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Fresh New Eyes & Last Goodbyes: On Brainiac's "Electro-shock for President"

Fresh New Eyes & Last Goodbyes: On Brainiac’s “Electro-shock for President”

Brainiac's last recording, "Electro-shock for President" turns 20 this Saturday. We take a look back at this amazing, underappreciated band's history and wonder where they could have gone next.
Top 5 Things You Really Don’t Care About But The Title Is Fucking Catchy So You’ll Waste 20 Minutes Anyway

Top 5 Things You Really Don’t Care About But The Title Is Fucking Catchy So You’ll Waste 20 Minutes Anyway

Anything to liberate you from the lackluster task of sitting in an office, staring at a computer screen for eight hours. And now you're stuck in that beautiful limbo of useless, attractive information saturation that you will promptly forget on the train ride home.
What Will Black Friday Become When We No Longer Need It?

What Will Black Friday Become When We No Longer Need It?

The irony of immediately following a reverent day set aside for family and gratefulness with a day filled with consumerism and greed is lost on many. But it’s not enough for the chaos to remain self-contained.
Statement of the Kennel Killer

Statement of the Kennel Killer

It was kind of weird putting bodies in garbage bags. it’s not as easy as you would think, even though most of these animals were less than half my size. And corpses are floppy, which, when you’re trying to gracefully slide a creature that was just euthanized into a 40-gallon trash bag from Home Depot,...
An esoteric but brief epistemological diversion

An esoteric but brief epistemological diversion

I once wrote a romantic portrait of my own suicide.