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Can I Get in the Van?

Illustration by Todd Ryan White In the summer of 1981, a young and unknown 20-year-old punk from Washington, DC, named Henry Garfield jumped up onstage to sing an encore with Black Flag at a show in…
AUTHOR:Erick Lyle
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4049 words)

Postscript: C. Everett Koop, 1916-2013

C. Everett Koop was not a moderate man. He was not a Democrat and he was not particularly democratic, either. He could be gruff, unpleasant, and dismissive. I doubt he and I agreed on any political…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1165 words)

Wells Tower's Burning Man Experience - GQ February 2013

The land, the very atmosphere  out there, is alien, malignant, the executioner of countless wagon trains. I am afraid to crack the window. Huge dervishes o
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 10, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1456 words)

Yosemite reverie

I sit in an alpine lake basin and eat my lunch: cheese and crackers, lemonade, and an apple. I lay my head on my knapsack, which is almost an extension of myself. I have had it for a long time, and…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1962 words)

How a Gun-Loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons

I love guns. I'm from West Texas -- most of us harbor respect for guns, if not outright love. I vacillate between the high sixties and the mid eighties, which is good for a woman who only gets to…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2865 words)
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