America's Most Critical Journal since 1999
Italian luxury fashion house Gucci recently introduced an ultraexpensive umbrella that, oddly enough, isn’t waterproof. According to the company, it is meant as a fashion statement…a collector’s item. Strange as it seems, on the designer’s website ... More »
By Sean Kenealy “My name’s Roy and I destroy!” I know, it’s a silly slogan, but it turns heads and it’s helped me get ahead in this crazy business. Need a TV destroyed? I got you. Need a couch destroyed? No problem. I even did a refrigerator once in ... More »
America as a notion can be defined as a single word. Most days that word is: Meatloaf gasoline hamburgers Cher or Batman others days it’s cowgirl sunglasses alligator spandex motel though those allegations are unproven. America is a saxophone that denies eve... More »
By Martin H. Levinson Melancholia was the daughter of Polemius, the God of Adhesives, and Daphne, the Goddess of Grape Juice. She was the offspring of an unhappy union, for when she was a babe she was glued to her highchair by her father who then struck her mo... More »
One Lexus May Hide Another By Linda Boroff (With acknowledgements to One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch and Caesar’s Gallic Wars, interlinear translation) In a poem, one line may hide another line, In a non-disclosure agreement, one clause might hide... More »
By Steve Provizer Unfortunately, I recently had to spend a lot of time at a rehab facility, visiting my mom. Caretakers came and went, but the TV set was ever faithful. I had the chance to re-acquaint myself with one of the fundamental American religious ritua... More »
By Andrew Kuhn 5 December 2016 Vanity, vanity, all is vanity— Or countertop, or cabinet, Or sit-down all-stone shower-bath With pulsing sensurround adjustable flow— But even these: vanities, all. For in the showroom of the world All things are as floor sam... More »
PALO ALTO – For many Apple consumers, the long delay between product releases from the Cupertino, California hardware giant is proving harmful to their emotional well-being. John Roswell, 28, of San Francisco lamented: “I haven’t been able to lord my... More »