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Bookless: Review of My Fridge
Bookless: Review of My Fridge

I just got a fridge. Now the bobcats and bears only have me to eat. Learn how.

a portrait in three parts
a portrait in three parts

1

i have a picture of you somewhere

and you are wearing a blue ski jacket

you were almost always smiling

but i think you were caught off...

Bookless: Review of Secrets
Bookless: Review of Secrets

Have you ever done something you can't brag about because they might kill you? Shhh! You just made a secret.

Will This Be The Worst Wrestlemania Ever?
Will This Be The Worst Wrestlemania Ever?

Literary and Pro Wrestling enthusiast, Joe "The Golden Bear" Lindsay, returns to the internet with this liveblog from his living room watching Wrestlemania. Join...

no telephone
no telephone

We drove from 7-11 to the convenience store to gas station. We asked this girl where the payphone was. It was just an excuse...

selected tweets: zack schuster
selected tweets: zack schuster

last night at a time i cannot recall i had a severe desire for pizza. i am saving money so that i can travel...

Selected Comments – http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/
Selected Comments – http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/

-I haven’t read your comment section in a long time. Felt some feelings I haven’t felt in a while.

1:09 PM

 

-but deep down you know

 

deep...

Blind Date With SSION
Blind Date With SSION

IN THIS EPISODE ARTIST GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU AND MUSICAL ICON CODY CRITCHELOE ARE PAIRED UP IN A QUIRKY MCDONALD’S DATE…FROM HELL! LETS SEE...

Bookless: Review of Book Textures
Bookless: Review of Book Textures

I touch things. Here are some books I touched and how that made me feel.

On the Death of Love in Contemporary Short Fiction
On the Death of Love in Contemporary Short Fiction

I am currently taking an Advanced Workshop in Fiction course for my undergraduate program, and two of the anthologies that the class has read...

Some Ideas for Public Access TV Shows
Some Ideas for Public Access TV Shows

1. Church and State

This show would take normal C-Span political coverage of congress or the state assembly and...

interview with mira gonzalez
interview with mira gonzalez

can you see yourself with eight or nine medium-large, mostly visible tattoos?

i am currently visualizing myself with that many tattoos. seems like a good...

Bookless: Review of Gas Pumps
Bookless: Review of Gas Pumps

Here we see gas pumps are the distant, inbred cousins in technology’s illustrious family tree.

INTERVIEW WITH HORSE GHOST
INTERVIEW WITH HORSE GHOST

Did an interview Mathew Donahoo who edited Horse Ghost.

NC: What is the meaning of Horse Ghost?

MD: It’s just funny, I think, is the...

to my fellow ladies and lady artists
to my fellow ladies and lady artists

(inspired by conversations with secret girl group and genevieve belleveau and written as tho i am julia stiles from 10 things i hate about...

Blake Butler as a Southern Writer
Blake Butler as a Southern Writer

I read this poll concerning the state of Alabama.   It states that 21% of Alabama Republicans do not believe in interracial marriage...

Trend Watch: Searching Youtube Via IMG # (Is this a trend?)
Trend Watch: Searching Youtube Via IMG # (Is this a trend?)

I recommend people search youtube with IMG_**** (*any four digits).

Bookless: Review of Social Interactions in Chicago
Bookless: Review of Social Interactions in Chicago

Here are my social failures listed in sequence of how they happened. It’s a good warning to anyone who might want to meet people....

I WANNA GET SYMBIOTIC WIT U
I WANNA GET SYMBIOTIC WIT U

I WANNA GET SYMBIOTIC WIT U, from Bulk_Cult_ure family member, Labanna Babalon.

Defining monogamy.
Defining monogamy.

In May I looked at you.

You were there where I was.

It was a stupid place to run into each other, but that’s how these...

Why I am Going to South Korea
Why I am Going to South Korea

I am going to South Korea because I feel like committing suicide.

