In Which He Writes Another Hilarious One about Suicide / Drevlow
There’s that Goth kid episode of South Park where Stan’s girlfriend dumps him so he decides to be goth and he asks the goth kids how to...
top of page
Apr 264 min read
¡VIVA LA TACO TUESDAY! (since 1989) / DREVLOW
Growing up in Northernass Wisconsin in the 80s and 90s, we had a Hardees, a KFC, and a Dairy Queen with sod thrown over the sides and top...
Mar 263 min read
Deep in Mexico / Mark Rogers
photo by Mark Rogers We arrive in Ciudad Obregon an hour before midnight. Sophy’s twin sisters Eva and Evie are traveling so we pick up...
Mar 136 min read
Weighty (Sorry, Fat Joke) / Benjamin Drevlow
At his heaviest John Candy weighed 300 pounds. At my heaviest I weighed 325 pounds. Which is right now. They talk about how Candy...
Mar 96 min read
Portrait of the Blue-Collar Artist in Five Bruce Springsteen Songs / Colin Brightwell
"Dancing in the Dark" Something's wrong. I hit the snooze button one too many times and my boss says that I'm late. My feet hurt. I can't...
Mar 92 min read
Our Daily Bread / Mark Rogers
artwork by Mark Rogers I was in the lounge of a movie theater, waiting for the next show to begin. Sitting next to me was a middle-aged...
Feb 232 min read
Not Dead Yet / Benjamin Drevlow
I’m at a bar in Kansas City with a shirt that says NOT DEAD YET. It’s as close as I can come to optimism. In Kansas City. In February....
Feb 1418 min read
Jar of Rattles / Frank Reardon
I was eight years old and had taken a drive with my father to Bushlands outside of Amarillo. We arrived at a placed called the Floating...
Jan 261 min read
The Contract / Mark Rogers
photo by Mark Rogers Years ago, on an evening game drive in Zambia, driving along in an open Land Rover, we come across three lionesses...
Jan 2210 min read
Notes from Trump's Fascist Rally in Downtown Grand Rapids March 28th, 2019 / Garret Schuelke
I got home from work, showered and changed, and immediately ordered an Uber. One minute before he was scheduled to pick me up, I remember...
bottom of page