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I don’t know what the real name of this thing is, but if I were to
name it I think I’d call it the Dutch Masters Night of the
Bloody Apes, a tribute to its B-grade horror film-like qualities.
It’s an average-sized individually wrapped cigar.  At $0.89, I’m
guessing you’d need about three hundred million of them to
trade for [...]

“My work is about being human,” says Tyler Thomas of his art. “I think about all sorts of things while working but it mostly comes down to my idea of mankind, overpopulation phobia, rage, depression, euphoria, social anxiety, repetition, and then some shit that’s like an inside joke I share with close friends.” Tyler was [...]

“Take them damn grape peels from between your teeth”
- Townes Van Zandt “Talking Thunderbird Blues”
It started much like any other night…. I walked up to the counter gripping in each hand a bottle of Thunderbird, the clerk giving me an odd glance. “It’s for a magazine,” I said. I actually have quite a bit of [...]

Why throw them out, when you can throw them outside? It doesn’t take a miracle to cultivate a weed. Guerilla growing can benefit all of us in several ways. One; cheaper stuff, let’s say that on your next hike, you throw out a pinch of seeds here and there, go home and forget about them. [...]

Quitely coasting underneath Virginia’s massive motor vehicle bureaucracy is an exception.  Any vehicle with less than four wheels and which displaces less than 50cc–a sip more volume than the standard shot glass–is largely unregulated by the Department of Motor Vehicles.  One doesn’t need a license, tags or insurance to ride a sub-50cc “moped,” as the [...]

It’s not unusual for Congress to create special investigative committees to expose enemies of the United States.  Nor is it unusual for those committees to hold hearings outside of Washington, DC.
But it’s not every day that a two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner named Smedley strolls into a hearing in New York and spins a [...]

By David Whitesell
I tore into her jet-black Spanx with an intensity and ferocity that startled and excited us both. I had wielded the hand shears often, but never with the intention of separating a woman and her undergarments. The meticulously honed tool entered the fabric with the audacity and ease of a street preacher.
The seemingly [...]

To be as blunt as possible, fat happy writers don’t write quality material, just like fat happy musicians don’t produce the best quality music. So tell me? Why is it that we’re all so tempted to sit back and amicably support the WGA strike? Does the WGA have a positive effect on creative output in [...]

Finding yourself navigating through treacherous territory, through briars and brambles, compass broken, a black night sky bearing down on you, it seems all hopes are lost. And then you hear it. The bitter, biting wind drifts into a soft summer breeze; upon it wafts a melody. A lullaby of sorts, calming your fears, vanquishing the [...]

The plan was simple.  We would sneak out of our houses, grabbing only essentials; some clothes, food, and whatever money we could find around the house.  We would then meet at our usual spot with our gear and 10 speeds and set off on the W&OD trail heading east.  From there we would wing it [...]