Woke Up Dead
...tool that’s free to download and requires very little programming foreknowledge. With a simple bit of syntax, the developer can create complex pieces of interactive fiction. Theoretically, any web design...
Coming Out of the Coffin
...comparison is stretched, please consider the following: in March, The Robson Press, a division of Biteback publishing, published The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker. Discovered by Stoker’s great-grandson Noel Dobbs...
Coweye Burgers and Plastic Malts
...Lunch in the Car -- Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island 06/1973 --From The U.S. National Archives "So to sum up, there is a small bit of the macrocosm inside...
City of the Moon
...of an effort to combat Israeli discourses of Palestinian foreignness and Jewish indigeneity that seek to religiously and historically legitimize the contemporary dispossession of Palestinians, and which will undoubtedly be...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.9.12
...action after the Khroma team essentially ignored their cease-and-desist letter. Osiao growth: Estee Lauder marches forward with its wide-scale promotion of Osiao, the company's newly developed line for Asian consumers....
#JustineHasLanded
...common (as one can get malaria by simply being in an area where infected mosquitoes are likely to bite you). Which is the mis-statement that the “Just kidding. I’m white!”...
National Disgrace
...even know that huge numbers of young people are arrested daily for possessing a bit of marijuana. There are substantial numbers of wealthy individuals who fund efforts to change gay...
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Extremists in The Mainstream
...names (“Operation Danny” on one page becomes “Operation Dani” on the next). This can get just silly, as when he mentions “baklava” (the delicious pastry common throughout the Levant) among...
Powers of the Bottom
...Could you talk a bit more specifically about the relationship between your text-based work and filmmaking practice, particularly with regards to the filmmakers you mention? I am quite drawn to...
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...quite a bit of regret for everything I didn’t discuss enough, or didn’t discuss at all. Silence is actually a really big factor in the novel--and it’s only here in...
Zombie Novel
...bit?’ ‘No, it’s his past,’ he heard the comm operator say. The recruit moaned some more. ‘His past?’ ‘His P-A-S-D man, his P-A-S-D.’” Like everyone else, Mark Spitz has a...
The "Sharing" Economy
...chief example) instead of commodities, and preach how business can “reimagine the larger system” of how they market products to integrate them more deeply into the social life of consumers....
Rome, 1974
...enough to not cling to his thigh, the pocket yawned a bit and I bet it was slippery enough even in the heat to not seek comfort from my small...
Opening the Gate
...England was a little bit like that. We need to go back. We need to go back. And then I came back to Côte d’Ivoire, and my writing has changed....
Trailing after Tarzan
...only functions to excuse and obfuscate what remains as an underlying but still effectively felt message. That the movie is more complicated, more nuanced, more multi-valenced, even more contradictory and...