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Whatever the last joke is going to be

Now the entire thing is built out of highway sharks

The aesthetic injury they experience

No precedent just spite

The greatest American rock band

The top 5 R.E.M. songs ever

There is no constitutional right to adequate medical care

The latest egregious application of qualified immunity

Where the Old Mouth used to be

This short story was originally sent to paid Hell World subscribers. It does not appear in my book A Creature Wanting Form but it could have! Subscribe now to get every issue of Hell World in your email and access to all of the archives. Here's a nice

Myths can't live forever

What, if anything, will remain of Israeli democracy?

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Should we talk about the weather?

Should we talk about the government?

The Fury of Sinéad O'Connor

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

Everything is gonna be perfect from that point going forward

I never really believed writer's block was a real thing before. I thought it was some made up shit like Havana Syndrome where it just meant the guy was hungover too much and was trying to blame something or someone else. But now I have it for the

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