Luke O'Neil

A brief pocket of borrowed joy

This story appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form available now. An old friend I haven’t seen in some years and certainly not since any of us learned the word Covid was visiting at the home of a second friend nearby. Come by he said and I said

The world has turned and left me here

The 5 best Weezer songs ever

The more people join us the more we’ll be able to get done

For now we have to get pretty creative and experimental in our approach to organizing

It is more quiet than I’ve ever heard it

There’s no traffic because there are no roads

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The way their hands could mutate the strings

RIP Rick Froberg

It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door

Drive safe

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The willingness to allow certain people to die

It’s a horrifying and disgusting contrast

Instead it all just goes in the one direction

That’s pretty much one of the main things men have to be fucked up about

I keep waiting for it to happen to us

Who can drop their kid off in America today and not fear the worst?

The Perfect American Success Story

Unfortunately it appears the apocalypse is going to look very cool on camera for a little while before it really kicks in. Today the great Vince Mancini joins us to write about Flamin' Hot the latest Business Mindset biopic about the guy who invented (or didn't!!?) a

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I surprise myself sometimes by behaving in a ruinous and unsupportive way

They should’ve called it The Leftovers if that title wasn’t already taken

An extreme provocation by the Atlanta Police and the State of Georgia

Weaponizing the powers of the state for political gain is abuse of power

Who likes the idea of the wall?

This piece originally appeared in Esquire in August 2015. Subscribe if you hate car dealership guys There's a pool and hot tub supply store about 25 miles outside Boston. It's nothing much to look at, a long, squat brick building slumped alongside an empty parking lot.

I hope you are happy with your destination

Friday July 7 will be the release party for my book A Creature Wanting Form at the OR Books space in New York. Joining me will be my pals Josh Gondelman, Rax King, Isaac Fitzgerald, and Mattie Lubchansky. You should come buddy. Here's a piece Rax wrote for

A little piece of shade

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. You remember that one. It was one of the ones that was bad enough that we'll always remember it. Meanwhile there have been 236 mass shootings (in which four or more people are injured or

I'm asking you to love your family more than you hate mine

Thanks to Dave from Des Moines for sponsoring four Hell World subscriptions. If that's something you'd like to do too let me know. I of course very much appreciate how every now and again some guilty lefty lawyer or whatever will be like I love what

Attorney General investigating Boston PD to determine if Gang Unit engages in unconstitutional policing

The “review is focused on racial disparities in the rates at which people are stopped and frisked” By Chris Faraone There has been significant state-level scrutiny of Massachusetts municipal law enforcement officers in the past year, with the appointed Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission suspending 31 officers for

Go and do likewise

Buy the book people are saying "made me feel like shit." Mark your calendars for July 7 in New York for an event with me and some pals. It's gonna be a whole thing. Today Max Collins returns for the second installment of The Advice Column

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It's not a situation I would wish upon anybody

A little pilot light of anxiety always burning somewhere inside

I don't know how to stop being so angry

Do you feel safer now?

It's like looking both ways before I cross the street

I want to leave, this feels like the kind of place where a shooting will happen

I'm not saying monsters aren't real

That’s what happens when you try to build socialism without socialism

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Hospitals extracting wealth from communities

Today we have an excerpt from the book On Medicine as Colonialism by Michael Fine which you can find here via PM Press. "What if communities where the pandemic hit were just the raw materials of this process, the place where the gold is mined, the oil is extracted,

Armed and aggrieved with pressure-cooked propagandized brains

Four people were shot in Gastonia, North Carolina on Tuesday including a six year old girl who suffered an injury to her face from a bullet fragment. Her father is still in the hospital with serious injuries. “Why did you shoot my daddy and me? Why did you shoot a

You do this indenture or they put enough debt on you that it will ruin your life

It’s a very bleak story about how government’s public mission is being perverted in every imaginable way