Drunk Monkeys Publishes “The Revolution Game”

Today, independent online journal Drunk Monkeys published Storey’s political essay “The Revolution Game.” This essay ponders the question of why American Millennials haven’t rebelled against their society and instead seem to be laboring within a system that continually fails them.…

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It’s 2015 and You are Alive

There’s a lot going on. There always is. Despite the efforts of various media outlets, phone applications, and the narrative brain to confine your existence to a narrow set of coherent and perfectly tailored activities/perceptions, reality is a cacophony of…

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Independence Day

“There was an exodus of birds in the trees because they didn’t know we were only pretending. And the people all looked up and looked pleased and the birds flew around like the whole world was ending. And I, I…

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New Orleans March

The nights got suddenly sultry this week, as the bobbing of 40s and 70s and back again gave way to 80s and March did its job of actually transitioning the seasons over into something warmer and more life-giving than the…

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For the Love of the Train

I took the streetcar home yesterday. I don’t always take the streetcar to and from work, like I did with BART when I worked at Glide in San Francisco. I often take the car, dropping Alex off on the way,…

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Institutional Idealism

When I worked at Glide in San Francisco, I worked with an intern from Germany on a project about the nature of Glide as an institution. It was a special project for the then CEO, newly hired, who wanted to…

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First of the Month

When I worked at Glide, there was continual discussion about the intramonthly rhythms of our clientele. Specifically, things were usually pretty thin at the outset of the month when people on some sort of federal or local aid received their…

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Top Nine Highlights and Lowlights for 2009

I’m thinking about compiling one of these for the decade too, but let’s look at what made 2009 great and not so great. In summation, looking back at this year, it’s been one of those seminal and all-encompassing annums. It’s…

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