by Sasha Stone | Jul 30, 2013 | Monsters Among Us
I guess because I listen to Dick Gordon’s The Story in podcast form I am well aware of the hunger strike to protest solitary confinement going on. When it began in early July there were 30,000 participants, now they are down to only 1,000. One person has died...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 30, 2013 | POETS, TO WRITE
Almost There by Timothy Liu Hard to imagine getting anywhere near another semi- nude encounter down this concrete slab of interstate, the two of us all thumbs— white-throated swifts mating mid-flight instead of buckets of crispy wings thrown down hoi polloi— an army...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 28, 2013 | EVOLUTION-OBSESSION, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE
In his latest piece for the New York Times, Nicolas Kristof ruminates on two documentaries – the Act of Killing and Blackfish. He doesn’t really see an end to our ongoing ambivalence as a culture towards inhumane treatment of animals but he believes we...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 26, 2013 | MEN, POLITICS, WOMEN
When it was announced that Anthony Weiner would run for office anyway, despite his being caught sexting and tweeting pictures of his apparently giant cock a few liberals, I included, applauded him. Fuck it, why should what he does in his private sexual life have...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 24, 2013 | Misc
It seems to me that the modern age is offering up two vivid portraits of female sexuality in 50 Shades of Grey and HBO’s Girls. To my mind, neither is particularly reliable when trying to crack the code of female sexuality, although Girls comes a little closer...