White Girl Wasted – Amanda Manitach
Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:39 — 0 Comments
Amanda Manitach is one of The Monarch’s favorite people, visual artists and thinkers. Over the past few months, Amanda has been posting hand-drawn pictures of drunk girls with graphic t-shirts that we absolutely adore. She writes, “These were inspired by (among other things) some t-shirt companies based in LA, vibrators, found phrases on dumpsters, the fact I have always had penis envy and don’t love my pubic hair but don’t think that makes me a bad feminist. (My list of ten things that suck about having a dick probably does, but to be fair, that list was generated by a […]
The Home of the Mighty
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 23:01 — 0 Comments
Solidarity is weird stuff. It belongs to no one. It’s between us. It means you’d die for your people. It means you have nothing to believe in but those people. Things used to be about the ruin porn and welcome to fold city, now it’s welcome to the Home of the Mighty. We used to live in a culture that told us to be ordinary, to be ok, to hate our jobs, to get by. Nobody was telling us to be great. Corporate advertisements told us we could be great if we bought their shit, but their shit was just that, and […]
On Robin Williams
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 14:11 — 0 Comments
Caleb Thompson and I have talked for a couple of years now about the idea of having a confidant: a friend, someone you can tell your secrets to, your doubts, your worries, your mistakes, whatever those things are that you want to express but think you wouldn’t otherwise be able to. The kind of person who would be comfortable seeing you, intellectually-speaking at least, naked.Â
Old Yellow Couch – Benjamin Soileau
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:50 — 2 Comments
So I come out the bathroom and I see that little fool doing sit-ups with his feet stuck up under my mamma’s armoire. I can hear all the china rattling around in there each time he pulls himself up.
Three (but really Six) Songs To The Head vol. 14
Monday, August 11, 2014 10:42 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three (but this time six!) songs that moved us, three (six!) songs we love, three (six1) songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Lydia Ramsey, Sebastian and the Deep Blue, In Cahoots, The Mama Rags, Susy Sun and Theoretics. Enjoy!Â
A Lesson in Parataxis Provided By Mary Collins And Faithfully Transcribed by Jim Brantingham
Monday, August 11, 2014 9:49 — 1 Comment
Mary was a bartender. On this afternoon she brought a half liter of beer to each of two guys at the bar. Introductions were made.
Women Against Street Harassment: Relinquishing Victimhood for Light – Piper Daniels
Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:09 — 0 Comments
I’d like to begin, if I may, with an act of imagination.
An Interview With Liza Keckler Of Screaming Flea
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:28 — 0 Comments
Screaming Flea’s VP of program development, Liza Keckler, graced The Monarch with some time to chat about her company’s strategies, how they work with the city of Seattle to produce content and how Skype is ruining her day!
The Man Who Couldn’t Hold His Own Cigarette – Timothy Schirmer
Monday, August 4, 2014 10:05 — 1 Comment
It used to be that whenever I lit a cigarette, this man I was sleeping with would smoke half of it without it ever leaving my fingers. He would take hold of my wrist and bring the cigarette up to his parted lips like a child taking a big sip from a straw that led into a cup his mother was holding.  At parties, people thought this was something to talk about, how the man I slept with didn’t like to hold his own cigarettes.  A woman I didn’t know remarked, “What happens when your girlfriend is away? I mean, […]
For Palestine – Mindie Lind
Thursday, July 31, 2014 13:06 — 0 Comments
Mindie Lind’s band Inly leaves us Monarchians in chills, sweats, tears, love. So when she reached out to us to say she’d written a new song, of course we were eager to hear it. Not only that, but its message is of peace – a resolution toward understanding the simple facts: don’t you know we’re here to die; don’t you know we’re here to live? Mindie provided a little language as to why she wrote this particular song, which you can read, hear, digest, love, below.Â
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
Book Release and Reading Feb. 6
January 6th, 2016
Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]
