Dallas Area Rapid Transit – Michael Nagel
Thursday, March 7, 2013 12:07 — 1 Comment
My first night in this apartment I laid awake listening to the rail bells ring, thinking I would never sleep again. The bells rang when the train came and when it left, every seven minutes, and I stared at my ceiling for hours wondering why I’d never noticed how loud this city was. Now I’ve lived here three years and I can’t hear the bells anymore. They’ve become part of my silence. I sleep just fine.Â
Kelly Nutley
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 16:04 — 0 Comments
We are followed in life by memory. It’s the bags we travel with. Good or bad we label and tag them, attach them to our path and drag them with us as we walk, trudge, stroll and fly through life. We depend on these carefully packaged items to form a picture of ourselves. But, what if this precious cargo was lost, not by intent but by the airlines of neurons that we depend on to ship, carry and move us to our connecting flights, forced by time and age. Kelly’s work is almost overtly subjective. It is like the ambience […]
The Ruins – Piper Daniels
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 12:48 — 0 Comments
There were things neighbors wouldn’t notice about the two-story cedar on Pierce Street. Things beyond the bright teal door, garlanded by evergreens and, in the spring, deep purple impatiens (also known as touch-me-nots) peeking shyly from beds of mulch. Â
The Mess Before The Fast – Jason Graff
Monday, March 4, 2013 10:43 — 0 Comments
Washed out brokers pilfered gold chains from around the necks of some pool table’s gambier obsessed denizens by the lampless shade a few crumbs ago. Twiddling their escape thimbles, they hillocked a silvery verge.Â
What Is It That Happens – Sheryl Noethe
Thursday, February 28, 2013 17:50 — 0 Comments
1. Something happens, nothing is said.Â
Wimps: A Strident Celebration
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:12 — 0 Comments
Like a Midwesterner two pitchers deep, Seattle slacker punks, Wimps, drop the definite article. Wimps, not to be confused with The Wimps (a 70s London power pop group and what sounds like a teen sex romp comedy starring Michael Cera), announced their presence in early 2012 with a self-released five song EP. Packed with a clangorous, snotty charm it sounds as if it was recorded live with minimal takes (it almost certainly was) and Wimps quickly proved themselves to be a welcome addition to the Seattle scene.Â
Desert Places – Fonda Fan
Thursday, February 21, 2013 13:01 — 0 Comments
“Spare change, spare change†came the litany.
Red Jacket Mine
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:38 — 2 Comments
Want to be in a good mood? Just listen to this song: “Ron Nastyâ€. It is one of the 11 tracks on Red jacket Mine’s new LP, Someone Else’s Cake. The song’s humor will have you swaying and smiling. “He’s a particular brand of aloof,†the playful lyrics begin, “with a tenuous grasp of the truth. And he don’t like you!â€
SHANGRI-LA DEFINED
Monday, February 18, 2013 11:44 — 0 Comments
A couple years ago I infiltrated the Juggalo Family in an event called “The Gathering of the Juggalosâ€, where 20,000 followers of the Insane Clown Possee congregate, dress up in outfits and act, basically, depraved. The Juggalos are followers of ICP, Psychopathic Records and a genre of music called “Wicked Shitâ€. Wicked Shit uses violent, gory and excremental lyrics to teach the message of the Dark Carnival, a Judeo-Christian type of faith that came to Insane Clown Posse member Violent J in a vision that consisted of evil clowns leading the path to Shangri-La as the earth went down in […]
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 […]
