Skin Feeling
...being skin. “I put quite a bit of study into the horn,” said Bird. How do you study that way? I keep coming back to the hotel, to the couple...
Future Games
...to Fallout, the gaming industry is currently obsessed with apocalypse. Long a staple of TV and cinema screens, the zombie has become even more prominent on PlayStations and computers. Added...
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...
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
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 Journalist and the Suicide
...of daily veteran suicides in 1999 was 20. Since then, it has never come up shy of 17. If anything, the new numbers show improvement over 1999, when veteran suicides...
Turn Down for What?
...In imagining a homogenized future labor force, accelerationism ignores how capital opportunistically sustains difference to survive Communists are not supposed to like capitalism. If there’s one thing everyone knows...
Interview: Leah Smith, Public Policy Ph.D. Student, Lubbock, TX
...of confidence to it. Dressing well has been huge in my life. The comments and the stares could have been really easy for me to internalize if I weren’t careful....
No Contest
...version of those sports. That is a horribly boring possible future and a one that violates the sports fan’s bargain. The fans bankroll the enterprise, every bit of it, and...
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...already read it before, all of it. Or to put it a bit less crudely, it’s difficult to imagine this book’s circulating outside one or two of the subcultures that...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...wash my hair about once a week and it doesn't get nearly as greasy as it did before I did the extended no-shampoo bit. So even though I'm happily washing...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...documents the major events of each day: the triumphs of waking up early, often before dawn, for the coveted packets of sugar that come with breakfast, and a bit later...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was...
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...
Dissecting the Frog
...jokes, who laughs, and who is expected to remain silent). It also calls attention to community tensions — information that is every bit as revealing as uncontested group norms. While...
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...