Around 2003 or so, an old boss and I took a side-trip on the way to a meeting to the church he attended. He was a bit younger than me, a devout evangelical Christian, a youth pastor and a pretty decent guy. He knew I didn’t share his particular brand of faith (full disclosure – [...]
We’re very excited to finally release our first episode of a new podcast series called “This Is The End!” Though the series will probably branch out to many different topics in the future, right now, much like the zine “This Is The End,” will center around an apocalyptic theme. The inaugural episode features two readings [...]
As many readers know, we’re part of a reading series each month called The Liquid Burning of Apocalyptic Bard Letters, hosted the second Thursday of each month at Matilda’s Baby Atlas Bar on the northside of Chicago. At our next reading, I will be doing an interactive piece which I hope to get some people [...]
File this under “not surprised:” The L.A. County Sherriff’s Department will begin using a smaller version of the Active Denial System to control inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center. The Assault Intervention Device stands at only 7.5” tall and will emit an invisible heat wave nearly 5 inches in diameter in a range of about [...]
Agent Robinson walked casually to his desk. It was 8:17 in the morning and though he was early for work, he felt as if the bureau chief would mock him for another tardy morning. By the time he strolled into the office downtown, plenty of agents were already at work. The building always buzzed with [...]
The story of Steve Slater, the flight attendant who made a dramatic exit from his profession via an airplane intercom and an emergency slide has already been beat to death in the media. He’s part folk hero, part stressed out employee who took things to far, part lawbreaker. Slater’s actions, be they over the top [...]
Remember London’s call to its citizens to paw through each other’s trash, looking for suspicious materials? Or the numerous times in America politicians have told us in not so subtle ways to keep a watchful and suspicious eye on our neighbors? Now, thanks to the Illinois State Police, trash collectors have been deputized in the [...]
Lately, I haven’t had so much time to put together regularish posts, but that doesn’t mean I’m not reading or shaking my fist at current events somewhere. Plenty of other bloggers and writers do this, so why should I miss out on the chance? You want to know what I’m reading and what I think [...]
Newt Gingrich, like many other Americans on the far right, has a problem with Mosques, more specifically the planned Islamic community center near Ground Zero. This doesn’t come as a shock in the least, his reasoning (H/T Justin Elliott at Salon) is that there aren’t any churches in Saudi Arabia and also, New [...]
