It was the first time I have seen my mother dance. She clung tightly to my stepfather, her tear-stained face resting on his shoulder. Next to me, my brother wept at the sight, covering his face with his hands. I hesitantly rested my hand on his hunched shoulder, longing to reach out in a big [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
“Um… it just all ties together.”
May 28, 2009 – 11:19 am
Luke Myer and Andrew Neel’s New World Order opened at New York’s Cinema Village on Friday. The film follows various so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ and activists as they pass out flyers outside Ground Zero, cover a Bilderberg Group meeting in Istanbul, and prepare for the imminent collapse of American Civilization in Idaho. Without narration, New World [...]
The Truth About the Kiss: A Poem by Traci Brimhall
May 25, 2009 – 11:15 pm
No one wants to know Vivien Leigh
walked off screen and complained about
Clark Gables’ bad breath. No one wants
to know an act of betrayal inspired Rodin’s
marble lovers. We want to believe in passion,
in moonlight and doorways, that slip
of the tongue we give so we may be taken.
But we must admit it. The famous post-war
picture of a [...]
Leaving Chicago: a g-chat by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
May 21, 2009 – 9:16 am
He came in and everyone was like “Mike Mike Hi Mike”
And he never said anything
And then in the middle of some total loser’s story about nothing he was like, “Hey Seth I have a gift for you” and pulled out a rubber coffee top
And “Seth” (in a red Patagonia and goggles, no I’m not lying) [...]
Hope Against Hope: Utopia in Four Movements
May 14, 2009 – 1:25 am
Never has the utopian impulse seemed closer to realization and yet never has its hope been so permanently extinguished than in the past century. It is precisely these events, and a concern for the century without such a hope presently yawning in front of us, that motivates filmmaker Sam Green’s new work in progress, Utopia in Four Movements.
History of the Confederacy of the Unconscious: Poem by S.C. Hahn
May 12, 2009 – 12:34 pm
All traces of this indigenous nation have vanished except for the stitching pattern of buttonholes on plaid flannel shirts, which symbolizes an ancient creation myth.
French narratives of the 17th century mention this confederacy’s chief town as lying “several days southwest of the Loup nation,” which conjecture places near the Republican River in southern Nebraska.
The inhabitants [...]
Crustaceans
May 8, 2009 – 9:21 am
One day, Gérard de Nerval went for a stroll in the gardens of the Palais-Royal with a living lobster on a leash. The idlers crowded around him, flabbergasted and roaring with laughter at the strange retinue. One of his friends having asked him why he was making such a fool of himself, Nerval replied: ‘But [...]
