Drenched in a sappy 80’s soundtrack comes Imperial Bedrooms, Bret Easton Ellis’ follow-up to his juvenile debut, Less Than Zero. Like its predecessor, Imperial Bedrooms is also named after an Elvis Costello work. This time the title comes from Costello’s 1982 album Imperial Bedroom. Slap a plural on there and off we go! The book [...]

After the death of Esther Hoffe (long time friend and secretary of Max Brod, and sole executor of Brod’s estate), the attempts to seize the final documents of Franz Kafka and Max Brod from the Hoffe daughters have transitioned from passive-aggressive to completely aggressive-aggressive. Over the past two odd years since Esther Hoffe’s death, no [...]

I met computer hacker/anarcho-activist Jeremy Hammond through a network of sketchy associations sometime in early 2006. A little more than a year later I got the news that he’d been busted by the FBI and was in federal prison.  That was in July 2007, part-way through his two-year prison sentence. At the time, I was [...]

“It’s about how I joined the polo crowd. By accident.” That was Hunter S. Thompson’s way of describing “Polo is my life.” The title comes from a friend of Hunter’s who was known not only known for being “a polo person” but also for having a violent husband and having many domestic-violence calls come from [...]

When director-brothers Albert and David Maysles heard that the Stones were going on a tour across America, they asked to go along and the band agreed. So the good brothers armed a gang of cameramen with a heap of film-reels and set off to film the most infamous rock ‘n’ roll tour to ever be. [...]

Meet Dustin Diamond. You know … the guy who played that annoying, corny character “Screech” on the 90s pre-teen sit-com Saved by the Bell. Forget anything you might have heard about him. For a child-star and a celebrity, his life is so plain and typical that he had to make a cloud of lies and [...]

This book won’t save your life despite the bold claims on its cover. This book won’t even give you many tips on how to survive WSHTF (the survivalist acronym for When Shit Hits The Fan, according to the book). What this book will give you is an insight into the mid-life crisis of a fashionable [...]

Countless people have spent huge portions of their lives locked up in prison. A handful of them have grown stronger during it. Ghandi developed and strengthened many of his ideas and movement while being imprisoned by the British Empire. Bay Area rap innovator and legend Mac Dre went to prison and completely revolutionized rap after [...]