THRU Magazine Archive
There is not so fine a line between homelessness and vacationing. For one very broad line, the person lacking permanent housing must be absolutely lacking it. In other words, saving up a couple thousand dollars to backpack across Europe is essentially the American middle class birthright to which we tout ourselves as being so resourceful […]
A serious look at a bogus viral email. Most of us have received that email (perhaps from family) with oversized letters and big exclamation points in the headers — or improper punctuation in general — that goes about describing the end of the good days in America, such as when Eisenhower ran things. Specifically, there […]
During the summer of 2003, I was working retail at The Salvation Army full-time, in The Valley, Los Angeles area–more specifically Sun Valley–at 8232 Sunland Blvd where today there appears to be a busted out smoke shop. I had just recently graduated Sound Master Audio/Video Institute in North Hollywood, where today a high-rise apartment building […]
I go to the gym. Why I go, let me qualify that. I go to the gym to relax, because I’m always stoned. I need something to counteract it. If you’re a smoker, you have to be careful because getting the blood moving elevates your high. If you had just one bong rip one hour […]
I visited the Internet today. I went… online. Such is a word that seems to be losing meaning. There never is a time that we are offline. At home, your desktop is tethered to your router constantly and offline really means inactive-periods-online. I don’t mean to be all Big Brother on you, but your so-called […]