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Call Us If You Stop Breathing
I work as a freelance editor. I make sure that the answers on multiple choice tests for commercial drivers license exams are in the right order, things like that. This doesnโt pay a living wage. For ...
Listen: I Want To Believe Author A.M. Gittlitz Live in Chicago
On Friday, May 27th, Hard Crackers editor Jarrod Shanahan hosted author and Antifada host A.M. Gittlitz for a lively discussion of the latter’s book I Want To Believe (Pluto Press, 2020) at Pilsen Community Books in ...
How a Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police
During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smokeย canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street ...
One Million Dollars
In February 2011, my Brooklyn-based, French-language rock band, Les Sans Culottes, was asked to perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Chelsea. The band would perform a couple of songs between various improv skits and ...
Welcome to Chicago!
Last summer when I was planning my move to Chicago, a friend who grew up on the West Side of the city gave me some tips about avoiding car break-ins: always lock my car, avoid driving ...
EDDY GET READY, ROCK STEADY!: The Equals, Eddy Grant, and Trump
Most people who are old enough remember the reggae singer Eddy Grant for his popular radio song in 1983 called Electric Avenue.ย ย Fewer know about his earlier seminal London rock combo, the Equals.ย Eddy Grant is ...
Finding Ukraine in the US
I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didnโt work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...
“Fight the Government, Not Your Neighbor”
Last summer, I went to see my family in northern California, in a small town at the base of the highest peak of the Cascade range just south of the Oregon border. I woke up one ...
No Standing
Put aside justice, stability and security, the little creature comforts that we all deserve, or finally paying your bills without a knot twisting in your stomachโthen maybe the greatest pleasure in landing a living wage job ...
The Anniversary
The anniversary.ย Two years ago, March 16th, 2020, the last time I lived in California. I took these shots on what was the eve before the world shut down. Looking west, the sun was setting over ...