Don Hall 11/24/22 Don Hall 11/24/22

[Worth Revisiting] Trusting Hope Over Experience: The Shedding of the Old

“Everything I had built in the past 15 years just went up in smoke. It’s gone. I mean, what the fuck do I do now?”

My friend had gone through one of those tribulations that involved losing status within the community of artists he was a part of, losing his job on top of that, and flailing his now beaten down limbs in search of what he was supposed to do, who he was supposed to be, after the dust had settled.

I understood the feeling.

Joe Janes 11/23/22 Joe Janes 11/23/22

THANKSGIVING DAY HEADLINES

Gangs of Vigilante Drag Queens Vow to Make the Streets Fabulous

Wayne Lerner 11/22/22 Wayne Lerner 11/22/22

The Wooden Door (2)

“Hanging out with your buddies on the street. Beating up strangers so often that the cops at the station know me by name. Stealing. What are you doing with your life?” His Mom slumped down on his bed and put her head in her hands.

Don Hall 11/21/22 Don Hall 11/21/22

I Believe... [Be Fucking Grateful]

...that the holiday isn’t about the food or the genocide—it’s about being fucking grateful. Practice a bit of gratitude and maybe you won’t be such bitter, partisan sonofabitch. Also, grab a plate of root vegetables and offer your indigenous neighbors a blanket covered in small pox cuz covering all bases is the American way.

David Himmel 11/18/22 David Himmel 11/18/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 13, 2022

Trump announcing his candidacy for the presidency is exactly the same as me announcing I’m going to have a bowel movement within five hours after eating McDonald’s. It’s obvious and the result will be a foul mess that’ll take quite a while to clean up.

Don Hall 11/17/22 Don Hall 11/17/22

I Like to Watch | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

His leading actor died. Instead of replacing him or finding a convenient way to deal with it, Coogler embraced the death as a part of the narrative, effectively honoring both Boseman and T'Challa in one fell swoop. I'm so goddamned impressed with the depth of creativity and feeling.

Joe Janes 11/16/22 Joe Janes 11/16/22

Trump Announces Run for Warden

Does anyone know how to make Diet Coke in a toilet?

Wayne Lerner 11/15/22 Wayne Lerner 11/15/22

The Wooden Door (1)

The old wooden door was a sentry protecting those inside.

Don Hall 11/14/22 Don Hall 11/14/22

I Believe... [Learning to Swim]

I believe... that while the lesson to ’never trust anyone ever again’ is reasonable in some cases it is not pragmatic or useful in any way. If you almost drown in the ocean, the better lesson is ‘learn to swim.’ I’m working on my breaststroke from now on.

David Himmel 11/12/22 David Himmel 11/12/22

[Reissued] Suicidal Tendencies and Hägar the Well-Timed Horrible

You can kill your pain and sadness that you had carried with you all those years. But you can’t kill the pain and sadness you’ve now created and left behind.

David Himmel 11/11/22 David Himmel 11/11/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 6, 2022

When you don’t know where to go, go back to the start.

Contributing Writer 11/10/22 Contributing Writer 11/10/22

[Still Relevant] What We Can Learn from Charlize Theron, Elon Musk, and Trevor Noah (Copy)

Charlize Theron was born in South Africa. Elon Musk was born in South Africa. Trevor Noah was born in South Africa. Yet, of these three brilliant, talented, successful people, only one was born a crime in South Africa.

Anonymous 11/9/22 Anonymous 11/9/22

[Worth Revisiting] A Toxic Friendship Fairy Tale

A darkly delightful tale of a hare standing up for herself against a selfish, useless, ignorant fucking bunny.

Contributing Writer 11/8/22 Contributing Writer 11/8/22

[Archived But Fresh] Humans are Scum

I cannot express how excited I am. Because over the past couple weeks since I was assigned this topic, I’ve been overwhelmed by this deep, dark despair. But in the next few minutes, I get to unload it all onto you, and then I can resume the carefree complacency to which I’ve grown accustomed.

You. People. Suck.

It’s true and you all know it and here are seven reasons why.

Don Hall 11/7/22 Don Hall 11/7/22

I Believe... [GenX Kids Were Monsters]

...that, if you’re honest with yourself, you know that you and your prepubescent friends would’ve beat E.T. with rebar and hammers, would’ve absolutely ostracized Edward Scissorhands, and would’ve taken Rick Moranis’s shrunken kids and put them in a mason jar with a firecracker.

Contributing Writer 11/6/22 Contributing Writer 11/6/22

[From the Archives] Required Watching: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

Time for another installment of Required Watching where we knock you out of your comfortable routine of TV and movies to show you a documentary that's weird for the sole purpose of making you a better person. Knowledge is power.

Contributing Writer 11/5/22 Contributing Writer 11/5/22

[From Back in the Day] All Art is Political

But where, might you ask, is Art in all this. Well, if the concept of Politics precedes everything, guess what, Art, informs everything that politics and language created because 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens developed an ability no other animal possesses, the ability to imagine that what which can not be seen. In other words, Imagination. If there is a dividing line between art and imagination, I’m hard pressed to find it.