Food Hacking
The lost art of molecular gastronomy By James King “Chefs are a lot like hardware hackers. Both geek out, absorbing […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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Food For Thought
Independent eateries give cities some identity By Liz Worth There’s a certain kind of feeling that goes along with being […]
All-You-Can-Grow Buffet
How some city dwellers are rebelling against the tyranny of the grocery store By David Silverberg If you live in […]
Lockpick Pornography
This novel starts out strong, with a crash course into the main character’s mind. He smashes TVs if someone in […]
Editor’s Note
By Anna Bowness I wasn’t being objective or disinterested when I devised the theme of this issue. I was, at […]
Zine Philosophy
By Nadja Martens It was late in the night, or rather early in the morning that my mother and I […]
do i look like i’m smiling?
By Catherine Paquette July.2.____ mother thinks i am a maniac. today i told her i was a terrorist and she […]
Too Much Mean Me
By Geoffrey Brown We both were there. We were both there. I was who I was there. When I was […]
Songs of the Lefties
By K. Crab Excerpted from Songs of the Lefties (US$5, CDN$7 – includes postage, PO Box 1510, Laguna Beach, CA, […]
Road Trip
By The Dawn Horse Excerpted from Road Trip (PO Box 209003, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA, [email protected], www.myspace.com/thedawnhorse)
Sharp Shooter
By Jacinta Bunnell In rural Pennsylvania, dads like mine wanted their children to gain a working knowledge of rifles and […]
Country of Origin
By Mark Young My Smithsonian T-shirt comes from Mexico. The University of Western Sydney one is Chinese made. This poem […]