All I wanted to do was move to Japan and sell digital cameras. It may be a stereotype and judge me if you will for my broad brushstrokes but the Japanese love pictures. They love taking them and they love being in them and making little peace signs, therefore selling cameras in a …
Category Archives: Written
Put on your Sunday Clothes
AMB-4 was my first best friend. As his name suggests, he was built (primarily by me, but my dad was certainly helpful) when I was 4, out ofmegablocks and for the most part resembled Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. Of course he couldn’t be as tall as J-5, seeing how that machine was over 6 …
Red Cartoons
Last month First Run Features released a DVD called Red Cartoon: Animated Films from East Germany, and the first thing I could think of was: East Germany?!?!?! Then after looking into it a little bit all I could muster was a mock E. German animated short on The Simpsons called “Worker and Parasite”, which I …
Celebrating 10 years of Fight Club
Fight Club is probably one of the best movies ever made, I have not read the book but the style of the movie (not just the storyline) is what really grabs me. Good on ya’ David Fincher, it made you one of my favourite directors. Suicide Girls did an all-girl photoshoot to celebrate the decade …
Allen Pearl’s Pearl Files
Allen Pearl is a hilarious character you should get to know. This month Vice included a piece of his writing, which is how I became familiar with him. If only I could lead a life like this, but maybe change the man-whores bit
I would now like to give you said piece including the …
With My Tits and Your Ass, Our Daughter Will Have Medium Sized Ears
By Jared Mercer
My life has a mind of its own. I feel the need to close my eyes when I hear loud noises. I get a feeling of angst when the sun rises. Dense traffic causes brain hemorrhages. Cattle eat grass, your sister eats beef, your sister dies, she is buried under grass, the cow …
Would you think different if someone could listen?
By Jared Mercer
This is happening to me more and more often. I run, I move, I think from place to place but at each destination there is a sign saying “one way.” So I move on. There is so much I want to do in one day, I wish I didn’t have to go to …
The Moving Picture
By Jared Mercer
I love the movies, but they took our words. Movies can be the highest form of art there is but for some reason the public loves to cheapen them. People will say:
“Oh I went to see that movie because the action was good, I didn’t want to have to think.” This is just …
Odelia
By Jared Mercer
That feeling of riding a bike. That’s what is was like, it was as if I was on a bike for the first time without training wheels and maybe without a helmet too so my hair could blow in the wind. The warm afternoon sun beats down on me as I ride down …
Religion Poisons Everything?
By Jared Mercer
Ahhhh Atheism, what a touchy subject especially for the press. Enter Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher, and Richard Dawkins, three guys who are not afraid to say out loud what they think about organized religion. That is a pretty scary thing to even in this day and age, what with fatwas and fundamentalism of …