Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #44: HOW YOU GET UNSTUCK:
[...]I hung up the phone feeling like my sternum had cracked open. Before I could even take a breath, in walked the girl whose mother’s boyfriend repeatedly almost drowned her with the garden hose in the back yard. She sat down in the chair near my desk where all the girls sat narrating ( Read more... )

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I spent last night at Lung's place being wined and dined with David and Claire and writing a glossy, shiny happy proposal article for Reader's Digest about Slab City, where we were staying by the Salton Sea. Considering that Slab City is essentially a small town comprised of poor and crazy people pushed out to the ultimate margins of society, it ( Read more... )

This is what I feel victim of:"It had been stressful. The most difficult and trying thing I had ever done. We had pulled it off, gotten the damn thing in the can. I learned new things about the nature of stress. Arbitrary try-again-next-time school stress versus real grown-up you-can't-unfuck this stress. Hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars of ruin- ( Read more... )

This is wonderful to know about.

People bored with the harmless beige, non-threatening and bland.


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I came across this article whilst wandering found_objects and I post it here becase of the content related to the over eroticizing of children that it permeating our present culture. I believe that societies obsession with stamping out child pornography and related has created and is further creating an unhealthy obsession of the child as a sexual being ( Read more... )