• The bridges in Milltown are mostly pre-War and the rivets bleed rust in long shit-colored stains. If you were born here after 1970 the city was never safe and The Steel was never strong. The limp-dick trails of blue smoke barely rising over Milton County between the Lehigh and the Delaware wave like thin bone fingers when you’re driving through the mountains toward New Jersey or New Enlgand and everything below you is a clichéd rustbelt crèche. A goddamn fucking joke. You go to college somewhere else and pick another shitty town to repeat your parents’ lives in so you can say you left. Success is changing zip-codes.

    Fiction As War « christopher cocca (via nbr)

    Wow.

  • London Grill kindly asked The Lightroom to show work at this year’s Fairmount Arts Crawl. Come by and see us from 2-6pm on Sunday!

  • Why aren’t more philosophy professors–few of whom believe in God–standing up to fight for truth? Well, lots of them don’t like the dog and pony show of public debates, I’m sure. Lots of them don’t want to be impolite. But I’d also guess that they find the arguments so boring that it’s a drag to prepare. Nevertheless, this stuff matters and it’s important to wean the culture off superstition. Hitchens is more than pulling his weight, but I’m afraid most intellectuals who also happen to be atheists aren’t taking this culture war stuff seriously enough. So get in there faithless people! Mix it up!

    Easter Thoughts of Culture War