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TL;DR: It’s Not – and You Should | Emily Miller

There is a dizzying amount of content on the internet. Although some of that content feels a little more “worthwhile” than other snippets, I...

Columns Michael Leonberger

That Heavenly Man Smell

Seize on the image of a metallic, black bird streaking across the sky, before I ask: what’re your concerns, my son? Step right up...

Andrew Jones Columns

“Just A Spoonful of Musings Helps Reality Go Down…”

Before I even begin, I just want to clarify that yes, it was my intention to have that Mary Poppins tune stuck in your...

Columns

Sites of Liberation: Queerness and Intentional Online Communities | Emily Miller

I have heard some folks (mostly older ones) remark that online dating is sham dating. The threat of rejection is mitigated in the act...

Andrew Jones Columns

Ctrl+Alt+Del

In 2003, the California Coastal Records Project was hard at work on an ambitious quest to develop a photographic archive of the entire California...

Columns Norberto Gomez

DEATH: an excerpt from The Book of Cannibals

Illustrations by the author, screen printed by J. Gomez On the 91st floor of World Trade Center Tower One, musician Stephen Vitiello recorded the...

Columns Michael Leonberger

Atomic Zapruder

It’s just you and me, now. The last two punks. Desperate honeymooners on the eve of the apocalypse. The shattered glass in your hair...

Columns Daniel Fandino

Insubstantial Pageants: Virtual Goods, Lost Worlds and an Impermanent Future

From accidentally deleted term papers to canceled massively multiplayer online games to vanished Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan sites on Geocities, the modern internet...

Andrew Jones Columns

Get Up, Stand Up

Paranoia. Suspicion. Mistrust. Disappointment. Helplessness. This depressing list of terms can be attributed the overall mood of American society in the 21st century in...