LITERALLY Unbelievable: Adventures in Misreading
Recently, I’ve claimed schadenfreude as a winter sport. For those of us bound for hell, it’s a year-round activity, and unlike other winter sports the cold is but the occasion for it and not the cause.
On Tumblr, photos become communal property, emblematic of subcultural affiliations, aesthetic orientations, social locations, and ideological dispositions.
The week’s best online fiction.
This particular year is special, because we have, not just any primary, but a Republican primary. It’s a year-long parade of racist, crypto-fascist delusions. A media-saturated reminder of why we did drugs in high school.
Does January really need to be this dreary? Why does February exist?
New Year’s Eve: The Agony and the Ecstasy
I wouldn’t just spend New Year’s alone; I would spend it alone in a movie theater, watching the worst movie I’ll probably ever pay to see.
Best of the Blog 2k11 (Part 2)
The second part of our look back at the blog.
Best of the Blog 2K11 (Part 1)
Highlights include: sentient robots, hobo superstars, corporate branding, bumbling footy-players, Jennifers vs. Jennifers, Kegasus, book burners, Franzen’s address to the wizarding world, a day in the life of Jonathan Safran Foer, and White People Festivals.
From all of us here at Full Stop Magazine, here’s wishing for happy end-of-year festivities to all of our readers.
“Grandma, what are your thoughts on the de-democratizing pressures of neoliberalism?”
Spending time with your family needn’t be a source of enervation. Instead you can use this interval as a period of study and take holiday gatherings as an opportunity to radicalize your relatives.