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Editor's Log: Changes

September 23, 2008

I’ve struggled for almost a month with how to write this. I take that back. I know how to write it, rather I’ve struggled with what to say. Even now the words won’t come out right.» Full Story

Editor's Log: The Rise and Fall of the American Hipster
July 29, 2008
I found myself recently in a hipster bar in Columbus, Ohio, listening to some local noise-rock band and surrounded by people in ironic clothes, with ironic mustaches, ironically sipping PBRs.

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What is it about the Bat-man?
July 15, 2008
What is it about Batman that draws us to him? Is it his dark history — his parents brutally murdered in front of him? His humanism from his lack of superpowers? The colorful villains he so often » Full Story

Robot Love
June 30, 2008
The first robot I fell in love with was Uncle Pauly’s from the Rocky movies. Here was someone I could program to do anything I wanted — clean my room, take out the garbage, feed the d » Full Story

Editor's Log: A Special Guest
June 20, 2008
Ed. Note: I was stopped at my son's daycare the other day by someone who was wondering if I had left Graffiti. No, I haven't gone anywhere. For Ben's last issue, I promised him he could write the edit » Full Story

Wistfulness and West Virginia
June 3, 2008

I — like many my age, I believe — have a fondness for nostalgia. Like the characters in Noah Baumbach’s “Kicking and Screaming,” I’m instantly nostalgi » Full Story

Editor's Log: White Water Rafting
May 27, 2008
My first trip down the white waters was almost 12 years ago. My dad took a group of my friends and I. Us being the brash young teens we were, we were confident none of us would end up overboard. So we » Full Story

Eat Your Heart Out, People
May 20, 2008
Eat your heart out, People. No, not the celebrity gossip magazine. You readers, you people, with a capital P. Eat your heart out.

You have in your hands, I believe, a fantastic issue of Gr » Full Story

For the Birds ....
May 12, 2008

My first job out of college was as a bird watcher. OK, technically, it was as a sales assistant at Bird Watcher’s Digest, one of the country’s oldest bird watching magazines. » Full Story

Editor's Log: Graffiti Theft Auto IV
May 6, 2008
We here at Graffiti are a lot like “Grand Theft Auto.” We jack each other’s pens left and right, we’re constantly typing word bullets, and our Macs are used as underground drug communication devices. » Full Story

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