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Other Issue 6 Utopia/Dystopia February 2005

• Dying For David Cassidy by John Marr. "The sight of Keith Partridge in the flesh was like a transcendent moment of religious ecstasy."
• Top 10 21st. Century Eugenics Programs by Claire Light. "Today's eugenics programs are clean, packaged, and visible by their invisibility."
• Screw by John Shirley. "We were all part of selling our world out to these soulless things."
• Women Remake The World: A Timeline of Feminist Utopias by Liz Henry. "Feminist utopia is also revolution."
• Classy Freddie Blassie by Christopher J. Garcia. "Blassie made sure the violence he perpetrated at ringside was right in front of these women, so the camera could pick up their incredible reactions."
• Goddamn Electric by Jon Quaccia. "Heavy metal taught me constructive negativity."
• Hog Heaven by Abigail Goldman. "We act like outlaws and look like outlaws and ride like outlaws so we can move into the outlaws."
• Harrison Ford Was Right by Alicia Goranson. "I'm drowning in stagnant time."

Other Issue 5 October 2004

• How Gay Marriage Ruined My Het Relationship by Karen Solomon. "Gay marriage made us feel like big, fat spoiled jerks."
• Visit Swamp Town, U.S.A. by Diane Goldberg. "We've entered the age of relentlessly stupid and masturbatory memorializing of all things American."
• Cartoon Authoritarianism by Shauna Rogan. "What's that, President Mittens? We're dropping 70 planeloads of radioactive scorpions on Marrakech? Awww, that's so adorable."
• The Thing About Hinckley by Elizabeth Searle. "How come Daddy didn't think Hinckley was a HERO?"
• Brain Damage by Annalee Newitz. "At its core, neuroscience fiction is about what happens to our brains when they are colonized by wankers."
• Sexual Fundamentalism by Charlie Anders. "We need tent revivals for sex. We need our own Promise Keepers."
• A Taxonomy of Vipers by Chaim Bertman. "In the venom is a whisper of the antidote."
• The Powderhole by Michelle Tea. "On very bad days, Candon will talk about digging herself back into the landfill, but mostly she just turns quiet and chews the walls."
• Blood Quantum by Jennifer Fox Bennett. "The attempt to define a Native person as "Indian" dances fleetingly between the fuzzy lines of racial, cultural and ethnic identity."
• The Pleasures of Deception by Seth Schoen. "Nearly everyone has been on both sides of deception."
• The Tranny, The Bitch and the Wardrobe by Simon Sheppard. "Clive thought of putting on his mother's dresses. It would be as if she'd never left."
• Mock The Church by Joel Schalit. "Standing up to religion is a form of anti-fascism."

Other Issue 4 June 2004

• The Brown Sound by Jonathan Sterne. "The brown noise enters through the ear and exits through the rear."
• God Bless the Rouge, Blanc et Bleu by Abigail Goldman. "The sheep's face had a meaty sneer and the sack was warm as urine."
• Kick Out The Jams, Genderfuckers! by Larry-Bob Roberts. "Almost weekly you can witness a gender-transgressing rock band."
• Sex and the Single Fighter-Mage by Shannon Cochran. "I first had sex at the age of 75. I was an elf named 'Windkiss.'"
• Decimal Universe by Chaim Bertman. "When a scientist invents a pseudoscience, it is a sad reflection on an entire civilization."
• Can't Buy Like by Annalee Newitz. "People will pay for sex and love, but they won't pay for friendship."
• Xing Up by Jyoti Mishra. "All this current inane banter about 'espresso sex' is yet another mask for the same old pole-in-the-hole dick-centered reification of sex."
• Coral's Pocket by Hanne Blank. "Misery still streamed through her as Coral watched her uterus leap like a trout from the surgeon's hands."
• Snakes and Rats by Gregory Dicum. "Close your eyes and do the taste test, and you'll find to your horror that color has no flavor."

Other Issue 3 Feb. 2004

• Lexicon by Cecilia Tan. "All the words of Chinese that I know I can list on a single page."
• Fag Hags and Dyke Tykes In Recovery. "Do you find yourself using the word 'fabulous' on a daily basis?"
• Marijuana and the Pocket Vibrator Bitches: Lynnee Breedlove Interviews Ed Rosenthal. "I'm addicted to chocolate, so should we make it illegal?"
• Jed and Winnie by Kirk Read. "Whatever impulse makes a girl clench up about rats and night dirt and worms having sex with themselves right in your palm, well, those parts of her were long dead."
• The Boundary Police by Charlie Anders. "There are many reasons why the Boundary Police walk their lonely beat, along the dark side streets of identity politics."
• New Noise, Old Noise by Joel Schalit. "Music without any discernable arrangements, that was brutally loud and unpleasant to fuck to."
• New World Odor by Jim Munroe. "Personally, I didn't think the young fella was doing the cause any good."
• Bone Break Fever Dream by Mat Honan. "I swallowed a Tylenol and prayed for Thailand."

Other Issue 2 Oct. 2003

• My Summer Vacation by Diane Goldberg. "I love stuff formerly owned by wealthy people."
• The Future of War by David Gerrold, Cory Doctorow, Nalo Hopkinson and others. "If we manage to muster any sense as a species, then war will have no future."
• Poem: The Beautiful by Michelle Tea. "you can just forget about everything america... i'm going home."
• The New Other America by Doug Henwood. "Poor people are never very far away in the physical sense."
• I Am Bill's Butt by Bill Brent. "Bill's endorphins get all the fun, those lazy sons o' bitches."
• The Great American Makeover Novel by Marilyn Wann. "Do we really enjoy depictions of such craven desire for conformity?"
• Two Cubans by John Bowker. "With so-called peasant dishes, there's a huge labor component involved."
• The Opposite of Ethnic Cleansing by Charlie Anders. "I flinched every time one of them thanked me for uncovering the truth."
• Five Things I Hate About NPR by Annalee Newitz. "NPR is too nice."
• The End of the World as They Knew It by James Rocchi. "Horror cinema was not afraid to end the world."

Other Issue 1 June 2003

• Char King, Earth Oracle by Dev Green. "Strap yourself in as we go across Don't Go There land."
• Reclaim the Suits by Stephen Duncombe. "In your eyes, the well-suited man is John Ashcroft."
• In Our Pajamas by Gerard Jones. "Superheroes are heroic fantasies for people who no longer believe in heroes."
• You Got Your Keffiyeh in My Burka by Joel Schalit. "Every progressive movement has to endure moments of well-intentioned cluelessness."
• Redneck Environmentalism by Sean Captain. "A grass manager first and a cowboy second."
• Sexing the Database by Annalee Newitz. "Your gender is threaded into the datastream."
• Pornography by Daphne Gottlieb. "The DJ announces I'm available for lapdances as I sink into the corner bawling."
• Mutts at the Dog Show by Gregory Dicum. "I belong to a wave of the randomly heritaged, the obscurely mixed."
• Your Mouth Is Open by Jan Richman. "I've wanted to fuck someone with Tourettes ever since I could remember."
• Hedwig's Six Inches by Jordy Jones. "Privilege can afford to be apolitical."

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