Category Archives: Scenarios

Formulary for a New Urbanism

SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest [...]

Leaving Chicago: a g-chat by Hallie Elizabeth Newton

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) [...]

Crustaceans

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 [...]