One Man’s Homage to His Beloved Pair of Sneakers

by Jules Bleach

I was born into this world bright red, kicking & screaming. From the loving, caring hands of an elderly Asian lady working three different jobs just to be able to feed her children after a fifteen hour shift.  I was one child she would not have to bear the burden of raising. From the moment of my creation, I was taken from my mothers hands and passed down a long line, placed in a crib of sorts & shipped off to another country. After what seemed an eternity of sharing my cabin space with numerous others that looked just like myself (yet came in a vast variety of different shades & sizes like some kind of multicultural gathering), we had arrived at our destination. I had at this stage expected we’d all be headed to the same place, yet upon our arrival some gruff ugly men in horrible bright yellow jackets split us all up. I was once again put in a dark box and carried off to some unknown destination.

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by Christine Dinh

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. – Kim Pine, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

It’s hard to hold back your inner Julie Powers or Regina George, sometimes. Life is full of difficult people. Some you can avoid. But then there are those you can’t, like bosses, coworkers, clients, friends, family members, your girlfriend’s evil exes, etc. We all can’t tell an aircraft of passengers to go fuck themselves before making a grand exit down the emergency slide with two bottles of beer in hand or be even bold enough to tell a boss they’re the reason we’re quitting.

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by Alana Joy

[Bloo Suicide in Like An Open Book]

➲ What are you reading right now?

by Pandie Suicide

Getting signed is at the top of a lot of bands to-do lists. It marks the pinnacle of their careers, a sign that you’re really ‘making it.’ But with things the way that they are in this digital age, the whole industry structure of record labels, who historically found bands and other artists, signed them for a (sometimes) nice advance, then released, promoted, and distributed the album (or at least oversaw all of this happening)… has changed.

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Pia Suicide in Fluor Love

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• HOBBIES: bicycling
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: weed! beer! sex! chocolate! tea!
• VICES: weed
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME:smoking and making love

By Nicole Powers

You may not recognize his name, but as the man who figured out how to make online adult entertainment pay, Chris Mallick has had a profound effect on our world. “Third-party billing” is not exactly a sexy phrase, but the concept Mallick masterminded revolutionized the way the invisible masses achieved satisfaction, and gave e-commerce its kick-start.

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by Andrew E. Konietzky

* This review is for the ORIGINAL version and not the ‘Merican version.

Tomas Alfredson’s film has been marketed over here as a pretty standard horror film, but I wouldn’t classify it as horror. There are horrific elements of course, but the film is more than that. It is a coming-of-age film and a love story. It is also a film about loneliness, resilience, and the pain of being a kid.

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