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COVERING HALLOWEEN, DENTON, TEXAS, CREATIVE WEDDINGS, NO. 6 BOUTIQUE, SNACKTIME, DIVERSITY, AND HOUSE GALLERIES

CONTRIBUTING ROSIE PELKA, SAM THURMAN, ROBIN BRUNELLE,RAMZI GHAZALEH, AND BILL SWEENY

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26. ALWAYS BORROWED, NEVER ‘BLUE’

14. THIS NIGHT HAS EYES

20. HEY DENTON

The ‘Typical” Halloween Party? BY Robin Brunelle

A new take on post-wedding celebrations (penguin included)BY Bill Sweeney

Denton, Texas’s DIY house venue cultureBY Ramzi Ghazaleh

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6. GUESTS8. PREP

12. DRESS UP10. TRENDS

31. LAST BLAST

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As you begin the selection of your in-vited guests, you’ll invite your parents to submit their guest wish lists. Use the term

“wish list,” since you will ultimately decide who makes the final cut. Yes, parents who are paying for all or part of the wedding might think otherwise, but it’s ultimately your choice of who you want to share your day with. Parents should of course be given the chance to invite some of their closest friends, but as a matter of honor

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WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS

“Seeing friends and having them in my home does so much for my spirit

and sense of community,”

/and you’ll never be bored again

guests

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. And for some reason it just doesn’t happen as often as

I’d like. I’ve got tons of ex-cuses: I’m tired, the place

is dirty, I haven’t hung artwork yet, work is busy,

etc. But the bottom line is that I feel so much happier when I get a chance to en-

tertain. Seeing friends and having them in my home

does so much for my spirit and sense of community that no matter how I was

COSTUMES, DIM SUM

it’s kind of amazing the various things our friends

are capable of making and doing. who doesn’t want to brag that their best friend

is a geologist about to discover the future of our

planet due to the effects of global warming?

I ALWAYS FEEL...

in my home does so much for my spirit and sense

of community that no matter how I was feeling

before people came over, I always feel totally inspired

afterwards (even when there’s a sink full of dishes

to do). It’s been one of my resolutions

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I HATE TO GIVE AWAY the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I’m tempted to complicate matters in the inter-est of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I’ll try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible food-like substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should prob-ably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.

Uh-oh. Things are suddenly sounding a little more complicated, aren’t they? Sorry. But that’s how it goes as soon as you try to get to the bottom of the whole vexing question of food and health. Before long, a dense cloud bank of confusion moves in. Sooner or later, everything solid you thought you knew about the links between diet and health gets blown away in the gust of the latest study.

Last winter came the news that a low-fat diet, long believed to protect against breast cancer, may do no such thing — this from the monumen-tal, federally financed Women’s Health Initiative, which has also found no link between a low-fat diet and rates of coronary disease. The year be-

fore we learned that dietary fiber might not, as we had been confidently told, help prevent colon cancer. Just last fall two prestigious studies on omega-3 fats published at the same time pre-sented us with strikingly different conclusions. While the Institute of Medicine stated that “it is uncertain how much these omega-3s contribute to improving health” (and they might do the op-posite if you get them from mercury-contaminat-ed fish), a Harvard study declared that simply by eating a couple of servings of fish each week (or by downing enough fish oil), you could cut your risk of dying from a heart attack by more than a third — a stunningly hopeful piece of news. It’s no wonder that omega-3 fatty acids are poised to become the oat bran of 2007, as food scientists micro-encapsulate fish oil and algae oil and blast them into such formerly all-terrestrial foods as bread and tortillas, milk and yogurt and cheese, all of which will soon, you can be sure, sprout fishy new health claims. (Remember the rule?)

By now you’re probably registering the cogni-tive dissonance of the supermarket shopper or science-section reader, as well as some nos-talgia for the simplicity and solidity of the first few sentences of this essay. Which I’m still prepared to defend against the shifting winds of nutritional science and food-industry mar-keting. But before I do that, it might be use-ful to figure out how we arrived at our pres-ent state of nutritional confusion and anxiety.

The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and — ahem — journalism, three parties that stand

by Sam Thurman

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CIRCULAR CONTAINERS

An assortment of personal-ized cakes and pizzas, and chips? must they all be put in circular or special spherical containers?

