The orthodoxy has failed us when it comes to analyzing inflation. The simplified see-saw, with inflation on one end and unemployment on the other, is a valuable key to understanding inflation, but it’s not the full picture. The stagflation that plagued the 1970s is clear evidence that this dynamic is not consistent. Focusing on employment does not cut it, especially in a situation as unique as a post-pandemic economy.

Art DiFuria’s music has always been a staple in my life. For ages, I didn’t even know I was tuning in to him in particular. Early Lilys albums, Uptown Bones, Photon Band, the miscellaneous projects in between–I listened to them all but didn’t realize he was the consistent through line.

He’s ‘90s cool, he’s psychedelic resurgence. Above all, he’s a pleasant guy to talk to:

This is the first time you’ve ever been drunk

in this house.

Lying on the floor saying

I might not be a real person.

Le Belladone demands to be listened to—and watched. Quebec’s brilliant rising star now in conversation with Poison Tree.

In 1951 Zakaria Goneim made an incredible discovery. Eight years later his body was found floating in the Nile. His death is the second in this story. The first, nearly 4.5 thousand years earlier, set the stage for a conspiracy that still has ripple effects today.

Dedicated to Tillie Olsen

Because to me, Winooski is the opposite of Yonnondio,

not a dirge, not lost, very much passed to the future.

It was a two-nightmare night, a fragile sleep. My son ambled into our room and sandwiched himself between me and my husband, inconsolable. My side of the bed is directly under the witch-window. Instead of settling, he stared past me to that long rectangular window that hugs the roofline, and then, furtively, back to the door he’d entered from.

My ballot is a list of unopposed nominees this year, a touch-screen coronation for machine men and women who waited their turn and reached the front of the line. For me, there is no line. I’m in and out in a minute. I don’t vote for anybody running unopposed; there’s something I can’t stand about that…

Though Philadelphia has taken on many forms in its almost 350 years of history, it is often associated with an idealized version of the founding values of the United States. According to the traditional narrative, Philadelphia is the cradle of American liberty – the place where the Founding Fathers and political thinkers like Thomas Paine debated the ideas that would go on to define the nation and distinguish it from the monarchies of the Old World.

When Margie puts together the work to be displayed every week, an email is sent out for people to take care of refreshments. Margie, of course, locks down her own name for the charcuterie board but utensils, cups, drinks and perhaps some extra refreshments are up for grabs. I usually volunteer for the alcohol subsection of the drink category, I find it easier to shop for an effective time, not an enjoyable one. So, when I feel the show pace start to dwindle, I sneak 10 mg of MDMA into the wine.

I’ve been breaking federal law by opening my grandmother’s mail. I don’t think she’d mind; she’s dead and, beyond that, she was not the type of lady to believe in an afterlife she could judge me from. “Oh bullllllshit” she’d say, the first and third syllables staccato but the second pulled to near-breaking.

Every fragrance I own holds memories for me. They’ve been with me in the best and worst of times. I mourn every bottle I’ve finished, and I anticipate the memories I will someday make with different perfumes.

Voting for Reform is the same cultural, fear-based voting from our society’s elderly that led to Brexit, why else would a population who lives off of benefits in the form of pensions and requires far more socialised medical care vote for a party which stands for cutting benefits and privatising the NHS?

In the spring of 1778, Philadelphia was an occupied city. After defeats at Brandywine Creek and Germantown in the autumn of 1777, George Washington’s army had retreated to Valley Forge. The Liberty Bell was smuggled out of the city and hidden in a basement in Allentown for fear that it would be melted down to make bullets for the occupation.

It’s everything the cliches say. The tip-top of the world. Every single point on this Earth is lower than me at this moment. The profound loneliness fills me with power. In all directions, I am alone.

I’ve conquered the mountain.

I’ve conquered the entire world.

I look out at the other peaks and wonder what they hold. All this, and I’m not happy with what I have.

I felt the need to write about Lynch, attempting to come to terms with some of the auteur's works and impact. Enjoy some colour theory and analysis, as well as some waxing lyrical.

I've spent so long staring at screens that my eyes have gone square. Rectangular is probably more accurate but that isn't really a phrase.

Grandpa said the world didn't end one day. The old ways of doing things just receded, a wave falling back into the ocean. Lucy understood what he meant though she'd never seen the ocean and expected she never would. Even now there were places where people drove cars and flew in planes and kept electric lights on all the time, but nobody could afford that in Vermont.

In the predawn hours, the driver

goes out in the cold or the sticky dew

to look under the hood, inspect the engine,

the axles, the windshield, the tailpipe.

THE LIFE AND FASCINATING ADVENTURES OF MISS ELIZA “ELI” GENTLE WHO TRAVELLED EUROPE AND ASIA DRESSED AS A MAN! ALONG WITH HER ENCOUNTERS WITH DANGEROUS WEATHER EXOTIC BEASTS AND THE LAW AS WELL AS HER UNMASKING OF A  MYSTERY POET TAKEN FROM HER JOURNALS AFTER SHE RECENTLY DIED OF FEVER