May 16, 2014 |
Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy World Tour 2002 ★ 2003 Black T-shirt
Jordan Wiklund
It has bullet holes in it.
Or rather, it’s meant to look like it’s been peppered with buckshot. The front of my Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy World Tour 2002 ★ 2003 black t-shirt features a
May 15, 2014 | Nonfiction
ALL THE DESIGNER CLOTHES I OWN
Jordan Castro
Versace "Medusa" V-Neck T-Shirt
This is the first article of designer clothing I ever owned. A month or so after I got out of rehab my grandma gave me a Nordstrom gift card for my birthday and
May 14, 2014 | Interview
Young Gods: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Katherine Faw Morris
But almost everyone is better to party with than writers. Like cops. Cops have way better stories than writers do.
5 Short Essays
Thomas Cook
Imagine if you can, "a dirty house in a gutted world," the poet said, which what the poet said is precisely what I saw when I stopped to look around while listening to reports from the BBC and ironing my favorite lavender blouse.
DAVID BOWIE BUILDS THE HOUSE ON LITTLE TONSHI MOUNTAIN -- annotated
Simon Jacobs
Architecturally, it is almost an exact replica of the Indonesian-style villa he had constructed on the Caribbean island of Mustique in the late 80s; the original, with its layered streams and koi
Under the Skin
Sean Kilpatrick
I enjoy when a formal beauty proves they have art. Gosling did. Even Shia. Franco tries. We all mean well. There’s lots of ways to feel pain besides being ugly
SKY RAT Q&A
Gary J Shipley
Rauan has died before now. This revelation was not something divulged one evening when the blood had cooled and certain admissions are made all by themselves. No. He’s never said so, this
Feeling Good Is Believing Badly
Sam Nam
The posse gutted your daddy’s cattle and made your little sister gasp until she made no sounds at all. They lit cigars off the flames of your mother’s head and tied your daddy’s neck to a horse.
How I Turned Skyrim into a Middle-Class Life Simulator.
Darren Davis
In November 2011, Bethesda Game Studios released Skyrim, a gigantic, multi-console fantasy role playing game set in Bethesda's larger Elder Scrolls universe. Also in November 2011, I was just starting my graduate program at the University of Washington. I watched the footage on YouTube and told myself that after grad school, after I was done studying literary nonfiction and contextualizing and living an examined life, I would play the hell out of this game.
What We Take With Us: an Interview with Amy Kurzweil
Katie Peyton
Amy Kurzweil likes to kick rocks and pull down curtains. Metaphorically, of course – she’s a writer.
Through her precocious and delightfully distrustful narrators, she examines the constructs
3 Comics
Cameron Pierce and Jim Agpalza
As Randy Johnson awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a mutant killing machine.
Ellis was truly surprised by
Ode to Joy
Jim Ruland
People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it’s either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted
Enemy
Sean Kilpatrick
Enemy is the only title a film about relationships should have.
You Think You Can Stop Me
Dennis Scott Herbert
You Think You Can Stop Me??
You can’t stop me.
So they don’t let me bring my cooler no more, big deal. I’ll go to my truck. Cold beers in my truck, my personal space. Right there in the
The Catcher’s Shadow
Joe Aguilar
Any hitter can read any catcher’s shadow. Adjust for time of day and source of light, adjust for pitcher arm slot, specialty, handedness. Adjust for sea level, wind, weight of air, smog or lack of
hi my name is, huh? my name is, what?
Richard Wehrenberg, Jr.
rich
in maybe middle school i started telling my teachers, on the first day of class, that i’d prefer to be called rich. my friends started calling me rich too, because i told them to. i think
Baseball Fan
Shane Kowalski
In the bedroom, my girlfriend, every time she climaxes, shouts out: Bob Feller!
She is a big baseball fan.
Does it bother me that my girlfriend shouts out the name of Bob Feller in pleasure
No Kin in Flowers
Carabella Sands
You drink all the beers I bought
And push towards me an arm full of bottles
You say, “I want to be alone
With my dreams forever.”
I leave you to be with my dreams
They are all of you
An Excerpt from Unchecked Privileges, or I've Got To Sing a Torch Song
Michael Sajdak & Gucci Lean
I'm giving up cold turkey for lent.
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The shuffling of their feet wakes you ask they sneak into your stable at night. These are the biker boys, the popular boys in