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because who doesn’t love cupcakes that are real tasty

and don’t have an assload of transfat in them?

OREO EYES

They might look like the national bohemian

character, but perhaps this will fuel a better

understanding of oreo monocles

to gain much from widespread confusion sur-rounding what is, after all, the most elemental question an omnivore confronts. Humans decid-ing what to eat without expert help — something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees — is seriously un-profitable if you’re a food company, distinctly risky if you’re a nutritionist and just plain bor-ing if you’re a newspaper editor or journalist. (Or, for that matter, an eater. Who wants to hear, yet again, “Eat more fruits and vegetables”?) And so, like a large gray fog, a great Conspiracy of Con-fusion has gathered around the simplest ques-tions of nutrition — much to the advantage of ev-erybody involved. Except perhaps the ostensible beneficiary of all this nutritional expertise and ad-vice: us, and our health and happiness as eaters.

It was in the 1980s that food began disappear-ing from the American supermarket, gradually to be replaced by “nutrients,” which are not the same thing. Where once the familiar names of recognizable comestibles — things like eggs or breakfast cereal or cookies — claimed pride of place on the brightly colored packages crowding the aisles, now new terms like “fiber” and “cho-lesterol” and “saturated fat” rose to large-type prominence. More important than mere foods,

“Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food...”

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HOUSE WORK

“I was never in his class but I showed him my work several times. I was working in the forest and would roll up these huge paint-ings, put them on the roof of my Beetle and drive to show him. He was the first one to say clearly that my Occupations photographs were art. My other tutors just wrung their hands: ‘Is it morally right? Is this allowed?’ Beuys looked at them and said straight away it was a good action, and for him, action was art.”

Throughout the 1970s Kiefer devoted himself to Germanic myths. He explored the forests where early German tribes had defeated Ro-man legions and which were an “infinite vessel of mystery, of fairytales, of childhood memo-ries”. He absorbed the romantic sturm und drang of Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes and skyscapes, and delved deep into Wagner’s music and his place in German culture. “My mother once made me listen to Lohengrin on the radio from Bayreuth and it made a big im-pression. I was attracted to the idea of the holy grail as something far away and enigmatic and a sort of destination where you desperately want to get to, but you know you will never ar-rive. That sense of longing came to me very early in my life. And art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.”

Work can be understood as one vast engagement with cultural memory. His paintings, drawings and sculptures on mythological subjects have come to form a significant part of that memory. Usually drawing on the most familiar gods and heroes, he restricts himself to just a few, rela-tively well-known episodes, as narrated by poet-historians, given visible shape by artists and re-peatedly reinterpreted in the literature and visual

by Peggy Chiang

photos Max Guy

ABOVE

Some sculptures were set on top of a fireplace,

presumably to make sure that it was eye-level to

house visitors

RIGHT

Look at that, a couple of framed, interesting

collages and some hanging paper pattern

Unnoficial house exhibition openings are gathering prestige

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is that a coffin or a table painted to look lke it has gunshots init?

BELOW

There was quite a large turnout to this show, quite exciting that this could be a potential way to show work and bring in friends of friends for critique


FEST DRESS

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Styling Unisex at the No. 6 Boutique

BAGGU LEATHER BAGSsoft Argentine leather two sizes: standard $150 “baby” $120

MARAIS USA OXFORDSCanvas upper with silk satin binding, $44

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CHISATO TSUMORIstrange pants that I really wish to own someday. Price on request

COOGI SWEATER (USED)knitwear, found on eBay, $89.50 (if you “buy it now”)

59FIFTY CAPsynthetic$47.50

MAY 28th WATCHESPlastic, various colors$39

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NO. 6 BOUTIQUE IN NOLITA

This light-filled, spacious shop features a large and constantly changing European and American vintage collection alongside carefully selected pieces from independent contemporary designers. If you’re looking for a boutique that will help you achieve the highly coveted look of vintage-meets-modern, then No. 6, with its eclectic array of unique pieces, is the one-stop shop for you. Vintage collector Morgan Yakus and stylist Karin Bereson crossed paths over the years as they socialized in similar fashionable circles. They shared the desire to one day own a shop that would stand out among the rest. Bere-son confides that the moment they knew they could be a lasting team was when “Morgan had a vintage booth, and I found myself looking around and thinking I love everything in here!, then I heard a voice from the other side of a rack say

‘Nice shoes.’ I peered around and saw that it was Morgan, and we were wearing the same shoes.” Meant-to-be, kismet, whatever you want to call it, it marked the beginning of their lasting bond.

