By Alice McIntyre The 2019 role-playing game “Disco Elysium,” developed and published by ZA/UM, is phenomenal. This column has been, and will continue to be, essentially a place for me to gush about media I like and think CPJ readers ought to check out. On this occasion, though, I really […]
Guilty Pleasures
By Brooke Lynch Recently, I have been horrified to find that I have an affinity for 80s hard rock and metal. Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses and other bands whom I’ve had absolutely no love for have been popping up in my playlists and recent listens, and I […]
An Interview with Moonshine Quinn
By Avery Quinn Moonshine Quinn is a twenty-three year old artist currently residing in Olympia on Coast Salish, Cowlitz, Nisqually, and Squaxin land. Moon is an incredible human, who in addition to being my sibling has also saved my life more than a hundred times over simply by existing. Their […]
Hyperpop Transness
By Brooke Lynch I don’t think I was ready for how catchy “800 db cloud” by 100 gecs was gonna be. As an 18-year-old, I was all about the distorted guitars and supposed rawness of punk and grunge, so an experimental electronic album was of no interest to me. But […]
Poetry by lee 이 therese
Love Letter to the Little Mixed Kid by lee 이 therese Whenever you are ready if you are ever ready just know I will embrace you welcome you with both hands arms spread wide to catch your starlight you multifaceted wonder you with your eclectic soul you can be a […]
Spoiler Warning: Bullshit Jobs, Clerks, and Capitalist Realism
By Alice McIntyre Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” (1994) is one of my comfort movies, for sure. It chronicles the misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two minimum-wage retail clerks in New Jersey. After being called in to cover another employee’s morning shift, Dante has a series of encounters […]
Rot & Resilience & Storytelling: Alithea O’Dell
By Avery Quinn Alithea O’Dell, creator of Anchorless Prints, is a 36 year-old letterpress printer and printmaker and student graduating from Evergreen this spring. We had a socially-distanced, masked conversation in her open-air garage workspace, while her close friend Kim diligently worked in the background. What led you to Evergreen? […]
Spoiler Warning: It’s a Strange World – “Blue Velvet”
By Alice McIntyre Blue Velvet (1986) is the fourth feature film directed by David Lynch, and a new favorite of mine. It follows Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a college student returning to his hometown of Lumberton, NC in the wake of his father’s near-fatal stroke. During his visit, he finds […]
An Interview with Merrill Pusey
By Avery Quinn Merrill Pusey is Evergreen’s Multicultural Initiatives Coordinator and has been in that role for two years. Merrill is an incredible advocate for justice, bringing that passion to us through her work with students every day. She is also a painter of vibrant and evocative works ranging from […]
The Garbage of Earthly Delights
By Jack Stroud As for looking like you’re ‘bouta squeeze butterflies out of your solar plexus; lolloping cave-man like around a box TV framed in brightly painted polygons of cardboard; playing tug of war with your intestines when you’re an amorphous blob; twirling gracefully on an aerial swing amidst the […]