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I Figured You Out

I don't have you with me but I keep a good attitude

Maybe they thought the world would shrug and move on

Seeing atrocities committed every day for months now is seriously fucking me up. Lucky me safe at home. Worse is seeing so many people, including our government and media, either denying that it's happening or saying that it's good that it is. Or necessary. Some might

Too heavy a thing to carry around every day

It's just a fad

Under the Skin

Every time I search for something on Google now they come back like I don't know man here are two or three things. I guess I could go look out back if you really want. It's like me working at the video store in the 90s.

A beautiful woman with malicious intent

Today we have an excerpt from the forthcoming book Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror by Alexandra West which you can pre-order here. It's a fascinating and revealing blend of personal essay writing and film criticism that explores the concepts of beauty standards and gender norms in

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Whatever ancient thing it is

that works the chains and pulls us so relentlessly on

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Another villain who's taking all our money

Usually Hell World is a political newsletter, and sometimes it is a music site, and sometimes, as with today's two-parter, it is both. For paid subscribers we have a talk between the great labor and metal writer Kim Kelly and Maha Shami of the D.C. hardcore band

It’s time that bands stop being afraid

NØ MAN's Maha Shami talks with Kim Kelly

Prescription for Pain

One of the most notorious pill mill doctors of the opioid epidemic

Look what we do now

art as skin and art as costume

Wrong place, wrong time, doing the wrong thing

The Waltham Murders

Approaching perfection

The best of David Berman

Maybe even approach a level of serenity

I am sort of struggling to find the words to write about this – and please skip over this part if you are sensitive to talk of self harm and suicide – but a twenty five year old active duty member of the U.S. Air Force named Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside

I get to be the person I always wish I had been

An update: Story Thirty-NineThis time, it’s for Linda.Stories From The RailLinda Tirado Please give if you can to Linda Tirado at one of these options below. She would do it for you. Venmo: Linda-Tirado-3 PayPal: Bootstrapindustries@gmail Zelle: 806.433.6075 Linda Tirado called to tell me that

A spiritually and culturally dead future devoid of art and meaning

Sean T. Collins joins us again today to write about vampires and class warfare and the great new Sexy Beast series based on Jonathan Glazer's 2000 classic. Collins also recently wrote for Hell World about Glazer's film The Zone of Interest (up for five Oscars including

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Vampire of London

Sexy Beast, vampires and class warfare

Indicting the entire expanse of the world

The goddamned birds had come back. Unannounced by the way. Uninvited. And with little having been done to the feeder these past few years in terms of upkeep. No point to it of late on my behalf considering their initial absconding. So here they perched in their chattering dozens picking

We have much to be excited about

Did you miss this piece from earlier in the week? I've been reliably informed that it is "one of the good ones." This after this after thisI watched every snap of the game. The result of which was fine. I’m not mad about Patrick Mahomes

It’s a vicious cycle

It’s hard being a freelancer in Canada at even the best of times

This after this after this

I watched every snap of the game. The result of which was fine. I'm not mad about Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs already being on pace to catch up to Tom Brady and the Patriots' legacy this quickly. I'm not mad about that at all.

An easy public enemy

by Patrick Kuklinski This piece was originally sent out to paid subscribers but I'm taking it from out behind the paywall for a bit today. Please subscribe to get every issue and access to all of the archives please and thank you. Subscribe now :)!! For many trans people,

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The true intent was always oppression

The latest assault on the rights and dignity of trans people in Florida

A loaf of bread

This story appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form. No one ever really knocks on our door so when someone does I assume something must be wrong like how it used to be getting a call in the middle of the night yet here was the neighbor presenting a

Is it really so strange?

Please, Please, Please

Negotiating the mileage of razor wire

The shark's fin in the water