8.6.2004
Jennie Dorris
Finding Home
KnotMag Says Goodbye
I seem to have misplaced my speech.
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Mike’s Graduation
8.5.04
Michael Corey
KnotMag's Great Eight -
Instead, I stand before you today only in literary metaphor. It is 2004, and I am an online columnist for Knotmag.com. I wanted to speak to you today because I never got to give a graduation speech, even though Mrs. Bissell, our 12-grade English teacher thought I would be good at it.
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Home is where you might get eaten
8.4.04
Michael Corey
Finding Home -
My home is the small plot of wilderness in Minnesota, which mostly consists of 6 inches of topsoil resting on solid rock. Low-lying areas are constantly muddy, and trees planted in rigid rows replace logged-out areas that border the land to the north. In addition, you may have heard that Minnesota has a mosquito problem; the wise always carry head netting. My home is not perfect, but it's wild.
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Renting Religion
8.3.04
Giordana Segneri
KnotMag's Great Eight -
But this tiny, empty, one-room space -- going for a hefty 480 euro (about $580) while outfitted with next to nothing -- comes equipped with an altar, for all my at-home supplication needs.
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Nocturnal Siesta
8.2.04
Dave Burdick
Finding Home -
But that's the thing: everything's still about later. With your hopeful career in entertainment on hold, Sara back east, and all the work toward another degree, you feel like you're not even going to exist for two years, and you hope to God this is all worth it by then.
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First Night with Kittens
8.1.04
Joe Heffron
KnotMag's Great Eight -
They hazard to sniff my bracing hand, salty, cold and bloodless as clay, softly toothing (Should i make them stop?) and licking, stopping to stare in terror at my arching architecture rising above and the too-alive eyes staring back from their golem plaything.
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The Death of the Musical Moron Twins
8.2.04
Rob Margetta
Dan Miller
Dan Miller
The Musical Moron Twins -
We spent a year building this house. Now we're going to burn the motherfucker down.
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Pop Music's 9/11 Problem
7.26.04
Tim Grierson
Diversions -
Why have our top musical acts been unsuccessful in reflecting the tenor of our troubled times? Because they’re too famous to get it right.
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Rooting for Will Ferrell
7.12.04
Tim Grierson
Diversions -
Can a former SNL star make the jump to movies without becoming a smug egomaniac? Anchorman suggests it can happen.
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The Fire Theft Vs. The Get Up Kids
7.6.04
Rob Margetta
Dan Miller
Dan Miller
The Musical Moron Twins -
The Fire Theft is an ethereal, atmospheric collection with lead singer Jeremy Enigk's exasperated vocals high in the mix. The Get Up Kids, on the other hand, are back to their old tricks.
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Graceless and Necessary
6.28.04
Tim Grierson
The Manchurian Candidates
8.6.04
Al Simonis
In My Humble Opinion -
The Manchurian Candidate: A great film (or at least a good one) to go out on.
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The question is, do you feel safer?
8.4.04
Travis Daub
Politicasting -
Let’s avoid that same situation with terror, and quash the problem where it starts. Instead of battling the terrorists after they’ve sworn to hate the U.S., we need to make it more difficult for them to hate the U.S.
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Parting Ways
8.3.04
A.J. Daulerio
Tiny Hands Typing -
I could see how it would rub people the wrong way. But was he a bad guy? He couldn’t be in my eyes. Because I’d heard some of the most gloriously incomprehensible noises come out of his ass.
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Last Call
8.2.04
Will Hickman
The Last Sports Bar -
What do the American people crave? Public crucifixions and miraculous comebacks. The only thing better than a celebrity falling to the bottom is one redeemed from the gutter.
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Sunlight on a Broken Column
7.28.04
Adam Kinesis
Adam Kinesis' Glory Hole -
But before I leave you cold and alone in a world you never knew, I suppose that I have some wrapping up to do. You demand some denouement in the tragedy of my leaving, for surely there are some of life's sexy little mysteries I have not yet addressed. Please allow me to complete you now.
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Greenwich Village Loses Its ‘Idiot’
7.27.04
Matthew Sheahan
Notes from a Polite New Yorker -
The Idiot could be counted on as the perfect antithesis of the ever-increasing numbers of sleek and trendy bars that have encroached on Greenwich Village and the gritty meatpacking district.
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SportsBar25
7.26.04
Will Hickman
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