Vote Jess Spear: Olympia is broken
Monday, July 21, 2014 11:21 — 0 Comments
Sick of Corporate Politics? Elect a Socialist Alternative Jess Spear, Socialist Alternative candidate for State House  Olympia is broken.Â
Mount Rushmore, By Decade
Thursday, July 3, 2014 10:17 — 0 Comments
Below is our list of the four most important Americans in terms of their impact on American culture per decade. It’s our Mount Rushmore of each decade! We began with the 1940’s, the decade of World War II because, well, that’s when modern culture basically started. But, really, we had to start somewhere.
One Super Important Question For Piper Daniels
Monday, June 30, 2014 11:27 — 1 Comment
Piper Daniels is the beautiful Seattle writer who often puts on a smile even when she’s feeling abnormally strange. She’s generous and kind even though she may be feeling manic. Often, she alludes to having very difficult days and even more difficult nights, which is why The Monarch wanted to ask her to share some of her experience, and write about a single day that reflects the trauma she finds herself going through.Â
Tate Modern – Mansour Chow
Monday, May 26, 2014 10:52 — 0 Comments
The Midland Grand Hotel, adjoining St. Pancras Station and now known as St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, was designed by George Gilbert Scott. Among the many of his highly regarded creations, he also designed the Albert Memorial in Kensington, leaving a lasting legacy on London and British landscape.
On the Macklemore Outrage
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 15:35 — 1 Comment
There is no shortage of opinions on Macklemore. This was true even before last Friday’s silliness at EMP involving the now famous “witches nose,†wig and fake beard. It can be fairly reasonably argued that Macklemore has not helped his own cause in this regard—first, by becoming an outrageously famous white rapper—and then by making some pretty big P.R. mistakes along the way. Some argued that the revised version of “Wing$†that debuted as a music video at last year’s NBA All-Star Game was his sell-out moment. When he publically apologized to Kendrick Lamar for winning the Grammy for Best […]
Protons, Neutrons – Darren Davis
Thursday, May 1, 2014 12:50 — 0 Comments
The world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator is 27 kilometers in circumference, beating the world’s second largest high-energy particle accelerator by 21 kilometers. The world’s second largest high-energy particle accelerator is somewhere in Illinois and called Tevatron, which sounds like a robot butler. The world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator is located on the Franco-Swiss border and called the Large Hadron Collider, which sounds like it was hauled in from some distant, crazy galaxy for the express purpose of killing The Avengers.
Paper Cuts: Zines with Craven Rock vol. 1
Monday, April 7, 2014 11:04 — 1 Comment
At this point in my life, I’ve done more writing than just about anything else, except maybe putting it off. A whole lot of folks interested in writing have asked me “have you been published?” when they find out I write. This is usually followed by a “how do you get published?” When I tell them I started by self-publishing, that I put in my dues making zines for years, that’s usually where I lose them. When I explain that, for years, I put out my writing in a photocopied paper zine which I distributed all over the world their […]
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me – Jane Wong
Thursday, March 27, 2014 14:21 — 2 Comments
What I discovered: there is no such thing as too much beauty, too much poetry, or too much limoncello! I ended my Wednesday night of APRIL’s festival (Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature) eating chicken rice at Kedai Makan. But really, I wish I ate “pieces of toast dipped in toilet water†because that’s what one Mark Leidner poem deliciously suggests.Â
Playa de Los Muertos – Sonia Greenfield
Monday, March 3, 2014 11:20 — 1 Comment
The couple know at once that this is “it.†They are entranced. – Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature
Going to the End – P. M. Merlot
Monday, March 3, 2014 11:08 — 1 Comment
I’m on the right street, but the wrong funeral home. If I were thinking clearly, I would turn my car around and head in the opposite direction. Instead, I drive to the second funeral home I know in my father’s hometown. Like the first parking lot, it’s as stark looking as this winter day. I have forty-five minutes left before I miss it all. Part of me wants to. I hate funerals. At the end I am exhausted. I go when I have to. Losing nearly all morning clarity, which is never optimum, I call my parents. I know that […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
