"Drones Drones Drones" by Aaron Roman May 2, 2024 Poetry Drones drones drones mimic pure tiger code as the soldiers dig their heels in time, ready for forever violence as spider-y explosions line their Review: White Paint Falling Through a Filtered Shaft by Adam Johnson May 2, 2024 Poetry & Criticism Colin Gee reviews the 2022 collection from poet Adam Johnson "Buckskin Jacket." by Noam Hessler May 1, 2024 Poetry I was so young, outside the VFW. There was a drift of snow, outside the VFW, and when I was fifteen I’d lie in that drift spread-eagle, my feathers A User's Guide to Universal Order of Armageddon (Numero 221) [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 30, 2024 Columns Tim's notes on Numero Group's double vinyl release of the indispensible Baltimore hardcore band's underappreciated catalog. "Sepulcherality" by Cora Kircher Apr 26, 2024 Poetry I have a good example: it was on Saturday my mother and I picking out grave plots next to each other in the natural burial section of the Rosendale “Barricade” by Will Marsh Apr 25, 2024 Fiction This morning, God shows up at my parents’ house, and before I can even open the front door, he’s rattling off instructions: “We cut strips from an from Saturn Returns by Ashley E Walters Apr 24, 2024 Visual Art & Poetry selections from Walters' mixed-media zine Fear Eats the Soul: Reflections on a Masterpiece Apr 11, 2024 Nonfiction Rhys Delany digs into Fassbinder's 1974 drama Ali: Fear Eats the Soul BRUISER ZINE 004: Saturn Returns by Ashley E Walters Apr 10, 2024 Google searches are poems. Spam emails are poems. Being lost is a poem. Everything reflects some part of me back to myself. It’s all kind of embarrassing. Tape World: O.K. Let's Rock with... Nirvana Apr 9, 2024 Columns Tim returns to Tape World to examine a mysterious Nirvana bootleg "Deconsecrators" by Terence Hannum Apr 5, 2024 Fiction a story from Hannum's collection Our Dead Age, a companion piece to Locrian's new album End Terrain. "Pottery Fragment, early 21st century" by Jennifer Stark Apr 4, 2024 Fiction You kill the ignition and pull on your waders, crunch the stones along the foreshore of the river. We see you looking. We see you with your hands on Review: Semibegun's Shitty Music on Tape and I Loved You a Lot Apr 4, 2024 Music & Criticism Jordan Barger dives into the new cassette from Heather Mease's multifaceted Semibegun project "Octopus Facts" by Chris Heavener Apr 3, 2024 Fiction Best practice is to tell a new recruit about the octopuses when his first assignment is already underway, the shoreline shrinking into the horizon. On the Importance of Infrastructure [Anything for a Weird Life] Apr 2, 2024 Columns Tim illuminates the importance of our unseen support structures "The Executive Pool" by Steve Gergley Mar 29, 2024 Fiction There is an Olympic-size swimming pool in the shape of a silver dollar located on the roof of Lenny’s Manhattan office building. During lunch, "There is a Flame Called the Endless Night" by Juliette Sandoval Mar 28, 2024 Poetry Even now I know that I have savoured the hot taste of life Lifting green cups and gold at the great feast Just for a small and a forgotten time — "Gigantopedia" by Alexander Gradus Mar 27, 2024 Fiction Before I was born I was a minuscule thing. I remember it as plants remember the soil. I heard the world as thrums in the earth. It was still a hum Review: Smog Mother by John Wall Barger Mar 27, 2024 Poetry & Criticism a deep dive into Barger's 2023 collection by S.G. Mallett Spring Break Scene Report [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 26, 2024 Columns Tim surveys some of the Baltimore music that deserves your attention