Unwinnable

You feel compelled to support great writing… This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #202. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ——— Interfacing in the millennium.

You feel compelled to support great writing… S2E7 The Gold Violin After a season of Don teaching Peggy how to be more like him, and of different women telling Peggy that this should not be her goal, it is interesting when Don gets the same treatment from Burt Cooper, sitting him down like he is a much younger man then he is. To Burt Cooper, Don might as well be Kurt and Smitty.

You feel compelled to support great writing… This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #202. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ——— What’s left when we’ve moved on. ——— I recently watched several episodes from the latest season of Love Island UK.

You feel compelled to support great writing… “You wanna fuck your friend, fuck him, not me.” I remember the cover of Tequila Sunrise on the shelves of the video store when I was a kid, but I never rented it. It’s probably a good thing that I didn’t.

You feel compelled to support great writing… This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #202. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ——— Ruminations on the power of the riff. ——— Music history is full of untold “what if” stories from artists who called it quits too soon or whose careers were otherwise derailed before their time.

You feel compelled to support great writing… This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #202. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ——— Thoughts about being something else. ——— I’ve heard of the crossover comic Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong that came out from DC and Legendary.

You feel compelled to support great writing… I’ve learned things about myself from parenting, dealing with the legal system, marriage, and accidental toilet selfies. But I did not expect to soul-search while impaling monks in Mortal Kombat. Turns out there’s such a thing as post-Fatality clarity. Scorpion is honestly the healthiest communicator in the game. He wants you near him. He screams, “GET OVER HERE.” Clear. Direct. No mixed signals. Sub-Zero just freezes people out. Toxic, but clear.

This is a feature excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly #202. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” – Ursula K. LeGuin It begins, like most epics, with a war. * * * Revolutionaries are not born. They’re made, moment by moment.

You feel compelled to support great writing… This is a reprint of the TV essay from Issue #102 of Exploits, our collaborative cultural diary in magazine form. If you like what you see, buy it now for $2, or subscribe to never miss an issue (note: Exploits is always free for subscribers of Unwinnable Monthly). ——— For twenty-eight minutes at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre, Lestat is alive. But not as the monster remembered by someone else.

You feel compelled to support great writing… I’m on the roof of a garage tracking my boyfriend’s next kill. He’s preparing to Search and Destroy; I’m clenching my teeth. I push forward. I see the runner. He makes his move. I stow my tracker drone and slide between two cargo containers in an intersection beyond the lab roof. I watch two more runners go down on the pavement. Blue blood spatters the logistical marks on the freight.