Gary Margolis: Visiting Poet
for the Midland School in Los Olivos No one told me I would be sitting across the table from Deyanira, number two wife of Hercules, … Continue reading
Arlene Weiner: John of the Lamp
John of the lamp, poor fellow, you’re quite unstrung. Cat or rat’s got your tongue. Your guts are yellow, your wide grin is hollow. Summon the young to a portal … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Party Invitation for the Age of Unnatural Disasters
If life were like a perfume commercial I’d be spending even more time than I already do gazing pensively into the distance the top buttons of my shirt undone my … Continue reading
The dirty poet: i’m actually arguing with a robot here at work
the future i’m actually arguing with a robot here at work a mobile linen cart rolls up to me and intones approaching elevator, please stand aside i’m not moving a … Continue reading
Video: Liberal Redneck — On Guns
. Trae says, “I sympathize with pro-gun people. Always have. But at some point ain’t enough enough?” Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to watch the … Continue reading
Video: Liberal Redneck — Take a Knee, Ya’ll
. Trae says, “Trump reminded his base of how much they hate the guys that play the sport they love, and re-reminded the rest of us how full a shit … Continue reading
Elizabeth Romero: Game
You be the man. I’ll be the woman. You be black. I’ll be white. You be paranoid. I’ll be ignorant. Ready? Now we’ll fall in love. I’ll take it … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Six characteristics of stand-up comedy that define Donald Trump’s rhetorical style
Trump acts and talks like a stand-up comic, but the joke is on the American people At first listen, Donald Trump’s speaking style when he eschews the teleprompter seems chaotically … Continue reading
Video: Clio Cresswell — Mathematics and Sex
. Mathematics and sex are deeply intertwined. From using mathematics to reveal patterns in our sex lives, to using sex to prime our brain for certain types of problems, to … Continue reading
Molly Fisk: The View from Here
It’s been a while since I’ve had occasion to see the human form, male version, naked, from behind. Luckily, this circumstance was remedied over the weekend, when I went to … Continue reading
Video: Mr Blue Footed Booby
. From the director: “This short film is an invitation to a lucid dream. Let’s take dinner together!” Written and directed by Gino Imagino Email subscribers may click on the … Continue reading
Video: The Addams Family dancing Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones
For a brief moment, forget the hurricanes, the threat of nuclear war, the fires burning in LA, Montana, Washington, DC and the hearts of white supremacists. Breathe in. Breathe out. And repeat after me. “Hey Ho……Let’s go!”
Video: Charles Bukowski’s Crappy Life
. “I’m such a spoiled old toad … I was blessed with a crappy life.” — Charles Bukowski in 1993 One afternoon, Bukowski sat down to record the audio version … Continue reading
Video: Nazi vs. Nazi
. Small Town Tricks Neo-Nazi Marchers Into Raising Thousands Of Euros To Combat Extremism. In preparation for an upcoming neo-Nazi march in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedel, local residents … Continue reading
