Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 109, January 2023 2022 was the first nearly full year of live music since 2019. By last March it felt like many people and artists were acting like the pandemic was over (it isn’t) and making up for the previous two years with active touring and playing […]
Sweet Buddah By Eric Joyner Published Issue 109, January 2023 I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school, as well as drawing and painting.
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 109, January 2023 Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, Translated by Sarah Booker (2022) Ecuadorian author Mónica Ojeda’s first novel translated into English melds horror with trauma and dark teenage antics in this urgently current work. Ojeda’s story opens with Fernanda, a teenage student, realizing she has been kidnapped and
Earthworm Rocket By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 109, January 2023 This page from a 1971 journal, featuring Mr. Magic working on an earthworm rocket, exemplifies Mark Mothersbaugh’s lifelong exploration of the relationship between humans and technology. – Mark Mothersbaugh: MYOPIA Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of
Informally Informed, So To Speak By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 109, January 2023 My Friend Criticized Me For Laughing At My Own Joke, So I Criticized Him For Not Making A Joke For Me To Laugh At Listen people, you can’t have it both ways. If you don’t like the fact
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Death Becomes Her By Curtis Bergesen aka Collage The World Published Issue 109, January 2023 This handmade collage was created listening to 道 -STORY- by DJ Krush Curtis Bergesen — aka Collage The World — was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Bethesda, MD. He is a vegetarian, only child, Eagle Scout and nature lover.
EMBLAZONED By Joddy Murray Published Issue 109, January 2023 In one salad you see our eyes, our tongues bent in partial curls like potato chips— half-spoken and thumping with an aboriginal beat. Sometimes embroidered on skirts or flayed cuffs is a declaration: time monogramed. In hindsight, you bend your day, your husky reality voiced and
The Pros & Cons of Visiting All 3 Meow Wolf Locations in 3 Days: An interview with a courageous multiversal traveler By Quinn Fati Photos by Atlas Media Published Issue 109, January 2023 Have you visited one of our exhibits and immediately started planning trips to our other locations? Have you called in sick so you
Spayth By Wlffbby Published as the Index for Issue 109, January 2023 Wlffbby is a Lakewood Colorado based illustrator and graphic designer who specializes in the little details in life. She enjoys creating highly detailed pieces with Easter-eggs hidden throughout and has been heavily inspired by the work of Phillipe Druillet. She enjoys biking and
Nighttime Hungers, Part II By Maggie D. Fedorov Published Issue 108, December 2022 His fingers are stiff and unmoving as I weave them between my own. I saw him last in February, just after he’d gotten his diagnosis. Pancreatic Cancer, stage four. I think back to the last time we spoke, only just last week. Even