We’ve each selected our favorite media shitstorm of the summer. There were far too many qualified candidates. -BM I have a lot to learn about people. I accept that as […]
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Drinks 3
A rainy Saturday at Snark is the Night. Only a few people sit at the bar tonight; midterms are coming up and those with good judgment are studying in their […]
Drinks 2
It’s a tired Saturday evening at Snark is the Night, the number one bar in town for disaffected college students looking to prove how little they have to prove. The […]
Drinks
“Not these ****** again.” Jason leaned back as far as one could reasonably be expected to lean back in a barstool. In the end, he just looked like he was […]
This Week at MWT Regional HQ
Sam “Mute Monkey” LaGow lies awake in bed at around Four AM in his bedroom in Yorktown Heights, New York. Sitting at the foot of his bed are hallucinations of […]
108 People Like This
Everyone has a fucking opinion. Ideally, they are entitled to it. In reality, eight out of ten people don’t have a goddamn clue what it is they’re talking about either […]
Reddit: Wasteland of Mediocrity
In the scramble for recognition that has characterized the Internet age, we’ve left a few things like radio, CDs, and shame by the wayside. None of it is the exact […]
Mute Monkey Mission Statement 2013
About two weeks ago, I was on the verge of calling it quits and devoting my life to the sole pursuit of ruining everyone else’s. Either that, or killing myself […]
Genrefuck: Reconstruction
The term “Reconstruction” is a bit tricky to define at times. Whereas a deconstruction is when a trope or genre is brought into the harsh light of reality, a reconstruction […]
Genrefuck: Deconstruction
The goal of fiction is to create a more “perfect” version of reality. This has nothing to do with ideals, really. If the purpose behind writing was just to plug […]