Kulturkampf (North Park is Dead)

My X-Box 360 got a red ring of death last night.  I found a gray hair this morning while applying my Rogaine… and North Park is dead! It was a strange day.  I woke up hungover.  My brain felt like it was wrapped in gauze, working its way through a slow burn.  My head felt obtuse, my hands clumsy.  I grabbed my laundry and headed for the Laundromat.  Powerlines hang over the city like a web.  The clunk of my coins into the machine was... Read More

Your Music Sucks! (and so do you)

What the hell is going on with music these days? I don’t know if it’s because this is a generation of whiny little emo bitches or if the fact that live studio recordings are completely extinct but music today fucking sucks. Songs are just a collection of a thousand sound-bites, probably unable to be played as they are recorded by the very bands that release the songs.  Audio tracks are compressed, equalized, and squeezed into a limited range... Read More

The Death of Democracy

It all started with a camel. Myself and a couple buddies sitting around bored at work start shooting the shit, one thing leads to another and before anyone knew it we were all balls deep in a probing socio-political discourse. It was one of those rare conversations where you go all the way down the rabbit hole and come out the other end affected by simply the act of discussion with other non-zombies. These types of conversations are the bitter... Read More

The Big Disconnect – by Brad I.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of post-collegiate soul searching lately. Looking at my place in the world and wondering where my efforts would be most effectively applied. Seems pretty straight forward, but unforuntately, it isn’t. Things are pulling from all directions now. We don’t have a youth movement, our wars are manufactured (and thus, pretty tough to get behind on a personal level) and our counterculture is bought and sold for $9.95 with... Read More

Back From The Dead

I find it almost surreal, like a new chapter in a play that seems to be rewriting history as it goes along.  I’m sure there will be a lot of acclaim and ridicule because of this insignificant sequence of events, in some circles the site has taken on somewhat mythic proportions.  I have heard my name praised and condemned by friend and foe alike because of my ridiculous scrawling here.  Truly I hope to reconnect with what I consider to be the... Read More

Dystopia

DYSTOPIA: definition dys-/dus- (Latin/Greek roots: ‘bad’ or ‘abnormal’)  +  -topos (Greek root: ‘place’) =  ‘bad place’ eu- (Greek root: ‘good’) / ou- (Greek root: ‘not’) + -topos (Greek root: ‘place’) = ’good/no place’ dystopia n. an imaginary wretched place, the opposite of utopia utopia n. a place... Read More

Hunter-Gatherer

Hello, I am a hunter-gatherer. This is by no means a recent revelation, and it has not only been apparent to me but every other member of the group of people I hang out with for years now. In essence, the whole crew consists of a bunch of hunter-gatherers. No we don’t go running around in loincloths and shoot bows and arrows at deers and shit, but we have come to realize that we are members, ... Read More