The American Dream

Little Camus: “Heaven is 4EVA”

My Cat Kafka Answers Life’s Difficult Questions

My cat Kafka tackles the philosophical questions that my Facebook friends are too lazy to answer for themselves. If you have my Facebook tag, please send my cat Kafka your questions as he will take time off between licking his paw and brushing the side of his head with it [...]

Star Suicide (Oh, What a Feeling!)

Art Review By Altos Le Brun The upside down method invented by Eduardo Avital —inspired by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes— links its meaning to its process. Are his paintings done in the normal fashion and then inverted after they are finished, or were they painted while the artist was sitting [...]

The Day We Explode

Poetry by Ivo Menzel Side A Frankly, I do not desire to accomplish much in life. I don’t strive for graduation diplomas, purple hearts, or man of the year awards. I don’t want to be a rock star or a movie star because I am not so insecure, I require [...]

The Bunny Pool

Poetry By Ivo Menzel How did I end up in a swimming pool full of bunny rabbits? Simple. I was pushed from a helicopter right into the furry thick of it. Next thing you know I exploded into them. Imagine a kid diving into one of those corrals full of [...]

An Air of Satisfaction

Poetry by Ivo Menzel On a summer afternoon, forty-five year old Viennese mathematician, Georg Brunner, carried his terrier from one corner to the other of the Burggarten. He strolled by many people and their dogs, strolled by students on picnics, sunny benches, and the statue of Mozart. He traveled the [...]

I Have Changed

25 Things I Learned in Paris

Pilgrimage by Andrea Vidic 1. In the city of love, men do not approach women, women do not approach men, and nobody approaches the Arabs or the Africans. 2. After banning smoking indoors, Parisians still smoke from morning till dawn the same number of cigarettes outdoors, and they exhale the [...]

Practical French for World Travelers

Languages & Travel by FC Gallo. This sample conversation will teach you some basic structures designed to help you get a date in French speaking countries, which after the end of the French colonial empire —I blame Charles de Gaulle— have decreased significantly in importance. Outside of the high and [...]

13 Motivational Posters for Someone You Hate (You)

by My Cat Kafka Motivation, Inspiration, Oh Just Die If you need it is because you don’t have it. If you don’t have it, then it is not within you. If it is not within, you don’t produce it. And if you acquire it from the outside Your body will [...]

I’d Pay To See That Again

Fiction by FC Gallo * I took these photographs (except for the first one) after my mother died. We lived in the house of Paseo de los Intelectuales since 1993, and it is the home in which I remember us being the happiest. Although I moved out in 1998 to [...]

The Book of Grudges: Genesis 19

A. Doris Becker and Father Renteria deal with the topic of incest in the Bible. The passage in question comes from Genesis 19 (Contemporary English version): 31One day his older daughter said to her sister, “Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry. 32Let’s [...]

The Politics of Life

Movie Review – No Man Left Behind

Film Festen by Jack Ole In No Man Left Behind, Alexander Heitinga’s first film since the lauded completion of his food trilogy (Crepes!, The Second Sandwich, Eggs and Retribution), students at Pillowbend Community College take their World Literature lessons from a wall calendar. Professor Ibrahimovic (the young veteran, Liam Upson) [...]