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Recent Articles:

The Money Game by Andrew Peterson
Sam Vaknin on economics as a field of psychology
Brandon Chan-Yung and Louise Norlie on the Postmodernist as posthuman
Hogeye Bill reviews Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine
On the Islands with Norbu Rinpoche: Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Two Poems by Elizabeth P. Glixman
Two Poems by John Oliver Hodges
Two Poems by Ellaraine Lockie
Three Poems by M. Blake
Three Poems by Justin Hyde
Three Poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Three Poems by Felino Soriano
Three Poems by john e
A Third of Methuselah: Fiction by Tim Millas
A Letter from Lotonym: Fiction by Ryan Undeen
Golden Egg: Fiction by Durenda
Sherlock Holmes and Al Capone Search through Time and Genre for Hannibal Lecter: Fiction by Brad Johnson
scarecrows: Fiction by J. A. Tyler
Chapters Four through Six of sLAsH by Bill Berry
Gabriel Ricard reviews Tatterdemalion and interviews the author, Ray Succre
Maybe: a short film by Cecelia Chapman
Three Songs by Al's Place Bluegrass Band
Eight Paintings by Randy Thurman
Nine Collages by Randel Plowman


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Maybe
by Cecelia Chapman, June 2008
Featuring music and art by Jeff Crouch and music by Grat Bodkin, Maybe aims to examine our modes of perception in less than a minute.

Sick Men
by Michael Medaglia, April 2008
Now that Americans have all "voted" in the Democratic and Republican primaries by drunkenly shouting the name of their preferred candidate to the employee at the drive-through, it's time to get down to the real business of electing a President.

The Atomic Adventures of Jack Keroauc
by Jack Feldstein, March 2008
One of the nicest things about taking road trips with homosexual junkies is that they don't fight you to get the girl.

Are You Smarter Than an Alien?
provided by BarelyPolitical.com, February 2008
What is the Supreme Law of the Land in the United States of America? And are there any Americans who actually feel bound by it?

Promises
by Leigh Herrick, February 2008
"she was kissed by the river
she was kissed and taken up
like her kissing god
like her saying goodbye "

Blow Rock Poem
by C. J. Laity, January 2008
C. J. Laity is the publisher of ChicagoPoetry.com and the organizer of the annual Chicago Poetry Fest. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times calls Laity "a major figure in the city's thriving poetry scene."

Poleo Speaking
a full-length documentary by León De La Rosa, December 2007
For the past several years the citizens of Poleo, a tiny community near the border of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, have been in the center of a legal, physical, and sometimes violent battle between developers who claim to own their land and the institutions which claim the land belongs to the federal government.

The Adventures of James Joyce
by Jack Feldstein, November 2007
It's not easy being an author of historical significance, especially when one is being narrated in neon.

The Big Brother State
by David Scharf and Stephen Taylor, October 2007
"The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom, but what we refer to as repressive legislation."

Tales of Dementia Episode One: Cell Phone
by David Brocca, June 2007
Our director from April 2007, David Brocca, now presents the first episode in his ongoing series, "Tales of Dementia."

Scan Pulse Symmetry
by Jeremy Hight, May 2007
This brain scan movie features Jeremy Hight's audio track composed of electronic loops edited by symmetry and sound forms to variation of brain scan data of W. Logan Fry.

Rats
by David Brocca, April 2007
Immersed in digital film technology, David's ideas and execution are on the cutting edge of the medium. In pursuit of his first feature, David accentuated his director's reel with two award-winning short films: The Man of Steal and Rats. His shorts have screened all over the country and in festivals such as Hollywood Digital Festival, Anchorage Alaska Film festival, Dragon Con, Screamfest La, and Cinequest.

Zabolika
by David Bobichon, March 2007
Because every atom in me as good as belongs to you.

Horizons and Intersections 2
by Derek von Essen and Don Pyle, February 2007
Horizons and Intersections continues.

syrupin w/9 letters and 5 spaces
by mIEKAL aND and Lyx Ish, January 2007
"+Crossmediate. Sound file response with voice / noise / ambience. Or reinterpret as a webpage. Take it off the computer completely & respond by book, mail, letterpress, paper sculpture, text/action. +/"

The Poet's View
by Mairéad Byrne, January 2007
A thorough study of the mind of the contemporary poet.

