As Alex said, the people working to put together Bare Bones magazine are "a collection of people who desperately want to bring you into our world and make our world your world and your world our world." Ranging from phenomenal photography to extraordinary writing, it's lookin good, folks.
One of my favorite entries so far:
A guy was digging a hole by the side of the road as I walked home. There was a mound of dirt about 3-feet high next to him and he was waist deep in the ground, busting a shovel against the dirt to loosen it up.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“I’m digging a hole man,” he responded. He took a minute to wipe the sweat off of his brow.
“The air smells like ginger huh?” I asked. It was oven-like outside. Warm and sweet.
“Que?” he asked. He peered down into the hole.
“Why are you digging a hole?”
“To put in a sprinkler.”
“Why are you putting in a sprinkler? This is a desert. It’s supposed to be dry.”
He suddenly looked up at me and stared hard. We stood a few feet apart; him deep in the ground, me on the dusty sidewalk.
“Why do I care if it’s a desert? I get paid to make it not,” he said. And turning back to his shovel, “I get paid to help people lie to themselves!”
Alex Christman looks up the definition of 'metaphor' every single day of his life.
Ahem. This is the part when you go to their blog and see more, subsequently sending something genius you've been hiding from society all of this time.
Well. This is a very nice plug, right here.
ReplyDeleteWhen are you sending in your personal essay about being abroad???
I'll probably end up writing something when it's all said and done.
ReplyDeletePerhaps. We'll see.