A deerheaded woman does it with a hunter. A heart falls out. A herd of goats clog dance in pistol fire. A missing limb grasps at nipples. An older brother named Royal with a fighting problem goes missing, sends his mother human-sized stuffed bunny rabbits for Valentine’s day. This transcendent circus danced from the minds […]
The Unintentional Revolutionary
“How is a beard Revolutionary?” you might ask. Well, anyone who has read Iron John knows that in facial hair there is a sexual energy that is so powerful it may disturb your mother (seriously, Robert Bly says this, look it up).
Writing about a movement in the moment is incredibly difficult. You can record an event journalistically, but it takes great skill to actually capture a sense of the dynamism involved in something that explodes with such populist fervor. A movement can make even the most gifted writer come off like an idiot scribbling platitudes.
We’re dressing like our last meal was last week (and it was a grimy mix of radioactive ash and future-fascist propaganda) as we battle our way down the imaginary catwalk in some of our favorite versions of humanity’s post-apocalyptic future.
I’ve had a difficult time writing about Occupy Wall Street. I’m either too exhausted, stunned, or ambivalent about what I have just seen or taken part in that very little of what I write ends up coherent or somehow nuanced. Still, something happened this morning that I can’t just keep in my head: Michael. Bloomberg. Blinked.
Peace is Unhealthy for Design and Other Non-Living Things
Most Baby Boomers are dorks. That they set themselves up in opposition to the Greatest Generation as The Coolest Generation only makes them dorkier. They invented the New Age aesthetic. They wore top hats. They literally sported rose colored glasses.
Here are the answers. Not that they matter.
As promised, here are the answers to the Europa Editions Existentialism Quiz.
The week’s best online fiction.
Now, Amazon is hurting individual humans, who probably resemble the humans that buy from Amazon. For the first time, Amazon could be seen as hurting their own customers.
Football Jerseys of the Authors
I decided to do some research on the football backgrounds of some famous authors. To say the least, I was SURPRISED by what I found.