Volume 16 Issue 6
Surrogate Cocks, Inc.
It happens to a lot of men. You meet a beautiful girl, and for some reason you can’t divine, she’s attracted to you. You get to know her, take turns putting your mouths in unspeakably awkward places, establish sides of the bed.
Hock Talk
Pawnshops in Canada aren't all that different from those in the US, but for whatever reason finding a chatty pawnbroker was like chiseling a dead body out of concrete.
A Living, Breathing Philosopher
Simon Critchley is renowned for his groundbreaking ethical reading of the deconstructionist movement (that’s an important thing, even if you have no idea what it means).
Feudal Delusions
This past spring North Korea test-fired yet another Taepodong missile over Japan. It was the third such launch in just over a decade.
Asher Levine Has Balls (as If You Couldn’t Tell)
"Workout gear is just so bland. I want to go to the gym and wear something sexy and fun. To me, life really shouldn’t be anything but fun and sexy!"
The Eyes Have It
Photographer Aaron Huey recently traveled to the Islamic nation of Yemen. While there, he had the chance to photograph and chat with some young Yemeni women who wear the traditional Islamic niqab or burka.
Hock Talk
Berlin is poor and filthy, and nearly everyone lives on welfare. When the state assistance dries up, the whole city runs to the one pawnshop chain that operates a virtual monopoly on hocked goods.
War Is Hell, And Hell Sucks
It’s about as clichéd to call a war book “harrowing” as it is to call a movie about a handicapped guy overcoming the odds a “triumph,” but I’ll be damned if this book didn’t harrow me out big-time.
Hock Talk
The most recent store opening coincided with an uptick in the poor-people-selling-their-cherished-belongings business.
Smoking Hot Mummies
The process is careful, thorough, and loaded with ritualistic bearing—in addition to memorializing lost pals and family members, it’s an equally restorative, if macabre, ceremony for those who remain.
Ripping The Universe A New One
Last September, the opportunistic hypochondriacs who control the global media tried to convince us that the end of the universe was coming. This turned out to be an exaggeration.
Hock Talk
Berlin is poor and filthy, and nearly everyone lives on welfare. When the state assistance dries up, the whole city runs to the one pawnshop chain that operates a virtual monopoly on hocked goods.