Month: October 2013
The Sun Will Come Out #tomorrow
An interview with science and technology author and optimist Clive Thompson
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Happy Medium Is the Message
In Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson finds the middle ground between digital utopians and Luddite naysayers
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Daniel Boone, By Himself
How you scalp someone is like this. Cut a small round down to the bone beneath the hair on top of the head, near the front. Put your foot on …
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Notes on Her Dear Perversion
Finalist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize G. O’Keeffe is invited to the Islands by Dole to paint pineapples. They want someone who understands the hard poke of deciduous hunger. …
Read MoreThe Bone Chapel
Finalist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize What you are now we used to be; what we are now you will be. The friar’s hologram greets us thusly. Says if …
Read MoreMoving Back to the Bakken Play
Finalist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize Oil derricks on the outskirts of Estevan gesticulate like dawn-risen monks bowing at unseen shrines. Around here, everybody’s working overtime. The new Ford …
Read MoreScarecrow Maintenance
Winner of the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award The old man’s itchy greatcoat fell to me and given his complaint of its intransigence I landed on the notion …
Read MoreThe Coin Under the Leftmost Sliding Cup
Winner of the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize
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