Burst O’Teh Web

In Defense of the Difficult

/ Eugenio Tisselli & Rui Torres / Letters & Essays
Isn't it ironic how, as we build machines that mimic thought and language in ever more persuasive ways, the very energy that fuels those machines is making us ever more stupid?

Film: THE HUNGARIAN VACUUM

Visual Poem: Pink

Jetset Poet

Poems: Thomas Walton

/ Thomas Walton / Poetry
I sat listening on the rocky crags moss-heavy to a speedboat hidden in the fog buzzing closer...

Toys

/ Oscar Mardell / Misc
I decided that I’d dress up as a Furby. I bought about four metres of pink felt, folded it in half, stitched up the sides, cut out arm holes, affixed a belly and ears, then hot-glued on some hair, a beak...

Blockheads Forever

/ Emmy Favilla / Music
It was June 1990 when the inevitable happened. I realized, two days before the end of first grade, that I liked the New Kids on the Block.

FICTION: Fish Ghostess

/ Shreyonti Chakraborty / Fiction
My grandmother’s ghost hangs on the coconut tree. I have repeatedly suggested that the mango […]

FICTION: Longboxes of Love

/ Patrick Nevins / Fiction
He was a conscientious B student and trusted office aide, which was he how he […]

In Memorandum: A Corporate Eulogy