My sister leaves the Colony
We are on our way back from family dinner in my sister Emily’s car. Her financee Greg is in the front seat, trying to find “America Fuck Yeah” on a cd of novelty songs he keeps in the car. I haven’t sleep very much in a long time and they are giving me a pep [...]
Permission to Panic: Chaz Thorne’s Whirligig
At the age of 25, I had a nervous breakdown. A combination of a genetic predisposition to anxiety and a generational predisposition to getting an arts degree and believing a future would lie at the end of it, lead me to panic in a world where the Great Capitalist experiment is in the process of [...]
Necessary Evil
Vancouver-2006 A still smoking roach fills the room with gray smoke. On the table lies a hundred copies of “Call Me Evil”, Gaelan Bleasdale’s latest rap album. It’s been a month since he returned from tour. During the two months on the road he played fifty shows across the United States and didn’t hear his [...]
Cure#17: My best friend when I was 12 years old
“A Funeral” by Peter Diamond. Dressed in a perfectly pressed black suit I look like an emaciated super model before arriving for make up in the morning. I put on my most carefree smile and shake their hands with enthusiasm. Across the table are three incredibly sweet women who will decide whether I get the [...]
The Birds illustrated by Mike Holmes
Welcome to the Colony of Losers, a world of quarter life crises, anxiety, depression and the friends and the failures on the way to finding your future. This is the story of Michael Kimber’s panicked fall into adulthood. So I’m not the best at dealing with technological difficulties. So I noticed that the comic was [...]