Feel like, if someone left me alone long enough with a shotgun, I...

Two New Designs from Goldfarb and Goldfarb
Two New Designs from Goldfarb and Goldfarb

Like ten people in the world should be allowed to produce content, and that guy...

The Hierarchies of the Deli Meat #12-22
The Hierarchies of the Deli Meat #12-22

 

I am now going to continue my hierarchies of the deli meat, which I began last week.

This is getting hard.

 

This week is the...

Food Fights (Are Hot)
Food Fights (Are Hot)

...

GOING TO AWP THIS WEEK
GOING TO AWP THIS WEEK

I don’t know what AWP stands for-

Just googled it, association of writers and writing programs.

I am not in a writing program, perhaps while I...

List of things I want (3:30 AM 2/22/2012)
List of things I want (3:30 AM 2/22/2012)

reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups
reeses cups

An Introduction To Deep Current Thinking
An Introduction To Deep Current Thinking

Mike Bushnell and Andrea Coates chat about thinking over the Bulk Culture dinner table...

Bookless: Review of Dead Plants
Bookless: Review of Dead Plants

This is a good thing. It’s a dead thing. It used to be a plant. I call it Mr. Yellow because yellow is not...

Letters from older men
Letters from older men

C.

“I just realized that I don’t know your age. So I guess that would be a good question to ask.”

“Oh god, I’m old. This...

Glib Art by Mean Rich People
Glib Art by Mean Rich People

HTMLGiant published a thing about one of my projects the other day. The gist of the comments was that the content was stupid, racist,...

Virtual Pet
Virtual Pet

Žižek draws an interesting comparison in Organs Without Bodies regarding the Tamagotchi, the human interactions with it, as well as emotion towards an object...

thoughts on making-up slang phrases
thoughts on making-up slang phrases

sometimes at work, i’ll make up phrases and use them as if they are already-established phrases.

like, if i see someone at work who...

Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: crazy girls are hot
Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: crazy girls are hot

In this Drivetime Chat, Shaun admits that he likes the ladies who have their brainwaves a little scrambled. Click the above picture to hear...

This Is What New Is
This Is What New Is

Click the image above to see Labanna Babalon’s Bulk Culture debut. In this dreamy lifestyle video Labanna shares perspective on what Bulk Culture is...

Stupid Haircuts And Other Problems
Stupid Haircuts And Other Problems

         When I was a baby, I had almost no hair. My mom put tiny bows on my head.

         When I was in fourth...

A Look Back at A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and The Corrections
A Look Back at A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and The Corrections

I had never read Dave Egger’s A.H.W.O.S.G till recently.

I read How we are Hungry years ago and found it boring so I never thought...

Net Soul™ Searching
Net Soul™ Searching

Months ago I began to pursue the concept of something I have come to refer to as the Net Soul™. After seeking guidance from...

Just Because You Can’t Tell One Brunette Girl From Another Does Not Mean That I Am Stalking You
Just Because You Can’t Tell One Brunette Girl From Another Does Not Mean That I Am Stalking You

And not only am I not stalking you, I am avoiding you. I think you’re
mediocre at life at best, and I’ll be honest,...

“HUZZAH!” : Unpublished Justin Taylor Blurbs ~ 2009 – 2011
“HUZZAH!” : Unpublished Justin Taylor Blurbs ~ 2009 – 2011

This is just a short dumb thing. The title is misleading…

Has anyone had this kind of a conversation before: you say you don’t know...

The Help: Chopped and Screwed
The Help: Chopped and Screwed

Michael Bible continues his remix of The Help...

Audio Interlude: When I Was Witch Haus
Audio Interlude: When I Was Witch Haus

Last winter I got really into trolling the secret Witch Haus groups on facebook.  It was a very therapeutic way to blow off internet...

More Spells, Tricks and Potions
More Spells, Tricks and Potions

Very special potion that will turn you into a snake

Collect saliva from six different people.

