Fiction
Shitty Mickey
Shithome • World Premiere! • TV Guide • Extra!
Tune in NOW to the next explosive episode of SHITTY MICKEY!
You don’t want to miss the dynamite action: guns, hot musketeers, coprohillia and Disney! And coming soon, naked Palin! (Turns out she gets into a limo just like Britney, who’d’uv thunk it?)
This week: Dick Cheney, a coke orgy, and a bloodbath!
Or, go back to where it all started, The World Premiere of the Shitty Mickey show! Which features financial collapse and a real life glimpse into the life, and deeply personal life, of the infamous star!
Oh, and we got EXTRAS!
See it NOW! Or forever live with regrets.
Contributors
John ReedJohn Reed's novels include A Still Small Voice (Delacorte 2000) and Snowball's Chance, which will be published by Roof Books this September. He lives in Manhattan.
Michele WitchipooMichele Witchipoo is a comic artist.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
George W. Bush: Portraits of Courage
By Gaby Collins-FernandezFEB 2020 | ArtSeen
Considering that as President, Bush orchestrated the circumstances for these paintings, I wanted to know whether and how he accounts for the politics of his aesthetics. As a civilian, I was literally a piece of his constitutive power as Head of State; and the prescribed outlet for my rage at his misrepresentations and their consequences was essentially voting. Now, to our mutual surprise, we share a vocation, which means that I can evaluate him as a peer.
Rebecca Solnit's Call Them By Their True Names
By Deena ElGenaidiMAR 2019 | Books
Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection Call Them By Their True Names deals with an America in crisis.
Their Money or Your Life
By Paul MattickMAY 2020 | Field Notes
The new virus, easier for the rich to guard against and to treat when stricken, illuminates the depth of social inequality and the general subordination of everyday life, including the requirements of human and animal health, to “the economy,” as we call the system subordinating the production of goods and services to the need of capitalist investors to accumulate profits.
Money Magic
By Paul MattickOCT 2020 | Field Notes
That the feasibility of using the ongoing depression to further drive down wages, cut benefits, and worsen working conditions is being discussed via a social-scientific dispute—whether a short-term relief measure is a disincentive to work at a time when 30 million jobs have vanished—tells us more about the nature of economics than about the motivation for employment. It provides further support, if any is needed, for historian of science Jerome Ravetz’s description of economics as a “folk science,” “a body of accepted knowledge whose function is not to provide the basis for further advance but to offer comfort and reassurance to some body of believers.”2