I’ve grown tired of walking into boutique after boutique and seeing a smaller sampling of the selection that can be acquired in a less compli-cated and more comfortable trip to a department

FACETASM TWEED PANTSCrazy pants that have a chevorn patter. Price on request.

BAGGU BACKPACK100% recycled cotton ducknew front pocket, $32


CONCEPTUAL, TEENY BOP, INTERNET STAR, JET PUFFED : A LOOK AT COMING TRENDS (AND POTENTIAL FAILURES) FOR YOUR HALLOWEEN GROUP ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOGRAPHY BY FLORA CHOI STORY BY ROBIN BRUNELLE

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CONCEPTUAL, TEENY BOP, INTERNET STAR, JET PUFFED : A LOOK AT COMING TRENDS (AND POTENTIAL FAILURES) FOR YOUR HALLOWEEN GROUP ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOGRAPHY BY FLORA CHOI STORY BY ROBIN BRUNELLE


oing back to an ancient Celtic custom Halloween goes back to 5th century B.C. Celtic tribes in Ireland believed that the spirits of the dead were allowed to come back to earth once a year on October 31st. The Celtic New Year began on November 1st and the belief was that, on the night

before the border between the world of the living and that of the dead became blurred. The spirits of the dead would then be able to cross over for this one night into the world of the living. People were afraid of what the spirits may do to them, so they started to dress up to disguise themselves. They would roam the streets in these disguises trying to fool the spirits into believing that they weren’t living beings. Of course the costumes weren’t nearly as elaborate as they are today, and were usually scary costumes. People would wear rags and smear ashes on their faces to disguise them-selves and keep the spirits of the dead away.

The tradition of Halloween came to the United States in 1840, with the arrival of a group of Irish immigrants. From there it slowly evolved into our modern day version of Hal-loween, with kids dressing up as Dora the Explorer T and Power Rangers T, pretending to be their favorite TV charac-ters. While the spirit of Halloween and the meaning behind it have changed overthe centuries, it is still a holiday that allows us to pretend to be someone else, by dressing down in rags and blackening our face to hide it, or by wearing a fancy costume with a mask, or using face paint to disguise our appearance to others who are looking at us.

The tradition of Halloween goes back to an ancient Celtic custom. As far back as the 5th century B.C. Celtic tribes in Ireland believed that the spirits of the dead were allowed to come back to earth once a year on October 31st. The Celtic New Year began on November 1st and the belief was that, on the night before the border between the world of the liv-ing and that of the dead became blurred. The spirits of the dead would then be able to cross over for this one night into the world of the living. People were afraid of what the spir-its may do to them, so they started to dress up to disguise themselves. They would roam the streets in these disguises trying to fool the spirits into believing that they weren’t liv-ing beings. Of course the costumes weren’t nearly as elabo-rate as they are today, and were usually scary costumes. People would wear rags and smear ashes on their faces to disguise themselves and keep the spirits of the dead away.The tradition of Halloween came to the United States in 1840, with the arrival of a group of Irish immigrants. From there it slowly evolved into our modern day version of Hal-loween, with kids dressing up as Dora the Explorer T and

The tradition of Halloween came to the United States in 1840, with the arrival of a group of Irish immigrants. From there it slowly evolved into our modern day version of Hal-loween, with kids dressing up as Dora the Explorer T and Power Rangers T, pretending to be their favorite TV charac-ters. While the spirit of Halloween and the meaning behind it have changed overthe centuries, it is still a holiday that allows us to pretend to be someone else, by dressing down in rags and blackening our face to hide it, or by wearing a fancy costume with a mask, or using face paint to disguise our appearance to others who are looking at us.

