(Have you ever read Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style? He tells the same story in different ways. Each version of) Some Skinhead Shit (this short story explores different literary tropes: notation…) By: Jacob Singer (word game, and visual. See, each and every short story consists of making a million little decisions on what to show […]
“…the message is about not what works musically now, for a certain demographic, for a short while, but about what might work for everyone for all time.” –Rick Moody, I Dared Criticize Taylor Swift “…by rendering their traditional job of arbitration obsolete, it frees critics to find other ways of contemplating music.” – Carl Wilson, […]
Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Metaphysics is that, despite the Universe, it somehow manages to take itself seriously. When I say ‘Metaphysics’ here, I mean two things: 1) the legacy of those Great Bearded Thinkers whose psychic concepts and guttural neologisms have been preserved in the spiritual brine of academic pretense, 2) the white-smock’d tradition of speculation, investigation, and Latin […]
Some Skinhead Shit: (Cut in half/1,242 words) (Read Parts 1 and 2 here.) David laughed at Laurence’s joke and buzzed the call box. It was December 21st and they were heading to a holiday party. They were given two instructions, bring a case of good beer and wear an obnoxious holiday sweater. The call box […]
(Nobody wants to read more than five pages online. That’s the only reason I broke the story into two parts. That question seemed like a natural place to break the story in half. Read Part 1 here.) Part II of “Some Skinhead Shit” “We could go ask around and ask some people at the party […]
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