In the Streets with Craven Rock
Friday, November 13, 2015 12:01 — 0 Comments
Last year was a high watermark for Seattle’s anti-police brutality movement. Catching the wave of resistance that started in Ferguson over the murder of Michael Brown, and continuing in New York, over the killing by asphyxiation of Eric Garner and what came to be known as Black Lives Matter, Seattle activists took over the Westlake Center Shopping Mall in protest of police violence everywhere. Disrupting business as usual, the mall was closed three hours early, enraging of lot of Americans camped out with a hard-on for bargains. Steam had already been building in 2014, as Seattle activists attempted to take […]
I called Myself SandwichEnthusiast – Steven Barker
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 9:14 — 0 Comments
The only dating website I paid for was Zooks. During my free trial I was bombarded with messages stating that woman were trying to chat with me, and the only way to view these messages and respond was by inputting my credit card information. I determined $29.99 for a month of membership was a reasonable price to satisfy my curiosity. As soon as I became a paying customer I saw that six out of the eight women who’d requested a chat had cancelled their accounts, but I managed to start a dialog with 28-year-old Russian who liked Hitchcock movies. We […]
Meet Tim Tracey
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:16 — 0 Comments
“This is the second time I’ve ever been interviewed,†Tim Tracey tells me before going into a story about driving with friends around the U.S. post college. A local news station interviewed him about landing their van, which had to be abandoned, into a giant puddle. I’m sitting in the living room of Tim’s modest Greenwood home. Above us is a large banner that reads, “Great With Child But Longing For Stewed Prunes.†The floors are unswept – to be expected since Tim and his wife, Malka, recently had a baby, Bertram Boaz Buckwheat Tracey. Malka bounces the infant on […]
Tinder Is Really Awkward When We Can’t All Be Humans Safely – Maggie MK Hess
Friday, June 12, 2015 12:21 — 0 Comments
This culture of violence against women that the world has been rocking for the last couple of millennia has a lot of downsides.
What Men on Tinder Really Want – Maggie MK Hess
Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:40 — 0 Comments
Things seem to go especially wrong when men try to describe what they want on Tinder. I assume this is true of women describing what they want as well. There’s just something so damn awful about listening to a person lay out their expectations for someone they haven’t even met yet. It never comes across as helpful. It comes across as so entitled. I am not on Tinder to apply to be your girlfriend. This is not a you-buyer/me-seller situation. We’re both in charge of selling ourselves and seeing who lingers while eyeing the goods. Describing what you expect from a woman doesn’t remotely […]
An Annotated Tinder Profile – Maggie MK Hess
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 9:39 — 0 Comments
About Beauty lies on the inside (1), but I am a sucker for pretty eyes and a sunny smile (2). I’m a Graphic and web designer, and I own a branding/design business (3). I love hiking, jamming, photography and just about every sport known to man (4). I’m good at building and fixing stuff (5). Looking for a somewhat intellectual person (6). Kinda old fashioned (7). Footnotes 1. I hear sensitive guys get laid more. 2. You gotta be hot, though. You gotta be hot. 3. I’m unemployed / freelance a little bit for my dad. 4. I’ll do anything […]
A Guide to Translating Things Men Say on Tinder – Maggie MK Hess
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 10:10 — 2 Comments
There are lots of phrases that appear over and over on Tinder that make me wonder if we really are all speaking the English language. Because while you’re saying one thing, I’m hearing something…else. “Positive vibes only, please.†No emotions, please. “Work hard, play harder.†Pi Kappa Phi “I know how to treat a woman right.†I don’t know how to treat a woman like a human being. “Boyfriend material.†All women want the same thing, and that thing is me. “Willing to lie about where we met.†I’m ashamed women won’t date me IRL. “Looking for casual fun.†Sex. Not mini-golf. […]
Why Tinder Is Better Than Candy Crush Saga – Maggie MK Hess
Monday, June 8, 2015 10:06 — 0 Comments
Say it’s a sunny day. You’re walking down the street, looking at everybody you pass, and everybody’s heads are up, and people are smiling. Everyone is interesting. Some of them look like people you’d like to be friends with. Someone is the best bucket drummer you’ve ever seen. And some of them are handsome motherf***ers who you’d like to date. Maybe you even make eye contact with someone. But how in the world are you going to meet him? Basically no one is aggressive enough to ask someone out while passing them on the street, and that attention is almost never […]
Lightening the Load – Andrew Bartels
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:19 — 0 Comments
It’s the end of the school year. College students all across the nation are tossing their notebooks aside and heaving sighs of accomplishment, relief, abandonment. As a teacher I feel the same, happy to be done with tests, grades, and lectures, for three months at least. For some it’s the end of a college career and on to, as they say, “The Real World.†So long to the dorm, that cozy hive. So long to all that crap I bought at Ikea with my student loans. That’s right. The end of the school year is a boon for dumpster divers, […]
Hassan Hajjaj’s World Premiere and the Assumptions of Modernity – Ahsan Butt
Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:46 — 0 Comments
Hassan Hajjaj styles, photographs, installs, interior-designs, dee-jays—essentially, he arts. His works have featured in Brooklyn, Paris, and London museums. And now, he’s a documentarian. The world premiere of his first film, A Day in the Life of Karima: A Henna Girl, was hosted two Wednesdays ago at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) Bing Theater. The (free) event included a Q&A with Hajjaj and Karima herself. The film has been dubbed a companion piece to his most famous exhibit—‘Kesh Angels—which centered around a series of photographs of Karima and her henna crew posed on motorbikes while dressed in […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
