Art
Balloons, Beads
John Farris
“What you gonna be when you blow up? I bet you gonna be a balloon…kee kee kee!” That was Willie T’s salutation these days -- delivered with an eye-rolling guffaw registering satisfaction with his cho...
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Poem
Motor City is Not My Home
Emily XYZ
Motor city is not my home / but I love it just the same
Murder city, kill city ok but that’s just one way
to look at the place where so much comes from
and I know GM should have been allowed to fall but for all
the goo...
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Story
Merthiolate (and Other Futile Antiseptics)
Robert C. Hardin
Merthiolate
After failing to kill myself for the eighteenth time, I decided to be more positive. Why focus on failure? I thought. Why not appreciate the character added by damage to my once-perfect body? But despite the p...
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Story
Night Train Heading South
Christian X. Hunter
Excerpts from A Fistful Of Rupees
There is a train to Dharmavaram at 5:00 for fifty-seven rupees. That allows about fourteen minutes buy a platform ticket, retrieve my pack from left luggage, buy some food and find the trai...
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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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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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