Byline: Giri Nathan

Crystal Castles

The stacks’ crystalline mysteries.

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Color War

Our guns were semi-automatic, which means you could shoot as fast as you pulled the trigger, and even an amateur like myself found myself reeling off three or four paintballs a second. I could feel every individual shot through its reverberations—no real recoil to speak of, but a satisfying pneumatic thwunk as the ball hurtled through the barrel.

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Ham Radio

Chorally.

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Giri Nathan

An inability to pronounce one’s name can meddle with one’s self-esteem. Child psychologists might study this some day: take a roomful of first-generation American children and ask them to introduce themselves to one another, then watch them struggle to eke out the syllables on loan from the lands their parents left behind.

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127 Unclaimed Rap Names

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Rolling in the Dope

Multi-talented Kuperman’s vertiginous thetic theater reviewed.

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PG Teen Rebellion

“We have a report of three men running out of the forest and chasing a vehicle, one of whom was wearing a trench coat and a hat.”

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Re: Marks

Formal colons & ampersands.

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Uncommon App

Looking at the Cannon Club application, we expected to find a boring series of blanks waiting to be dutifully filled out; we were greeted instead by an ambiguous little document that contained, yes, several boring blanks, but also plenty of intriguing blanks that deserved some unpacking.

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Journey to Chapin

Finding (and eating) the dopest taco in town.

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An Uncommon App

Perturbed by Cannon Club’s ballsy application.

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Over-Love

Until the February of his eleventh year, Joseph Cohen felt an inordinate kind of sympathy for all earthly things he encountered, even—and in some moods, especially—for inanimate objects.

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