work alongside one another.

21. Dark Daze

    An ordinary Thursday becomes a card game about energy, success, and the people who can complicate both.

22. Days Since Clint Conceived of a New Project

    An ambitious counter attempting to measure the interval between newly conceived projects, despite severe observer-effect problems.

23. The Demon Accords

    John Conroe’s urban-fantasy series supplies the original people and places behind several of Clint’s expanding projects.

24. Gael Flynn

    Gael Flynn is the fiddle player and one of the principal lead singers in Sisters Erie. The second-youngest of the four Flynn sisters, she is from Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland. Her conspicuously bright red hair makes her the family's...