All Spokes
The Long Cold
See the Edition!
So maybe there’s no blue.
Walls and oceans. Passing through things requires a degree of change. Sometimes you’re ready to pass through a wall and it’s still a wall. Sometimes you’re ready to cross an ocean and it’s still an ocean
...Her Gift
Part I
Mallaby had not spoken for three and a half years—it was a kind of vow he had made. Granted, he had occasionally spoken to himself: every other month, when in his own company, he might expel the faintest of mumbles, but this, he believed, did not truly count
...Who’s Job Is It To Catch That Squirrel?
On My Home
Have you ever felt like you’re the only person in the world who cares about something?
What if you were? Some reckoning
...Beyond the Garden Wall
For S.
Beyond the garden wall we walked,
And wondered why it was
That everything seemed doubly beautiful in the half-light
...THE INESCAPABLE GANG VIOLENCE BETWEEN CUSTOMER AND EMPLOYEE
TLC: In Review
The minimum wage, part-time job is almost unavoidable in the lives of the young and/or poor. It occupies the similar milestone position in one’s maturation as losing your first tooth
...Flowers Will Bloom
Revolution and Revival in the Wake of Catastrophe
A year ago, I started my year abroad in Washington, DC
...Gloop Logic
An Unfurling
I was walking with a friend who knows more about sculpture than I do. We were walking from a teahouse to a pub and along the way we found a statue.
A bird shits on the statue
...The Lamest Chronic Illness Going
A Reclamation of Filth
Drive Your Plow headlined the Windmill last night. This isn’t really the piece I wanted to write about Drive Your Plow—they’re a wonderful band—but I don’t know what I’d say in another piece about them besides that they’re a wonderful band. Music and scents are difficult to describe, I’ve learned
...El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba and Radical Hope
A Reflection on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
As I write this, the final few votes are being counted in the 2024 United States Presidential election, and it is already clear that Former President Donald Trump will imminently begin his metamorphosis into President of the United States of America for the second time
...Opening Night
CIFF 24: In Review
A twist of wrist and the blinds dropped down on a dreary Wednesday—dreary, teary and full of weary. Last words uttered and a rush to the ground—spreading my mat on the floor and myself upon the mat of course—up since the early hours so best to get some snooze before evening
...A Note on Places and People
CIFF 24: In Review
Film festivals are situated, yes? Where? You can’t pry them from places; Cannes, Berlin, Milan, Clapham. Simon would tell you that Clapham was a village before London engulfed it
...Flyering: Beau Travail
CIFF 24: In Review
The 23rd of November was frightfully cold. It was 9am or a little after on a Saturday—I run late on Saturdays—and I was on Venn Street flyering for the festival. Normally there’s a market on Venn Street at 9am or a little after on Saturdays, but on that day there was only half a market
...