the head of devilry

"The 'Tramp Stamp' Story: Is lower-back ink sexy or slutty?"
by
Amy Saltzman

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"To call the man a nihilist is something of an understatement. He outdoes even Herodotus – who instructs us in the Histories to call no man happy until he is dead – in his proclamations of the punitive (or criminal) nature of our existences. Later in his career, he would identify birth itself as the primary human tragedy: “We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.”

"The trouble with being Cioran"
by
Sam Munson

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Animation of Charles Bukowski's poem, "A Little Atomic Bomb"
directed by Adam Long and Tom Keating

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The enigma called Alex Alien:

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"Sing goddess, the fuming, of the fuming Christ-anger of the ancient angry, fuming demi-god Peleus, and of his son, Achilleus, and of their devastation, and of their crying, sing O goddess of their great big crocodile demi-god split-heel boohoo tears and, crying lacrimosa, sing to us in thirds & thirds & thirds, give us guns to shoot each other..."

"A cardiovasc" by Bobby Alter

Grand Prize Winner of the
Lamination Colony - This Is Not A Contest
contest

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As a Weasel Sucks Eggs: An Essay on Melancholy and Cannibalism
by
Daniel Birnbaum & Anders Olsson

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Antonio Trecel Diaz is a New York based artist