Paid-members only Witness is not enough Planes were falling from the sky and the sky itself was falling but didn’t the driveway still need shoveling? Salt for the icy steps. The kitchen sink full once again. And every day a new reminder that crying can get you anything you want in the world if it’
Paid-members only The nightmares haven't stopped Today's main thing is a lovely remembrance of the life and music of Garth Hudson of The Band and in particular The Last Waltz by Rax King. Paid subscribers can read it down below or go directly to it here. Everything they gave us before they leftOn Garth
You can’t take it with you This piece appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form. I awoke early enough for the first time in recent memory to see the last of the sunrise spilling out over the roof of the house next door in its twee little pink mist and I thought to myself sure
Paid-members only The city has never felt smaller There is a very small chance that you will be robbed or assaulted today by a random criminal. There is a near 100% chance you will be robbed or harmed today by a landlord or corporation or healthcare company or even the government. Today Joey Scott writes about what it
Paid-members only Whatever safer targets are available Today Arvind Dilawar talks to someone in the West Bank about what life is like there now. “When you lay in your bed at night and you hear the planes and you know exactly a few minutes later someone will be killed…you don’t know what to do with
Paid-members only We live in a kind of mass depression The ongoing Israeli genocide compares to nothing in the history of Palestine.
Paid-members only I'd like to go home now Squid Game, AI, A Long December, treadmills, and future historians
Paid-members only A relentless pursuit of profit Why are reviews of Squid Game season two overlooking capitalism?
How can I love someone I don’t even know? After 34 years, the Internet gave me a sister I’d never known.
Every day I learn of a new horror of the American healthcare system This piece was published in my book Lockdown in Hell World. It’s March and it’s sunny and quiet in my old neighborhood. Too quiet except for the birds. It feels like there’s a blizzard outside that you can’t see. Toward the end of February which is
Paid-members only As transgender as I have been my whole life Patrick Kuklinski returns to write about the looming threat trans people face under the incoming Trump administration. They previously wrote about the “Don’t Say Climate Change” bill in Florida and one of the many recent assaults on the rights and dignity of trans people there. It smelled like deathYou
