Everybody knows what a gold digger is. We know it the way we know what a policeman or doctor is. A gold digger is basically a prostitute, but somehow less respectable, because at least a prostitute will give you a price list. The gold digger is a person who’s after all the same things the […]
Read more "I Ain’t Calling Her a Gold Digger…"So I was thinking about this Israel Hammas thing and isn’t it accurate to say that a huge part of the conflict is built into the idea of how “the nation” is going to work as a thing? Like you go, Israel is a nation for exiled Jews. Okay. But wait, so is there a […]
Read more "Hummuna Hummuna Hammas"Trauma is a big word. By itself it works like a land mine, exploding out of conversation to devastate the mood of whatever we’re talking about. It tells us something big is here, some unerasable crime. As soon as we hear the word “trauma” we know that whatever we’re talking about was not some accident. […]
Read more "SKIG (Skin In The Game)"ACT 5: MY MOM SAYS I’M THE RANSOMEST BOY IN SCHOOL COMPLIMENT SANDWICH So compliment: Congratulations. We can trust you with Justin. I went to the mat for you on this one, believe me. If I was you I might have just driven his dumb ass off the nearest cliff. But he’s back safely at […]
Read more "Freedom’s Gayest Hostages, The Play That’s Not Acting Ch.7"ACT 4: THE GUY YOU LOVE TO HATE COMPLIMENT SANDWICH So compliment: You didn’t kill me. Everybody who really knows me wants to. I’m sure it was hard now that you’ve heard. But you didn’t kill me, even though I really do deserve it, at least according to everyone who’s done the math. And now […]
Read more "Freedom’s Gayest Hostages, The Play That’s Not Acting. Ch.6"Whenever we talk about “the street”, we take for granted that other people will know what we’re talking about. Half the reason to even bring up “the street” is always just to create an excuse to tell someone else that they don’t know shit about it, but no one is so dense that they think […]
Read more "Princess Fantastic’s Guide to the Street"Any conversation about how natural it is to be naked is almost guaranteed to make you feel like you’re talking to someone who spends too much time in a tanning salon. Chances are that if someone wants to open with the words: “We all come into this world naked you know…” then they want to […]
Read more "5 Things You Didn’t Know About Being Naked"“That guy looks like my mom’s boss. He was over here like three months ago for a Christmas thing. If that’s not him it fucking looks like him.” And the video froze, just as Arnold Tuplete’s hands tipped off their perch over his head. Isaac Arce’s eyes scrubbed the vision of Arnold’s face as it […]
Read more "Living Legend Ch.6"Everywhere TV news crews go, they have the same problem. There’s really no such thing as passively filming a crowd of people who can see there’s a camera, because the second a camera shows up, people make goofy faces and start waiving into it. There’s some instant temptation to it that’s just too strong. From […]
Read more "The “Hi Mom!” Effect: a Beginner’s Guide to Recognizing Game."If someone points a gun, menaces with a knife or raises their hand in violence, the place where that strike is going to land feels a certain way on the body. There’s no direct, mechanical connection between our body and theirs, not yet anyway, but still, a type of touching relationship has begun. It’s their […]
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