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Features

The Future Ain't What It Used To Be

by Flesh

Ideas have taken horrifying shape and rooted into our modern reality.

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Another Nobel Prize-Winning Author Describes Drunkenness

by El Destino

This book won a Pulitzer Prize. Here's its famous paragraph on getting drunk...

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Reviews

Every Parent's Worst Nightmare

by Baron Earl

"What do you do when your bright, loveable [sic], talented kid turns into a punker overnight? The Nelsons are about to find out." promises the tag line from The Day My Kid Went Punk, an ABC Afterschool Special from 1987.

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Does anyone care about being wrong about Appalachia?

by Baron Earl

Elizabeth Catte's new book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia promises to tell readers that whatever they learned from reading Hillbilly Elegy is wrong.

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Columns

Starky's Machine

Grace Dell Nichols

by Thom 'Starky' Stark

By now, you've undoubtedly learned of the death yesterday of Grace Dell Nichols - although you probably know her by her stage name, Nichelle Nichols - at the age of 89. Her son announced that she died of "natural causes," which is true of any decedent who isn't a victim of violence, infection, or accident, but she was institutionalized in 2019 because of dementia, and so the specific "natural cause" of her passing is, at present, undefined.

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Power Corrupts

Fear and Loathing on Planet Arkuat

by Arkuat

"I'd finally found Arkuat. Locked in a remote cabin, he was scrawling out his manifesto, where beer bottles shimmered over scattered bits of technology. I'm pretty sure he was building exploding duck decoys..."

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Interviews

Freaking Out the Normals with Nambla the Clown

by El Snatcher, Liquor Pig, Mr. Bad & Frankenstein Jones

Raconteur, clown, queer icon and all around weird dude-about-town Ggreg Taylor dropped by the shack to talk about his latest project.

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