The Lost Tapes: An Interview with L. Crane
A conversation reconstructed from one cassette, two batteries, and several years of bad decisions.
TODAY AT BROKEN ZINESomething different is on the desk.WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING? →
WHAT JUST LANDED
Amazing FactsAmazing Fact: Wombats Make Cubes Before the Exit
Wombat poop becomes cubic inside the intestine. The explanation involves alternating regions of stiffness, contractions, and actual fluid mechanics.
Art & ComicsCartoon: New Employee Orientation for the End of the World
Six panels of mandatory orientation for a workplace with excellent values and no remaining civilization.
OdditiesThe Municipal Office of Unfinished Business
A government office finally offers a proper home for everything you absolutely meant to finish.
Amazing FactsAmazing Fact: The Eiffel Tower Moves in the Sun
Heat makes the Eiffel Tower grow slightly, and uneven sunlight can move its summit around a small circle during the day.
PULL A LEVER
THREE BAD IDEAS FOR TODAY.
Games, confessions, fake news, strange notices, and other things that probably should not have been approved.
ExperimentsExperiment No. 8: Leave Your Phone in Another Room for Eleven Minutes
An advanced endurance test involving silence, uncertainty, and a device twelve feet away.
Internet Object of the Day: The Button That Does Nothing
Sam Rook presses it seventeen times for science.
The Apology Vending Machine Is Out of Change
Choose what went wrong. The machine will dispense the apology you deserve.
THE WRECKAGE / OPEN NOW
SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN THERE.
Read it. Post something. Leave before it becomes a committee.
THE MAILROOM / NO GRANT REQUIRED
THE BAD
NEWSLETTER.
Writers without readers. MFA graduates without jobs. Editors without a budget. The arts have never been in better shape, according to the people selling tuition.
Occasional new satire, comic relief, and reports from a creative culture that keeps mistaking exposure for payment.