Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Orison
Three days later, we bought a Newton’s cradle. Put it on the table, and heartsick, tried to click click click our way...
Meteorology
I can predict the future. A little. And everyone loves to talk about the weather. I find what patterns I...
Q&A
[What are some common sources of light?] And, can light survive exposure to extreme temperatures? These are both questions we are...
Adjudged
William Spalyng, who, for selling putrid beef…was put upon the pillory, and the carcasses were burnt beneath. Arthur Griffiths, The...
Pirate mailbox
In Cincinnati, just south of the Hamilton County Zoo, on a south-east corner where Erkenbrecher Avenue intersects Vine Street,...
Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus
He had four hippos in his private zoo and would visit them each dawn in his silk kimono to explain survival...
Radio
Sometimes late at night I play with my radio, trying to tune in the dead. A nine-band Panasonic, ears on the world, AM, FM...
Gum packet poem
My arms flecked with brown stained with sun I masticate ...
Offshore
The gathering with placards is, give or take, the normal size. The speech is not unlike the last but tweaked for the...
Salvaged fragment from the recorded small morning hours rage of the vampire
of Silicon Valley 12
[ ]woe to tetravalent metalloids and over eager semiconductors! Beards of purest silicon,...
Geebung, near Braidwood
This is barefoot country even now, in early winter when the cool mountain air dampens the risk of a startled snake rising in...
The secret to trout
Sitting with empty creels on the bright side of the water we believe there are no fish. Billy Hoops lands beers from the...