The tradition of Halloween goes back to an ancient Celtic custom. As far back as the 5th century B.C. Celtic tribes in Ireland believed that the spirits of the dead were allowed to come back to earth once a year on October 31st. The Celtic New Year began on November 1st and the belief was that, on the night before the border between the world of the liv-ing and that of the dead became blurred. The spirits of the dead would then be able to cross over for this one night into the world of the living. People were afraid of what the spir-its may do to them, so they started to dress up to disguise themselves. They would roam the streets in these disguises trying to fool the spirits into believing that they weren’t living beings. Of course the costumes weren’t nearly as elaborate as they are today, and were usually scary costumes. People would wear rags and smear ashes on their faces to disguise themselves and keep the spirits of the dead away.The tradition of Halloween came to the United States in 1840, with the arrival of a group of Irish immigrants. From The tradition of Halloween came to the United States in 1840, with the arrival of a group of Irish immigrants. From there it slowly evolved into our modern day version of Hal-loween, with kids dressing up as Dora the Explorer T and Power Rangers T, pretending to be their favorite TV charac-ters. While the spirit of Halloween and the meaning behind it have changed overthe centuries, it is still a holiday that allows us to pretend to be someone else, by dressing down in rags and blackening our face to hide it, or by wearing a fancy costume with a mask, or using face paint to disguise our appearance to others who are looking at us.

The tradition of Halloween goes back to an ancient Celtic custom. As far back as the 5th century B.C. Celtic tribes in Ireland believed that the spirits of the dead were allowed to come back to earth once a year on October 31st. The Celtic New Year began on November 1st and the belief was that, on the night before the border between the world of the liv-ing and that of the dead became blurred. The spirits of the dead would then be able to cross over for this one night into

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NYAN NYAN CAT APPEARANCE

The Nyan Cat music video reached ninth

place in Business Insid-er’s top ten viral videos

of April 2011, with 7.2 million total views

TIGER BEAT! YOU’RE ALIVE! AND WELL

Teen Beat was published by Sterling

Magazines from the mid 1980s to the mid

1990s when it was sold along with other

Sterling Magazines, Tiger Beat, Super

Teen and Super Teen’s Loudmouth.

AND THEN THERE WAS DRACULA, THAT JERK

The novel is told in epistolary format, as

a series of letters, diary entries, ships’ log

entries, and so forth. The story is occasion-

ally supplemented with newspaper clippings

that relate events not directly witnessed by

the story’s characters.

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Power Rangers T, pretending to be their favorite TV characters. While the spirit of Halloween and the meaning behind it have changed overthe centuries, it is still a holiday that allows us to pretend to be someone else, by dressing down in rags and blackening our face to hide it, or by wearing a fancy costume with a mask, or using face paint to disguise our appearance.

People were afraid of what the spirits may do to them, so they started to dress up to disguise themselves. They would roam the streets in these disguises trying to fool the spirits into be-lieving that they weren’t living beings. Of course the costumes weren’t nearly as elaborate as they are today, and were usu-ally scary costumes. People would wear rags and smear ashes on their faces to disguise themselves and keep the spirits of the dead away. The tradition of Halloween came to the United States in 1840, with the arrival of a group of Irish immigrants. From there it slowly evolved into our modern day version of Hal-loween, with kids dressing up as Dora the Explorer T and Power Rangers T, pretending to be their favorite TV characters. While the spirit of Halloween and the meaning behind it have changed overthe centuries, it is still a holiday that allows us to pretend to be someone else, by dressing down in rags and blackening our face to hide it, or by wearing a fancy costume with a mask, or using face paint to disguise our appearance.

The tradition of Halloween goes back to an ancient Celtic cus-tom. As far back as the 5th century B.C. Celtic tribes in Ire-land believed that the spirits of the dead were allowed to come back to earth once a year on October 31st. The Celtic New Year began on November 1st and the belief was that, on the night before the border between the world of the living and that of the dead became blurred. The spirits of the dead would then be able to cross over for this one night into the world of the living. People were afraid of what the spirits may do to them, so they started to dress up to disguise themselves. They would roam the streets in these disguises trying to fool the spirits into be-lieving that they weren’t living beings. Of course the costumes weren’t nearly as elaborate as they are today, and were usually scary costumes. People would wear rags and smear ashes on their faces to disguise themselves and keep the spirits of the

CHEN & MRS EAVES

Chen ended up stealing the show with black catMrs. Eaves while posing for the best costume of hte night. Clearly, Chen and Mrs. Eaves get Halloween.


