Tag: writing
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The Fingerprint on the Glass: Why I Fired the Algorithm
There’s a very specific kind of modern arrogance that convinces a guy running a neighborhood gathering space that having an algorithm design a poster is an act of sheer genius rather than a quiet admission that he is completely out of gas. When you spend your waking hours unjamming sixty-year-old steel pinsetters, counting beer cans…
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A Poem About Needing a Typewriter to Write This Poem
the ink is ready in my headblack and thick and foulready to bite into cheap cotton paperready to make a racket at three in the morninglike hail hitting a tin roof i have the cadencethe rough edgesthe heavy sigh of a man who knowsthe rent is latethe world is hollowand the coffee is cold i…
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The Rise of Slop Culture and the Defense of Human Sweat
Walk into any grocery store at two in the morning and take a slow stroll down the center aisles. What you are looking at isn’t really food. It’s miles of shelf-stable calories extruded through high-pressure industrial nozzles, chemically dyed to look appetizing and shrink-wrapped in slick plastic. It’s food stripped of dirt, season, weather and…
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The Absurd Theology of Kibble: Why One Woman’s Lawn is Better Than Congress
It appears I’ve just been introduced to a genuine superhero, though one who mercifully eschews the Spandex and capes in favor of, you know, actually doing something helpful. Vicky from Roxz’s Resources & Awareness – that’s a name that should be on a ridiculously expensive, limited-edition bobblehead. The sheer audacity of her volunteering her time…
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A City of Discarded Dreams and Lime Scooters
Ah, the majestic urban sprawl of Milwaukee, a city renowned for its brewing heritage, its stunning lakefront, and now, apparently, its burgeoning population of derelict Lime scooters. It seems the universe, in its infinite wisdom and questionable humor, has decided to grace our fair city with an abundance of these bright green mechanical locusts, scattered…
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The Compassionate Contagion: How Empathy Becomes a Revolutionary Act
We’ve turned the entire world into a single, global comment section, where every headline is a starting gun and every opinion is a battle cry. But for a great many people, that isn’t a game; it’s just Tuesday. It’s the daily reality of a queer person calculating their personal safety before holding a partner’s hand,…
JUSTIN LOCKRIDGE 