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BRUISER ZINE 001: girl poems by Anna K. Crooks
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Tape World: Evil Spirits S/T Cassette [Anything for a Weird Life]
Nov 28, 2023
Columns
Tim's Proustian remembrance of Baltimore Past, spurred by a 2009 noise-sludge cassette
"Warpig" by Anthony Neil Smith
Nov 27, 2023
Fiction
Warpig don’t care what you think of his mullet. People here in Minnesota call it “hockey hair” but Warpig never gave one shit about hockey except
The Thanksgiving Truce Holds...for Now [Anything for a Weird Life]
Nov 21, 2023
Columns
It is that time of the year again. The “last show for a while” local band shows have happened, the “in town for the holidays” one-off shows are
Two girl poems by Anna K. Crooks
Nov 20, 2023
Poetry
These pieces come from girl poems, Anna’s debut collection and the first volume of the BRUISER Zine series. Preorders for girl poems are open NOW.
BRUISER ZINE 001: girl poems by Anna K. Crooks
Nov 20, 2023
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"Eve's Inner Witness is Not a Monster" by Dipti Anand
Nov 17, 2023
Fiction
On a winter night stitched together with dark clouds shrouding like funeral fabric, Eve shudders under a sizzling gas heater, intercepting the
"The Stupid Railroad" by Addison Zeller
Nov 15, 2023
Fiction
I could complain, but it’s usually light work—not always, but usually: really, if we sat down, it’d be completely bearable, but we stand on this
"Vicus Cracti" by Some Fool
Nov 14, 2023
Fiction
excerpt from The Latten Legend, Liber I
When Should Your Band Break Up? [Anything for a Weird Life]
Nov 14, 2023
Columns
Bands break up. Tim surveys the possibilities.
"Tutto Passa" by Carson Jordan
Nov 13, 2023
Poetry
it’s a blessing and a curse to be moved by nothing haphazardly, my leasts come of it that night, I call up to the woman with the art deco
"White Mercedes/Faith Healer" by Sy Holmes
Nov 10, 2023
Fiction
The white Mercedes was in the driveway, under the Catalpa trees. It was a muggy spring night, and the seed pods had been blown down all over
"Goddess of fire" by Cait Quirk
Nov 9, 2023
Poetry
When Eve discovered fire, she rubbed her hands together with such force that the bark remnants of tree-climbing leisure ignited with a spark that
"Shit We Don't Need" by SH Woodgeard
Nov 8, 2023
Fiction
Ginger brings us things. Things we don’t want. Things we don’t need. Carburetor parts. Costume jewelry. Bratz dolls. In the dim morning hours,
See You at The Bean: Impressions of Tripper's EP Release Show [Anything for a Weird Life]
Nov 7, 2023
Columns
You know a Baltimore venue has come into its own when it has a nickname.
"After not dying" by Alex Shiflett
Nov 6, 2023
Nonfiction
notes on surviving a bus crash
"Four Men" by Noam Hessler
Nov 3, 2023
Poetry
Four haiku linked by a vignette
Two stories by Sean Ennis
Nov 2, 2023
Fiction
"You Don't Own Me" & "The Old Rats"
"First World Problems" by Jon Doughboy
Nov 1, 2023
Fiction
To every one of my complaints, usually about the noise of her son slamming Pogs on the coffee table or our shoddy brake pads shrieking to be changed
Tape World: Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation [Anything for a Weird Life]
Oct 31, 2023
Columns
Tim remembers a 1989 cassette purchase
All This Time You Thought I Was Good: Devin Lunsford and Mark Wadley in Collaboration
Oct 30, 2023
Visual Art & Interviews
Notes on photography and the grotesque from a long drive along the back roads to Sand Mountain, Alabama
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