HEY DENTON

DENTON TEXAS CLAIMS LOUD PARTIESAND AN INNOVATIVE MUSIC SCENE WATCH OUT YOU MIGHT JUST SEE THEM TOURING SOON PHOTOGRAPHY BY TUCKER ROCK STORY BY RAMZI GHAZLEH

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efore you fire off that missive defending [insert your city here] as more vital and creative than Denton, allow me to refine the argument: Denton, Texas, is simply the paradigm of a healthy music

community. Denton is overrun with artists. With 100+ acts and only 62 square miles inside the city limits, that’s more than one-and-a-half artists per square mile. The Grand Pooh-Bah of Denton bands, Brave Combo, is in many ways the template from which all the rest are cut: eclectic and artistically ambitious, with a high degree of musicianship and a strong DIY ethic. Denton is a town where artists can live cheaply and refine their creative intuitions. Midlake had played together for seven years—redefining its musical vision many times—before breakthrough album The Trials of Van Occupanther.

And you can hear Record Hop guitarist Scott Porter’s jagged deconstruction of Jimmy Page riffology slowly materializing from the straightforward metal punishment of his former band The Fabulous Badasses to its full, staggering maturity on his current group’s new Steve Albini-engineered album. Doug Burr’s masterful On Promenade came after years of soaking up Dylan, Blind Willie Johnson and Greil Marcus. Denton is a music community that incubates talent rather than ratcheting up market pressure.

But none of this would be possible without the music enthusiasts who devote countless hours, often pro bono, promoting gigs, organizing festivals, putting together house shows, running labels and managing studios. Thanks to Mwanza Dover’s Melodica Music Festivals, venue owners like Dan Mojica and Josh Baish, production companies like Gutterth, venues like J&J’s Pizza and Strawberry Fields record store, community-minded studios like The Echo Lab—DIY is not just a hackneyed acronym in Denton—it’s an ethos of community and hard work that’s been sustained for over two decades. Blind Willie Johnson and Greil Marcus. Denton is a music community that incubates talent rather than

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None of this would be possible without the music enthusiasts who devote countless hours, often pro bono, promoting gigs, organizing festivals, putting together house shows, running labels and managing studios. Thanks to Mwanza Dover’s Melodica Music Festivals, venue owners like Dan Mojica and Josh Baish, production companies like Gutterth, venues like J&J’s Pizza and Strawberry Fields record store, community-minded studios like The Echo Lab—DIY is not just a hackneyed acronym in Denton—it’s an ethos of community and hard work that’s been sustained for over two decades.

Denton is a town where artists can live cheaply and refine their creative intuitions. Midlake had played together for seven years—redefining its musical vision many times—before breakthrough album The Trials of Van Occupanther. And you can hear Record Hop guitarist Scott Porter’s jagged deconstruction of Jimmy Page riffology slowly materializing from the straightforward metal punishment of his former band The Fabulous Badasses to its full, staggering maturity on his current group’s new Steve Albini-engineered album. Doug Burr’s masterful On Promenade came after years of soaking up Dylan, Blind Willie Johnson and Greil Marcus. Denton is a music community that incubates talent rather than ratcheting up market pressure.

D. I . Y. is not just a hackneyed acronym in Denton


Always Borrowed,Blue5

CREATING A PERSONALIZED WEDDING (AFTER) PARTY OH, HEY, THERE’S THAT PENGUIN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

PHOTOGRAPHY BY TALIA SHORE STORY BY BILL SWEENEY

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pre-packaged banquet wedding makes them sick. They want their love bash to be uniquely them, and they want to buck some of the traditions that

don’t fit with their values. A virginal white dress, schmaltzy speeches, a bouquet tossed in a sea of screaming women just itching to be the next at the altar? Yuck. Jill wants to scrap the ivory gown and trade it in for an authentic 1920s flap-per dress; Jack wants a Bloody Mary bar instead of a cham-pagne toast. Jill’s a little crafty and gets the idea to make her own garter, wedding cake topper, and place settings. They want a wedding that is revelrous yet sustainable. Most of all, they want to make it the best party they’ve ever attended.

