Stay Relevant
Written by Gabe Shapiro
Illustrations by Micah Liesenfeld
On the frontlines of our burgeoning info economy.
(Yes, it’s a medium-sized chunk of humor.)
Gabe
P A L L I D P L A C E B O
Written by Gabriel Shapiro
Graphics by David Higgins
Is total mediation your goal?
Provocateur No. 1
Written By Gabriel Shapiro
Photographs by Chaim Nazeer
“They were trying to be The Jam. We were aiming more at being the Sex Pistols.”
Summer Guestbook
Art by Kathryn Norton-Remillard
Written by Gabriel Shapiro
Summer rentals often come equipped with a prominently placed journal wherein guests can leave their thoughts on their lodging experiences. The below entries are from a very small, hut-like structure on Cape Cod.
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A gift of faces
Drawings by Charles Hunt
As time passes, I realize more and more that I am not just Old School but Old World. Overall, I greatly prefer the analog life. I want to be in direct contact with people and places and things, as opposed to witnessing the world in externally mediated ways. I prefer to walk in the woods rather than watching someone else do so via the internet or another of the multitudinous and voracious reality interlopers.
Self-Parodying Institutions
By Gabriel Shapiro
We must hold our society’s venerated institutions to higher standards. They occupy much indulged positions that bring them many attendant rewards; consequently, they must continually prove worthy of such regard and accord. There are many institutions in this position, but the following ones must be subjected to even higher expectations by us all: education, healthcare, religion.
P r e a m b l e
Dear Reader,
I have spent a good amount of time planning how I would introduce a magazine such as this to people such as you. I am relieved that I will not burden you with those highly elaborated notions. In a sudden, bracing instant, they evinced ethereal, unattached as they were to any particular publication.