BRUISER

Three poems by Emily Van Ryn Oct 30, 2024 Poetry

"Retrograde," "The Other Woman" & "Bullet"

AN EVENING WITH MUSCLE, BALACLAVA AND THE JULIA SET [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 29, 2024 Columns

Tim soothes the Sunday Scaries with a great gig at Holy Frijoles. Photos by Sam Levin & Jon Hughen.

Four poems by Chris Mason Oct 25, 2024 Poetry

"3 New Elephant Calls," "Normals," "Highway Luck" & "Well Water"

JOURNAL (takes #18, #22, #29) by nat raum Oct 24, 2024 Poetry

dear diary, i wonder how those gnome sculptures sitting by that stream in the peaks of otter are doing today — they look so elated in every

Two poems by Geo McCandlish Oct 23, 2024 Poetry

"Crow Talks" and "Times When My Dad’s Ghost Scatters Through My Body Like A Stream of Cosmic Debris"

AN EVENING AT WAX ATLAS [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 22, 2024 Columns

I recently had the chance to meet up with some old friends and check out the new Wax Atlas. Wax Atlas is not new, but they are now in a new

BRUISER DISPATCH: A Night of Experimental Film + Music + Animation Oct 18, 2024 Nonfiction

Alex Lei covers Matt Barry's 10/11/2024 film happening at Normals

TEXARKANABAMA'S REVENGE by Mike Itaya Oct 17, 2024 Fiction

Last Wednesday, Ms. Wanda had soured on me inside our love lair, Room 122 of the Lewd Dude Motel. In a pique of passion, Ms. Wanda hopped off our

HEAD: A HISTORY by Alicia Potee Oct 16, 2024 Poetry

Medusa’s clutch gushed out of her neck’s sleeping nest like a secret. Spray of feathers — twin bastards of a sea that took what it wanted, gave

TRIPPER "FACELESS" EP RELEASE [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 15, 2024 Columns

Tim wades back into the morass of Baltimore hardcore

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL DISPATCH by Alex Lei Oct 11, 2024 Nonfiction

Stalwart film writer Alex Lei on NYFF and Robina Rose's 1981 film NIGHTSHIFT

WOOD by Georgia-May Stone Oct 10, 2024 Fiction

To: [email protected] From: [email protected] 22 July 2024 at 14:34 Hey girl heyyyy! I hope you’re having the BEST time in Costa Rica.

RUPERT CRASH by Tempest Miller Oct 9, 2024 Poetry

breadwinner eating limeys the English off their ships and coming home and Rupert Crash back home rrrrr crash he sticks Q-tips in his ears

WHICH BAND SHOULD PLAY WHEN? [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 8, 2024 Columns

In my prior band, many years ago, as conversations began over the evening’s set order, the drummer would make sure it was known: we, The Legendary

FOR THE LOVE OF THE MASK by Michael Zunenshine Oct 4, 2024 Fiction

I was content, hibernating in my apartment after a breakup I didn’t see coming and wasn’t ready for, streaming B-horror flicks on Tubi and

Two Poems by Rob Kempton Oct 3, 2024 Poetry

"This Tiger I Keep Seeing Doesn't Remember Me" & "Thoughts at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday"

TOUCH by Tori McCandless Oct 2, 2024 Poetry

Do you want this? A voice coming toward you. Toward, you think, is a direction that implies encounter or at least energetic force. Are we always

YOUR FIRST SCENE REPORT [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 1, 2024 Columns

You are in a basement in Pasadena, Maryland in a house off Goose Neck Road. The basement is large but spare and well kept. It is Friday, March 19th,

HALF TIME by Dan Williams Sep 26, 2024 Fiction

You see it’s all about strategy, strategy! Long, short, tall, thin, wide, fat, spiked, smooth, ridged, ballooned - it’s strategy. Strategy,

JAKE DEPREE AND THE CASTLE OF WORMS by Andrew Buckner Sep 25, 2024 Fiction

The chateau de vers, or the Castle of Worms, sat on a mountain of bodies and bones eaten by the title invertebrates in La Mort Valley, Paris,