Chubz: the Demonization of my Working Arse
...now, to a better place; blood is returning to his face, and his stoned eyes flicker with comprehension. I bite my lip, I love the sleaze. He smiles at me,...
Trophy Season
...These incidents, along with J’s gravely serious, rarely smiling face, gave me the impression that J was bad. So when J was on my class list for the improv comedy...
The Bod of the Father
...a little bit of extra fat in certain areas.” It is fitting that dad bod will become a lifestyle brand, because it asks those who desire it to aspire to...
The Passion of Private Manning
...a happy ending, and it often does—at the movies. Some critical bit of intelligence is a common McGuffin in suspense movies and pulp thrillers. Villains have suppressed some important piece...
Can't Wait Forever
...Rock, currently the site of the largest mobilization of Indigenous North Americans in recent history, to deliver supplies and document events. “The community there is a perfect example of what...
Is Entourage Sorry?
...as I didn’t really want to watch Entourage, it would be okay to watch it a little bit. But then something strange happened: Instead of the traditional formula, the show...
Housewife Demonology
heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit
Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
Kitchen Wisdom
...into which I could spit the offending morsel. My culinary misadventures in Chile didn't end with that bit of bull's bull-hood. Everywhere I went it seemed bad food lurked. Chicken...
Black Arts Boomerang
...can re-construe police brutality as "justifiable accidents", while community defense efforts are distortedly framed as resisting arrest and incitement to riot. Jordan’s question—how to settle scores, how to push the...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...
Un(der)seen Cinema: Tomato Is Another Day
...as an unparalleled bit of Dadaist pranksterdom and parody whose pun-heavy critique of Hollywood writing and directing styles, at six and a half minutes long and eighty-two years old, still...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...quality. But I'm assuming that sales don't cover the operating costs? Well thank you. We do make an effort. Funds come from a variety of sources. Worldreader gives us seed...
Feral Memes
...interspersed with dozens of images of cats, often posing with ISIS militants. These tweets were written in humorous LOLspeak and identified their subjects, with a bit of clever wordplay, as...
Preservation Society
...even bottled my own wine, but I had yet to pickle or preserve. Such kitchen arts had always seemed unduly complicated -- all paraffin, pressure cookers, and mason jars. A...