Volume 15 Issue 10
A Guy Who Was A Test-tube Baby
Around 30 years ago, some guy jerked off into a cup and the sperm was frozen until a team of doctors dethawed it and injected it into some lady's egg that was in a petri dish or something.
Mike Leigh
I’ve been watching Mike Leigh’s movies for almost 20 years and every time I see a new one I have a fantasy conversation with him afterward.
Three Older Kids We Thought Were Cool In High School
Memories of tattoos, hardcore, and breaking into classrooms.
A Couple Of Hippies Who Think They Can Get Plants To Play Music
Founded in 1975, Damanhur is a self-sufficient and eco-friendly commune located amid the rolling hills and the exclusive rehab clinics in the valley of Val Chiusella, outside Turin, Italy.
A Chaos Magician
In the mid-70s two guys named Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin claimed the ability to alter the subatomic interactions of the quantum universe through gnosis and divination.
Robert Pollard
The great thing about Robert Pollard is that while he seems pretty pragmatic and passionate about his songwriting and Guided by Voices legacy, he's also kind of fuck-off about it. He's a 50-year-old grandpa who calls his new band Boston Spaceships...
My Big Sister, Who Sang For A Hardcore Band...
New Jersey-based hardcore band Fast Times was around during the mid-90s and my sister Alison was the singer.
Ian Hislop
For those of you without taste or eyes, Private Eye is a fortnightly satirical newsprint magazine that contains more actual news than all the other British newspapers they made during the two weeks it takes to put their issue together.