July 2010
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Steal This Dinner
“There’s always going to be someone who is the naughty judge, someone who’s going to be the governor who double-crosses the people, and there has to be a me. If there isn’t a me, we’re in big trouble.” ———Abbie Hoffman
Chicago Seven defendant and counterculture dissident, Abbie Hoffman, once defined himself as “an orphan of America” and “a child of...
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Gnawing Through the Genre Leash
Goth is never forever.
Any of us who dabbled in the darker aesthetics during our formative years have surely learned that vital lesson. Graveyard dreams and existential thoughts may have given us Halloween every night, but who among us hasn’t cringed while reminiscing on the costumes we draped ourselves in?
Eventually the need for gainful employment forces grooming on us. Or we wake...