Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...an event remembered as the “godsquabble.” These faithful bureaucrats have been keeping records of the costs of the railsea, and nearly kill Sham when he reveals that he hasn't come...
A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
Daddy
...waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover–the spirit of...
Assets
...culture war wins, targets had already been locked. We’ve reached the expiration date on the neoliberalism and austerity that Western democracies long relied upon to maintain a mask of civility...
Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
...been cheating on her with a number of girls. The creative-writing teacher, frustrated at his inability to write a novel, is confronted by the principal for humiliating students, giving them...
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
...fucking life is a wreck / we're desperate / get used to it it's kiss or kill / coca-cola and a motorola kitchen / nauga-hyde and a tie-dye t-shirt /...
Room 406
...brother, go to Tadmor Prison with orders to kill every prisoner, whether they are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or not. The commandos arrive at dawn. The prisoners are in...
Bodies of Water
...its complicity in the dictatorship and the disappearances, including campaigns of misinformation in presenting assassinations as suicides or apolitical crimes. In 1976, the body of Marta Ugarte, a teacher and...
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
...not only kill them but you also will happily cook them for supper. The Japanese, as you very well know, are trained to fight without fear of death. They don’t...
Kids in the Haul
...lady? I’m the Marcia-fucking-Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself.” II. About that Starter Mansion Life: Halfway through the 2012 documentary, The Queen of...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...advertisements consist of paid (“inauthentic”) endorsements, and there are now many places where advertisement and “authentic” comment are mixed up (Twitter streams, Facebook feeds). The claim that “false” endorsements on...
Diner Forty Niner
...that Bruff contemplated, they did commit other crimes, jumping claims, stealing crops, looting homes, ransacking farms, destroying roads, and killing livestock when it suited them. Wherever they went they left...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
System Failures
...of the unprecedented connection which allows soldiers based in the United States to survey, track, and kill targets in countries on the other side of the planet, no exchange seems...
The White Market
...supremacist glee. The Mexicans can wave their skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room....
Ill-Starred Lives
...elephant obeyed. The gunsmith meanwhile raised a carbine to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The explosive steel-tip bullet it discharged struck home, but it did not kill Castor. Blood...