Put saliva in baby blue Gatorade bottle. For better results,...

PARADE OF GROTESQUES: Portraits guest columnists on The Wall Street Journal’s Financial Adviser blog
PARADE OF GROTESQUES: Portraits guest columnists on The Wall Street Journal’s Financial Adviser blog

My brother's principle ambition in life is to make 100 million dollars...

The Hierarchy of Deli Meats, #1-11
The Hierarchy of Deli Meats, #1-11

From 2006-2010 I worked at a grocery store in Ohio. During that time, I mostly worked in the deli section. I frequently considered the...

Interview With Spencer Madsen
Interview With Spencer Madsen

NC: describe something, like a moment, when you realized that time has passed? SM:I ran into a friend from high school on the street yesterday....

Songs About Eating Pussy
Songs About Eating Pussy

Hey, do you like music? Here are some cool songs about pussy...

Art Break Hotel
Art Break Hotel

CLICK THAT IMAGE UP THERE ^^^ TO WATCH ART BREAK HOTEL

Below is my rejected proposal for Andrea Zittel’s Indy Island Residency.  I...

My Friend Mijinyawa
My Friend Mijinyawa

Dayton Castleman introduces you to Mijinyawa Muhammad Aluelemhegbe through photos and Facebook.

Every Vitamin Deficiency I’ve Ever Had
Every Vitamin Deficiency I’ve Ever Had

I’m very, very frail. So frail, in fact, that when I was born, I didn’t even have the strength to cry. I was four...

Clubs are Hell; or, a Girl on Acid contemplates the Night Life
Clubs are Hell; or, a Girl on Acid contemplates the Night Life

For a While I was hanging with this Girl who wanted to be called Bella, after the Character from Twilight. We met at Bartending...

Dear [Girl Sitting Directly Behind Me On The Megabus],
Dear [Girl Sitting Directly Behind Me On The Megabus],

Shut the fuck up. Please. Listen to your iPod. Go to sleep. Die. I don’t care. Just, please stop talking.

I understand your doting parents...

Which Ex To Call Next: A Narcissist’s Guide To Rekindling Old Flames
Which Ex To Call Next: A Narcissist’s Guide To Rekindling Old Flames

Thinking Catalog, Thought Catalog™'s satirical offspring, is extending the twitter brand into full posts. Welcome to Thinking Catalog only on Bulk Culture....

Summarized Lecture: You and Your Research by Richard Hamming, Bell Communications Research Seminar, 1986
Summarized Lecture: You and Your Research by Richard Hamming, Bell Communications Research Seminar, 1986

"Why do some scientists do 'great work' and others with the same skills, intelligence and resources do not?"

Tao Lin says there is no...

Bookless: Review of Blurbs for There is No Year
Bookless: Review of Blurbs for There is No Year

☆ 1 star: Dennis Cooper’s blurb is a mini-memoir about the future of the author and his book. It consists of two sentences. In...

A Very Special Trick That Will Turn You Into A Butterfly
A Very Special Trick That Will Turn You Into A Butterfly

Eat it alive. That’s it. Simple, huh?

Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: more talk of dildos
Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: more talk of dildos

In Shaun Gannon’s third Drivetime Chat, he will show you that he can’t get his mind off of sex toys.  Click the above picture to...

Women Laughing Alone With Salad
Women Laughing Alone With Salad

Women Laughing Alone With Salad <—click

ATTENTION EVERYONE
ATTENTION EVERYONE

Mind your own goddam business and be happy and live your own life without criticizing mine or anyone else’s. Please. Just for one day.

Maggie Lee is a student in New Jersey and she eats Taco Bell
Maggie Lee is a student in New Jersey and she eats Taco Bell

i linked two poems in the last post i wrote. they were written by maggie lee. she emailed me and thanked me for linking...

This Is Because People Are Terrible
This Is Because People Are Terrible

Diva’s dead aka Whitney Houston died today, on the morning of the Grammy’s in her hotel room. She was the opener for Clive Davis’...

