We Built This Shitty / Thoughts on The Flame Alphabet
FLAME ON! The International Necronautical Society doesn’t actually exist. Or, at least it doesn’t exist in the way we expect an organization to, with charters and members and logos and conventions with peel-away nametags. Created in 1999 by the novelist Tom McCarthy, Wikipedia describes the INS as a “semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes … Read more
we bit the cliché because we were provoked / a review of melancholia
Provocateurs like Lars von Trier, the Danish filmmaker responsible for Melancholia, thrive on audience response. They’re Tinkerbells soliciting applause. The nature of the feelings they inspire only matters in that said feelings exist. Like all egoists, Tinkerbell doesn’t want you to love her. She wants you to notice her. & Lars von Trier has made … Read more
mandatory pizza party
In an effort to increase productivity and morale, middle managers at JonathanVolk.org have taken inspiration from our North Korean anti-capitalist business partners to make the following mandatory: Pizza parties Expressive note-taking at meetings (vocal hmms and ohhhs are highly encouraged if not [yet] mandatory) Fun!ny anecdotes that teach lessons (anecdotes should be drawn not from … Read more
100% chance of tigers
Q: Why did they shoot the tigers? A: Because they were dangerous. Q: Did the police know the tigers were rare? A: Yes. Q: Did that matter? A: It only made their shooting more necessary. Q: Why? A: We don’t want to die from something rare.
she writes the coldest sentences in english,
so cold all matter seems to stop and all that matters seems to start.
it’s okay to disappear
[cure for insomnia no. 713] It’s okay to disappear Repeat every night until you fall asleep. Works best if you make it sound like prayer.
we hated the way we sounded, we brushed our teeth with knives
Today CEO and co-founder of JonathanVolk.org, Jonathan Volk, asked us to share something about ourselves. He asked us to be specific and vivid. At first we were afraid. Some of us cried, but we knew well enough to make these criers feel immediately horrible. Some of us suggested hobbies and we mocked them for caring … Read more
caketrain no. 9
We are pleased to announce preorders for Caketrain 09, which features work from our very own Jonathan Volk. Get excited. Get down. Get textual. Get dirty. Just don’t get us fired.