Problem is, all their friends are progressive, creative, laid-back, quirky and relatively moneyed, too, and Jack and Jill want their wedding to stand out from the other Etsy-fied ceremonies they’ve attended over the last five years. It turns out Jill’s best friend already had the homemade gar-ter idea, and Jack’s eclectic metal playlist eerily resembles his brother-in-law’s. So they (mostly Jill) comb the indie weddingblogosphere. Every idea they see is supercute, original, and definitely not overly sentimental. But if they took those ideas, wouldn’t their wedding suddenly become just like all the others? Pretty soon Jill is spending hours each day looking at these sites, racking her brain for origi-nal tweaks while mentally adding up the exorbitant costs of said tweaks. (Non-nauseating flower arrangements: $2,341. Off-the-beaten-path arboretum: $7,000/day. Trans-lucent rice paper to print vows: $98. And so on.) It doesn’t take long for Jack and Jill to get wind of themed weddings.

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Mad Men-themed weddings. Prison-themed weddings. Artichoke and asparagus-themed weddings. They like it! And since they’re socially conscious (and also daunted by the price of a single customized coat hanger) they get the brilliant idea to make their special day a nod to the Great Recession. Before they know it, they’ve planned a hobo-themed wedding, down to the last detail of exchanging a single bean instead of rings and encouraging the guests to

“wear their shabbiest.” Jill has long ago realized that even though the dress need not be a frilly monstrosity, it is still a Big Fucking Deal. So she makes sure that her ruffled cot-ton voile frock is 100 percent Depression-Era authentic. She ransacks secondhand shops and online boutiques for the perfect vintage millinery crown and delicate cutout oxfords.

The big day comes. They take Hipstamatic photos and feel proud that they only spent $15,000—far less than the cost of the average American nuptials. (They try not to imagine how much cheaper a trip to Vegas would have been.) At the wed-ding itself, things go surprisingly well. People compliment them on their adorable clown-hobo invitations and brown bags full of popcorn. Jill breathes a sigh of relief, glad to be rid of her nightmares about vicious, idea-stealing other brides.

A few months after their Memorial Day wedding, when the dust has settled and the trashcan fire has been put out, Jack and Jill post some photos of their hobo wedding on Etsy. To their horror, Jack and Jill instantaneously see their me-ticulously planned, one-of-a-kind ceremony mercilessly trashed on Regretsy.com. Apparently, their hobo wedding

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MEL BAR

Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Water. 1566 must have been a crazy year.

KYLE FEWELL

My little sisters Christmas list and it is really weird. knives, zelda games, weird floaty ball thing, airsoft guns, and earings.

SUSAN MILLERASTROLOGY ZONE

Tuesday: a hard working day. Saturn will conjoin moon, moon=women. Girls, know your limits, don’t overdo. If you get sad, you’re just tired.

DAN KENNEDY THE MOTH

I don’t care about trying to write faster next time, I care about trying to write better next time.

SZECHUANBEST SALON

NOVEMEMBER 19TH

is pleased to present its fourth salon, featuring work by Eun Kim. From one photograph to the next, the work is momentous, casual, vapid, chanced, voyeuristic, genuine.

GEORGE CHEUNGPHLEBOTOMIST

I don’t get it... You have tattoos but you’re afraid of needles? Cool story bro, but this is still happening.

ROBIN BRUNELLE

Major kudos to SNL for realizing last week that Taran Killam is a surprisingly boring performer and shouldn’t be put in every sketch ever.

SAM THURMAN

On the subway a “sick passenger” delay really means “dead person” right? Just want to know what to complain about.

OLD QUOTESNO HAT HOLDING!

It is not proper for a girl to hold a man’s hat in a theater. Unless he is disabled, there is no earthly reason for it. PA1928

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G.A. McGuire has generously loaned Feder & Silberberg a pair of his pantaloons,which may be seen hanging out in front of their store. IN1877

NIV BAVARSKY

Here’s a secret snippet

FLAT VERNACULAR

Major kudos to SNL for realizing last week that Taran Killam is a surprisingly boring performer and shouldn’t be put in every sketch ever.

MICHAEL NORMYLE

Just karaoked “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in Koreatown. My life is complete.

DAN KENNEDY THE MOTH

Putting off sitting still on the floor for ten minutes might be my all-time best in procrastination.

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