What Happened in Vegas
Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters, and the making of modern Las Vegas.
Politics
Columns
Funny Business
The future of amusement is coming, and it’s surprisingly low-octane.
Giant Sucking Sounds
Amazon is devouring the music business.
Please Shill Me
Stale punk consciousness at its eponymous museum in Las Vegas.
Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel
The collapse of FTX broke the crypto omerta.
Many Revolutions
Telling the story of trans life online.
A poem about the way William Gibson would describe a hickey
The sky was the color of a first
fuck’s kiss,
going peach & sand to road rash red then
dusk ray green—
well her fetishistic implant leaden static over
dead-eyed fishnets
made him feel the translucence of flesh &
go over
w/ a line about the sky, a bleary
pavement of ...
10/11
It was Lisa’s birthday She turned 143
we celebrated with pretzels
and watched the Descendants of man
fishing [a] manmade lake
The water green the sky tender,
night trains. strawberries.
wind-stunted ...
heathkit tv 1980
what my father made and gave me, nouns:
transistor, fastening, capacitor. he was a sort
of sorcerer, wizard at building, his mind
a sleek machine of memory, rebuilt
from youthful chaos and some suffering
we didn’t discuss, just ...
The Javelina
I saw the javelina from afar
It looked familiar like a neighbor
eating rocks
at the edge of the grass, framed by the grass
and several barrels of patriotic flowers
The javelina’s front leg was ...
Come, Calamity
Render tender the shoots
of evening, let us in the lettuce
light, fitful as fish pumping
fistfuls of razored air, jagged
saws: tsk-tsk, cut-cut. Gleaners
in the gloaming—fuck that.
I was starving and far too far
from any lavender heroics.
There’s ...
GraftKings
Against the spread of the casino economy.