Downtown from the Avenue of the Americas
Jose Padua
I am not the Avenue of the Americas;
I have never been topless at Billy's Topless—
no one in Manhattan ever called the Avenue of the Americas
the Avenue of the Americas we called it Sixth Avenue.
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The Peoples College
Drew Hubner
#1-The Vet
I sell nickel bags
Pretty good weed sure
Comes in bricks from Mexico
Ive seen the whole operation
The trucks
The safe house up on Walton Ave
We went down to Manhattan to the city to party and goof around b...
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Story
Uranium City Return
Tim Beckett
An excerpt from the novel "Uranium City Return"
At the end of the road, an airstrip appears, as unexpected as a landing pad for aliens. Instinctively, I look for the Eldorado Mine and the company town of Eldorado that str...
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Story
Beer Mystic: A Novel of Inebriation & Light
bart plantenga
Beer Mystic Excerpt #12 - Jack Magazine
David Sandlin
Furman Pivo believes he [plus beer] may be the cause of a rash of streetlight outages. This sense of empowerment transforms him into the Beer Mystic. He...
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Music
Eight Day Clock
Bob Bannister
Eight Day Clock came out on the Twisted Village label in 1992 to about as much acclaim as a record in an edition of 500 copies can get - various people said various complimentary things, but the following from Ben Chasny...
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Music
Invasion From The Chicken Planet
Steve Horowitz
A documentation of the Friday night performance of Steve Horowitz' musical composition on January 29, 2010 at REDCAT for 10 musicians, 4 actors, 2 singers and narrator. The video projections were created by Zig Gron. The mus...
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Painting
Justine Frischmann – New Work
Justine Frischmann
Justine Frischmann employs the Low-Fi materials of a suburban hardware store to dig through the ash and rubble of Modernism. Her methodical self‐canceling is depicted with vandalism, improvised geometrical methods, and...
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Classics
Jack Kerouac explains what "Beat" means – in French
Jack Kerouac
I love this interview with Jack Kerouac, conducted in French, from a Canadian chat show. I was always surprised, whenever anybody asked Kerouac what the "Beat" generation meant, that nobody ever took into account the fact th...
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