Things My Bitches Taught Me
Jane Connor12.22.11
As we hurtle into the shortest, darkest day of the mercenary holiday season, author Jayne O’Connor recounts her tale of accidental redemption. How fostering dogs can transform you into one bad bitch.
couple of old Kim Jong Il pieces (for the broken hearted)
Casey McKinney12.19.11
Nothing much to say today on the deceased cinephile dictator (still digesting Christopher Hitchens death, imagining what he would write in Kim…
Experience the Wait: Carsten Holler
Bradford Nordeen12.15.11
Here’s an idea: art is about access to an imagined experience. Half Seward Street slide and half Escaliers de Montmarte, Carsten Höller’s Untitled (Slide), 2011 is the centerpiece/centrifuge of his New Museum installation Experience, running from October 26 through January 15, 2012. Bradford Nordeen takes a trip through the funhouse of Höller’s making and sends back reports on the waiting front. Here’s the slide, here’s your ticket ro ride.
Stupid Ostrich Tricks, or Why Gary Bettman and the NHL Are on the Wrong Side of the Fighting Debate
Pete Hausler12.15.11
The death of Derek Boogaard earlier this year sparked a controversy in the hockey community: was it drugs and alcohol, or too many concussions suffered on the ice that led to Boogaard’s advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy and early passing? Pete Hausler lays down some knowledge on the importance of the Separation of Fighting and Hockey. As in: it’s possible. As in: what are you afraid of, Gary Bettman?
ANNUAL THOMPSON FAMILY CHRISTMAS LETTER 2011
Peter Thompson12.10.11
It’s that time again for reflection, when magazines make best of lists way ahead of New Years to assist you in developing a cheat sheet for buying yourself a bunch of records, books or whatever for the holidays when you know in your gut you really you should be buying Uggs or fleece blanket-robes for everyone in your family, toys for homeless kids or sending $30 to Reno’s Occupy Wall Street Movement to keep it afloat. Or you could be like Peter Thompson, puzzling over Kardashian tweets and kicking dope. Merry, merry…
The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality
Donal Mosher12.08.11
A party-line game of telephone in which each voice is distinct, The Air We Breathe grew by accretion into a conversation that stepped off the page into an exhibition at SFMOMA, running November 5, 2011 through February 20, 2012. Photographer and filmmaker Donal Mosher enters the pages of the formative text/collage on marriage equality from the mind of editor Apsara DiQuinzio and takes a look at what is on display, and what is at stake. The public and the private forms of exhibition and exchange are on the table.
Sponsored in Part V: You Can’t Have Your Sobriety Cake and Eat It Too
Malina Saval12.03.11
In the fifth installment of Malina Saval’s Sponsored in Part, metaphors fail. The author examines the difference between her own relationship with Al-Anon and that of her husband, that of other Al-Anon couples, and that of the (hypothetical, mythical) sponsor. And the warm, wet-cement feeling of satisfaction (or was that the carbs?) begins to harden in the gut. The cake is a lie. Illustrated by Danny Jock.
Four Poems
Mike Young11.30.11
The fingernails of Mike Young’s poetry scratch up layers of language & history coded in the flesh, and raise the welt of the recent past. Grit right down there in the cuticle. Four new prose poems from the editor of NOÖ Journal.
Lay Mirrors in the Street / Bring Heaven Down to Earth: On Jen Benka’s Pinko
Laura Carter11.28.11
All the leaves fall off the trees in one night (as they do) and all the flowers come back red in the springtime. Laura Carter explores the loveliness in revolution of Jen Benka’s Pinko.
Music: Barreracudas: Nocturnal Missions
Amy Herschleb11.26.11
The first LP from the Barreracudas from Douchemaster Records goes down like a turkey rubbed in butter (too soon?): without tenderness but with…