I now wear a knee brace to play basketball
I now wear a knee brace to play basketball

Basketball courts have a certain structure to them.

You go, you warm up by dribbling around for a while, take some shots. But really what...

A Theory of The Alt Lit Scene
A Theory of The Alt Lit Scene

I feel like the alt lit scene has become a source of alternative entertainment and not just something that directly concerns literature.

Most people that...

Love Potion (Very Efficient)
Love Potion (Very Efficient)

1 rat’s tail. ½ pony leg...

WHY YOU SHOULD STOP TRYING AND HATE FICTION AS MUCH AS ME
WHY YOU SHOULD STOP TRYING AND HATE FICTION AS MUCH AS ME

“To me, life is a bore…I saw a guy working in that tunnel I came through here today.   What would a guy stand around...

HelenRuth31
HelenRuth31

Tonight, I checked my Facebook account while working on an essay for my Introduction to Ethics class, since it is now impossible to commit...

Intercepted Mail: Matthew Holmes Applies to Work With Rick Ross
Intercepted Mail: Matthew Holmes Applies to Work With Rick Ross

@rickyrozay, i am writing to you today, to discuss my interests in being signed to your label...

Catholic Mullet
Catholic Mullet

Mexican Catholic schools are evil. Because when Venezuelan kids move to Mexico, nuns make them cut their mullets.

I was in second grade, and everyone...

Crocodile: Russia’s Latest Fatal Street Drug
Crocodile: Russia’s Latest Fatal Street Drug

Ever fantasize about losing every white blood cell in your body then watching your skin deteriorates in front of your face and you really...

is having a lot of blankets a good substitute for not having a boyfriend? no.
is having a lot of blankets a good substitute for not having a boyfriend? no.

also 2 no 3 years ago Sam Pink sent me a copy of his book Frowns Need Friends Too for review. well i'm busy. i...

thoughts on not-liking a lot of things
thoughts on not-liking a lot of things

i feel like i pretty much dislike things more than i like things.

i find myself generally thinking “i don’t like this” more than i...

The Unhelpful
The Unhelpful

I’m a southerner and growing up my family employed a black woman named Juanita Conner to clean our house and look after my brothers...

Is infiltrating the literary mainstream a necessary part of indie publishing’s long term survival?
Is infiltrating the literary mainstream a necessary part of indie publishing’s long term survival?

While writing my last post...

Audio Interlude: You Move Me
Audio Interlude: You Move Me

Bloggin on the job in my 16′ truck yesterday.  Download and take me with you! Let us move through this mystery together.

Halftime In America Psychographic
Halftime In America Psychographic

Clint Eastwood's new commercial for Chrysler starts meta and ends in your heart. This is the true poetics of this generation. It is...

Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: possible solution to the dick problem
Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: possible solution to the dick problem

In the second installment of Shaun Gannon’s Drivetime Chats, he suggests an idea that may help men come to terms with what has caused...

The girl who stole my cute erasers
The girl who stole my cute erasers

She had two very cute pencils and I wanted them. One of them had a snowball on top (instead of an eraser). Inside of...

Jordan Castro’s Kadian
Jordan Castro’s Kadian

This is what happens when a man can no longer pretend. Castro goes for the extraordinary, this seems like a birth, a body covered...

Gmail Chat between Matt Margo and Omar De Col from April 20, 2011
Gmail Chat between Matt Margo and Omar De Col from April 20, 2011

Matt Margo and Omar De Col can both be found on the Internet.

4:42 P.M.    Matt:  hey bb

Omar:  sup bb
i...

Excuse Me Barry Graham: emotions behind the comments of Gabby Gabby
Excuse Me Barry Graham: emotions behind the comments of Gabby Gabby

‘When I wake up in the morning I start out my day looking for sexism. Trying to catch it lurking in the shadows of...

