June 2010
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WIN, LOSE, OR DRAW
I played competitive soccer as a youth.
I remember hating the idea of a tie.
Even back then.
Playing to a draw.
It pissed me off as a kid, and it pisses me off now, watching the World Cup.
The USA plays England to a draw!
So what?
This bores me.
I think it stinks.
Tying should not be allowed. In any sport. For any reason.
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SUBVERSIA TRAILER
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TNB Books - Official Press Release
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
The Nervous Breakdown and Hukilau partner to launch TNB’s new publishing imprint.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (June 2010) - Readers addicted to nonfiction, fiction and poetry have long been getting their fix at the online culture magazine The Nervous Breakdown (TNB), a site founded by bestselling author Brad Listi (Attention. Deficit. Disorder.). Now, in...
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REALITY CHECK: AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID SHIELDS
Few books in recent memory have caused as much of a stir as Reality Hunger, the 219-page “manifesto” by David Shields.
It’s a book that defies easy classification.
An argument. A clarion call. An affront. A life story.
An unapologetic assault on the literary status quo.
An essay-memoir-pointillistic-literary-collage-and-exercise-in-appropriation-art, one which...
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THE VIEW FROM THE WEST - VOL. 3
Charles Manson, David Letterman, Michael Jackson, Axl Rose.
All four, as young men, fled Indiana and headed West.
As did I.
Los Angeles, California.
Doves on power lines. Rats in palm trees.
One of my all-time favorite Letterman jokes: Autumn is my favorite season in LA, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
In my youth, I didn’t really have an urge to...