News & Commentary
On the NBC Commissary Menu Today…Hyper-Sensitivity
By: CJ Scalzetti
On February 1st, workers at 30 Rock went into the commissary to find that day’s offerings to be a celebration of Black Culture with a menu consisting of fried chicken, collard greens and black eyed peas. A small firestorm then was started...
SLICES OF LIFE
The Human Prisons: Winter and Addiction
by James Dugan
Addictions aren’t much different than winter, except for the hope.
LUNCH BREAK POETRY
Driving A Legacy
By Nick Carraway
A man winds himself too tight
Pulls back on a fire red crew cab
Bumps, shudders, and rushes to real jobs at big brick buildings
mayor
by Steele Fields
Corner mouth boasting
Past imaginary swiveling
Plumber cracked and dumpy drawer’d
And fever crotched he’s strutting in
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SPORTS
Gunslingers and Blingers; or, Sexy Picks Only
by B. Traven
Admittedly, Brady is a great quarterback. Best ever? Top Five of all time? Certainly not. The beneficiary of a great defense early in his career, an obscure “tuck” rule, SpyGate, and an overemphasis on “rings,” Brady is nothing more than a glorified system quarterback of moderate talent and decent athletic ability.
CAPTION CONTEST
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BOOKS
A Book Club Dropout's Review of Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
By James Dugan
Reading Downtown Owl is like getting into a car with a bunch of teenagers and remembering how good it feels to drive fast getting nowhere and not caring because everything you want as a reader is right in that car.
Arts & Entertainment
A Wicked Revision
by Patrick Edmonds
Yet… as I reflect on the smoke pouring out of a giant mechanical dragon, and on the faces of the children one row in front of me, faces of glee and terror (at certain points), I am unable to contain my thoughts from pondering the dangerous implications of a seemingly innocent musical.
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LUNCH BREAK LIT
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsExcerpt from Blood and Water a novel
by Steele Fields
Nevado shouldered his guitar, squinting into the relentless sun, and reminded himself to steal another pair of shades the first chance he could.
