What They Weren’t Worth
The Guidry and Lunton families bear children, live their lives, and die in a world bubbling over with misunderstood words and cliché.
Archive
A collection of 14237 issues
I Live in a Motel
Travelers know what to expect from a motel: not much, besides pornography. When our writer is forced to live in one for a month, he finds a bit more to appreciate.
2 June 2003
New York's currently: all bachelor-ed out The World Bank on aid effectiveness, and The Bretton Woods Project on the World Bank. Lincoln Center loses the Phil to Carnegie Hall. Actually that would be .ORG... Memo to the Wachowskis, by Philip Graham, as originally published on TMN. Quotes
Feats of Strength
As many of you must already know, Rosecrans is getting married soon. So soon, in fact, that his bachelor party was last night. Though we avoided getting a woman to jump out of a cake (Paul Ford and I discussed the unappetizing ramifications of forgetting to take her out before
Dead Meadow, Shivering King and Others
Dead Meadow is dirty, dirty psychedelic rock of the Blue Cheer variety. In fact, so much of the sound is so authentic that you’d swear it was snaked straight out of a ‘60s acid burnout’s record collection. To take the metaphor to more extravagant frontiers, we’ll have
The Miracle of Dust
Marjorie had a perfectly functional, model family in the suburbs, until the Blessed Face of Holy Mother Mary appeared on her television. New fiction by Dennis Mahoney.
30 May 2003
New York's currently: preparing for bachelor-sized feats of strength Rumsfeld meets resistance to efforts to make regime change in Iran official White House policy. Pentagon advocating massive covert action to topple Iran's ayatollahs. Related: Online resources for Iranian history, culture. Despite overwhelming support for change,
29 May 2003
New York's currently: woo-boy, off to a good start Bush shelves Treasury study that shows U.S. faces federal deficits totaling at least 44,200 billion. Because Americans don't care, Rumsfeld: Iraq's chemical and biological weapons may have been destroyed before the war.
28 May 2003
New York's currently: a fucking moor Uproar over Sharon's 'occupation' of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. China hands out baggies to battle spitting in the war against SARS. Organ trafficking suspected in rape and murder of at least 90 women in Mexico. New
A Mental Glimpse
Imagine an old stock machine, with the ticker tape spitting out the side: this, then, is my brain right now: wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding work wedding cheeseburgers wedding wedding deadlines wedding good weather please wedding wedding book wedding family wedding wedding wedding wedding R. wedding ach! wedding wedding wedding