Eating Peanut Butter Sandwiches on the Moon
Eating Peanut Butter Sandwiches on the Moon

Most people like stuff because other people like it. They want the people who like this stuff to like them too. ...

Everything You Need to Know About Super Bowl XLVI (That Doesn’t Actually Involve Football)
Everything You Need to Know About Super Bowl XLVI (That Doesn’t Actually Involve Football)

Later today, the New England Patriots will play the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.

XLVI means that this is the 46th Super Bowl...

Why Everyone Hates Tom Brady and Jonathan Safran Foer
Why Everyone Hates Tom Brady and Jonathan Safran Foer

Everyone hates Tom Brady and Jonathan Safran Foer. The easiest reason to understand is that they...

photocopies famous people have given me
photocopies famous people have given me

i moved all week and today was desk organizing day.

this is a list of some of the things i have photocopies of that other...

Life Sucks (Part 2)
Life Sucks (Part 2)

I don’t remember anything about Pokemon because I watched it when I was in middle school and I was a really sad teenager and...

Bulk Culture Feature Narrative: Temple
Bulk Culture Feature Narrative: Temple

It is late in the morning on this hot summer day but hardly any light finds its way into Mary’s bedroom at her parent’s...

Chael Sonnen Gives Good Interview Baby
Chael Sonnen Gives Good Interview Baby

I think this interview with Chael Sonnen is the best piece of art I’ve come across recently. He is the heir to Evel Knievel....

My First Mystical Psychosis™
My First Mystical Psychosis™

just look at this little thing I mean really.  it looks like a flipping inverted crucifix. thats some exorcist satan spawn shit if i ever...

Interview with Andrea Coates
Interview with Andrea Coates

I interviewed Andrea Coates. I like her because she is so weird.  She is like from another planet, Canada. Andrea coates blogs here....

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I have an obsession.

An obsession with deal-hunting.

Deal-hunting is a working-class consumerist phenomenon.

It’s been a Real Thing in my life since high school.

Deal-hunting obsession flares...

Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: don’t annoy employees
Drivetime Chat with Shaun Gannon: don’t annoy employees

Bulk Culture is proud to present Shaun Gannon’s Drivetime Chats, a regular video feature.  Click the image that says “I am Shaun Gannon” to...

Life Sucks (Part 1)
Life Sucks (Part 1)

A girl stole some cute erasers from me when I was in second grade. The erasers were small and smelled like candy.

I killed my...

A First Hand Account Of Stacey Irvine’s Life-Altering Nugget Feast
A First Hand Account Of Stacey Irvine’s Life-Altering Nugget Feast

17-year-old Stacey Irvine was rushed to the hospital late last month after she collapsed as a result of eating a chicken nugget based...

thoughts on the word “treated” as slang
thoughts on the word “treated” as slang

i hear the word “treated” a lot at work and around the area i live. i really enjoy hearing it used and using it...

10 online lit vags I would lick clean on a sweaty summer day
10 online lit vags I would lick clean on a sweaty summer day

I know with the title all you are interested in is the list. You’re probably not even reading this, probably scrolling down to find...

I daydream about books I’ll never write all the time
I daydream about books I’ll never write all the time

Today I went to see the Harlem Globetrotters with a 13 year old. Went home and...

Mom I’m a poet
Mom I’m a poet

Click Noah Cicero’s Smiling Face to see him try to tell his mother about learning to write poetry.

The Future of Literature
The Future of Literature

This is on the future of literature serious post about serious stuff...

7 Ideas That Shook The Universe
7 Ideas That Shook The Universe

I am currently enrolled in a class called “7 Ideas That Shook The Universe” at Kent State University, which, according to myedu.com, exists...




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The first time I was ‘someone else’ online

It was my first semester in high school and I had a huge crush on...

Bookless: Review of My Fridge
Bookless: Review of My Fridge
I just got a fridge. Now the bobcats and bears only have me to eat. Learn how.