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popop\/\/triple exxxistentialism

By paul boshears

It’s a bit embarrassing – nothing can date you faster than not keeping abreast (pun grenade) of the latest names in pop culture: barely squeaked in there with Lady Gaga, but I definitely showed-up late to the party with Sasha Grey (the pun detonates). Not until The Girlfriend Experience was at the local video... »

the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps \/\/ intro with squalor

By chicken flava

Wunderbar! And welcome to the first installment of The Bleeps, the Sweeps, and the Creeps at the avant guardian. Bleepin’ Sweepin and Creepin’ all over your interface. I am the one called Chicken Flava. I appreciate all sounds, or the absence thereof. Please also know that from here on out, your Friday afternoons will... »

grey

By eileen garcia

“Step steps Follow my blind Inside My self The secret grows” -Antony & The Johnsons »

how to be perfect… in six quintillion easy steps

By mfsandler

Ben Franklin said a lot of funny things. On his inability to remain a strict vegetarian: “So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do.”  It’s incredible that such an ironic man is the... »

all cats are spalding gray

By ari g

One of the worst arguments I had with my ex-girlfriend was about the death of Spalding Gray, an experimental performance artist/storyteller who was famous for his long intricately woven stories and his involvement with The Wooster Group.  This is not the place for the details of the argument.  It is enough to know that... »

gonna wash that grey right into your hair

By c. ritchey

From women who go grey naturally to those that are coloring it, silver-hued locks are becoming a fashion scene staple. Will women be going to the salon and asking for “grey-lights” instead of high-lights?  Will you have to worry about your non-grey roots coming in?  Although I don’t see this happening in the near future,... »

grey cat gumbo

By obsidian blade

Everyone is a slave. You, me, your boss, your spouse, your kids, your parents, your senator, your president… everyone. I don’t simply mean "slaves" to physical laws, to market forces, to demographics, to statistics, to nature, to nurture, to the good opinion of our fellows: I mean we’re all slaves, every last one of... »

all cats are grey

By tracey d

Grey is the new black. I mean blonde. Oh, whatever. Benjamin Franklin once counseled a young man to take an older woman as his lover using the logic that “in the dark, all cats are grey”. Indeed. A cat is a cat is a. You get the picture. One thing is the same as... »

dahranjelo’s digest \/\/ silver-tongued bowevils

By dahranjelo

Ill-fitting synthetics, bi-weekly baths, and lack of personal de-lousing will get you buzz only a “fly girl” can swing. I have a pointy finger tipped with a dirty nail aimed right at your ass. “It’s comfortable,” she says. With fly eggs and cigarette burns. Grow and evolve like the maggot turns to fly. Photo credit: Joe Bahret »