In Germania, The Portuguese Did Sing
by Geof Huth, January 2007
Geof Huth is an American who has lived on most continents on earth. Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of formats: lineated verse, prose, object, painting, drawing, voice, and film.

This Is Your Final Nitris
by Adeena Karasick, January 2007
Adeena Karasick's books are marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard) and "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein).

As You
by Donna Kuhn, January 2007
Donna Kuhn is a poet, author, dancer, visual and video artist. She has been mixing and crossing media for as long as she can remember. Lately she dabbles in sound text poetry and music to create original soundtracks for her video work. She lives in Northern California.

I Don't Want to Go to Nashville
by Rupert Owen and Snuffbox Films, January 2007
Don't worry, son. We Texans aren't very fond of the place, neither.

In Other Words
by Nico Vassilakis, January 2007
"This piece is a sampler of what I view to be another possibility of language in literature. Concrete/visual poetry in video/film form gets closer to how fascination with alphabet can be conveyed. The restless fragments of language waiting to form into meaning. The pre sentence, the present tense of looking."

Horizons and Intersections
by Derek von Essen and Don Pyle, December 2006
"Our environment changes so frequently that it's difficult to imagine the earth's surface as full. Humankind's sprawl over open territory combined with our skill at adapting to new environments poses the question: Do we notice the changes around us? As we transform, degrade and obliterate our natural surroundings for the sake of urbanization and new development, is our progress marked by how far we will go or how much space we have left on this planet?"

The SPUNN Fire Troupe
filmed by Eric Nelson, November 2006
Eric Nelson films the elaborate fire-spinning dance of two members of the SPUNN Fire Troupe. Featuring Jen the poi-spinner and KC the hooper.

A Half Man
by Firas Momani, October 2006
Throughout the era of film, one debate has raged on above all others: which is creepier, Muppets or Claymation? Firas Momani makes a strong argument for clay.

I Don't Fix a Word
by Donna Kuhn, September 2006
I Don't Fix a Word is an experimental mash-up of poetry and dance.

The Frozen Menance
by Darren Heroux, August 2006
Darren Heroux gives Unlikely 2.0 a hand in our neverending quest to bring to you increasingly accurate public service announcements. It's a scary world out there, folks.

Tuol Sleng
by Eric Nelson, July 2006
An exploration of Tuol Sleng Prison of Phnom Peng, otherwise known as "The Genocide Museum."

Rock Hard
by Jack Feldstein, June 2006
Perhaps Jack's decision to ask his girlfriend's family about the appearance of her pubis was not the excellent idea that it first seemed.

Free Pass
Cerealized Episode Twenty, reprinted May 2006
In which we learn the sinister truth about dating and orange juice.

The Junkie
by Mark A. Lewis, April 2006
It's sort of like the first act of Les Miz, but with more obscene gestures and T-shirts.

Booked for Safekeeping, Part Two
reprinted March 2006
We present the second half of Booked for Safekeeping. Created in 1960 by the New Orleans Police Department, Booked for Safekeeping was a training film to assist police officers in handling mental illness crises. It has since been released to the public domain.

Defective
by Oz Thomas, February 2006
A futuristic dystopia built on education and antidepressants.

Eugene's Dream
by Anton Krueger, December 2005
A short South African film by Anton Krueger and Post Punk Productions.

Booked for Safekeeping
reprinted November 2005
Booked for Safekeeping was created in 1960 by the New Orleans Police Department as a training film to assist police officers in handling mental illness crises. It was then released to the public domain.

Not Stopping for Death
by Stephen Mead, October 2005
A multimedia poetic experience.

Leaf
by Olde English, September 2005
Moving along with the Unlikely 2.0 theme of interspecies romance, Leaf explores the friendships that can arise between members of different evolutionary kingdoms.

Building on the Past
by Justin Cone, August 2005
In 2004, Building on the Past was awarded first prize in the Creative Commons' Moving Images Contest. It has since been distributed around the world in an effort to raise awareness about Creative Commons and the stifling intellectual property restrictions associated with U.S. copyright law.

Freethrow
by Desciple, July 2005
A comedic short featuring eternal damnation.

Patches the Horse
reprinted June 2005
in which the journalistic standards of Unlikely 2.0 soar to new heights.

Marking the Second Year of U.S. Occupation in Iraq
by Eric Blumrich, May 2005
A powerful series of recent images.

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