Residents and workers shout from out of the windows of their high rises in solidarity with the protest.
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Bedwaters
“He knew that feeling, his lungs filling up with the glycerin-like fluid of a new day, and himself gargling and grasping for regular air, the air in his bed, the air with the windows closed. He felt small, and had tried imagining other people’s windows, but felt weird because he couldn’t comprehend the number of…
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Consider the Cuy
“Unlike the classic chicken breast, however, the cuy goes from farmhouse to fridge to spit to butcher block to plate in a way that is probably more humane, yet also more graphic, and thus more disturbing. Guinea pigs are cute; cuy, as it turns out, is tasty.”
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Spring March 24
I Now daffodils bloom in watercolor spirit Skies of tender pastel blend into the lingering warmth of caramel breaths in the air. A girl sighs in the distance, going somewhere, smiling occasionally, scowling sometimes at the cherry blossoms or the green grass. She looks at something with hope and worry, maybe about to lose…
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Nass Lists: Primal Urges During My Seminar
We all know the feeling: you’re sitting in your seminar when suddenly you’re overcome by an all-consuming desire to… Crack open my ballpoint pen and drink the ink like it’s a flask Drink a bottle of water like it’s filled with vodka and cause a whole scene for nothing Hit my vape Pull out a…
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Dylan is the New Dante
“More than anything, Dylan and Dante share an unbroken sense of pity for the ‘ill-begotten souls’ of hell. Both in the position of outsiders looking-in, this subversion of time, space, and reality is what makes hell so mystical, and this carnival of characters is what makes hell so unsettling.”
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April Showers: Full Design
This week, the Nass hassles its way into a Miami club, where the room smells like gasoline and the music sounds like Dante.
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Do You Know Him?
“The college world of connections, in my experience, warrants a different type of hassle though. You don’t lick cafeteria floors or have to humiliate yourself to get what you want. It’s more of making the effort of putting yourself out there, of making friends, meeting people, joining clubs.”
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The Personal Politics of the Draft: Nass Recommends Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory
What we can learn from a literary giant’s process of creation.
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On Memories, the Olfactory, and Untimely Death
Minutes before death, a writer reflects upon his life in smells.
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wearing weighted blankets
first semester, i read and wrote and p-setted, claimed dual residency in forbes and ncw so i could eat until my mouth and stomach begged “no more,” got home everyday to lovely humans who never fail to make me laugh and that hasn’t changed since second semester. but second semester, i’m wearing weighted blankets …
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things i could remember
blue cheese root beer jukeboxes servals william howard taft blue footed boobies whale sharks hash slinging slasher triple trapeze john wayne gacy the movie baby geniuses 2015 four loko gold crossfit delta 8 ipod nano (on which I once watched the movie baby geniuses) meat lovers pizza roller skating suspenders my aunt’s birthday squid the…
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Fun Fact: Rocky/Mathey Trivia is Downright Cutthroat
Tensions run high at the Wednesday-night event.
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