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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Cruising Is A Memorial (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Pirate Television (opens the original)

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    I’ll be in motion in the meat world for a minute, so…enjoy a vintage, vertical slice from one little corner of the End of the World.How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Pirate Television was commissioned by Cypress College Art Gallery for the 2022 exhibition, The Pandemic Twitch, organized by Michael Hanson. It appears here in its original, 2022 version. HWG:PREFACE “...this is the sixth straight day of airstrikes and we are not able to get out to recover the dead.”</span

  3. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Jaye P. Morgan / The Gong Show / Gong Show(s) (opens the original)

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    When I was cast to be on ABC’s revival of the Gong Show in 2017, one of the producers asked me during my interview “If you could be gonged by any celebrity, who would it be?”My answer? Jaye P. Morgan.The woman on the other side of the screen paused. I had to explain to her who Jaye was. Maybe you don’t know who she was, either. The woman on the other side of the screen expected a more desperate answer, an answer that would reflect her own desires.The woman on the other side of the screen was pro

  4. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    Wildflowers / True Story (opens the original)

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    I’m in the deep middle of writing what has always felt like the final eulogy for a woman I once loved and whose stories and words live in my mouth. Those words will come. This is one of those stories. Some stories are flames we pass from heart to heart, like a torch.When the rollercoaster wouldn’t stop, and the cure for my rot made me sicker, and the hurt had become so great that two hearts circled like wolves in the most beautiful cottage that a sick girl and the whore she loved could afford, s

  5. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    Hot Takes: I Want Your Sex (opens the original)

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    We haven’t had one of these in a while. As a Gen X devotee of Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, the idea of him making a big late-career move with I Want Your Sex was, in the end, too good to be true.Here you go (yes there are spoilers):<source type

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