THE HIGH HAT | DETRITUS



	Issue Ten … Issue Nine … Different Destinies An Interview with Alex Ross BY Steve Hicken The Bat of Damocles A Horrifying Look at the Red Sox’s Other Curse BY Nate Patrin Eat the World The Age of Culinary Post-Modernism BY Leonard Pierce Issue Eight … A Home in the Uncanny Valley The Unreal Geography of Video Games BY Nate Patrin Issue Seven … no articles this issue in Detritus Issue Six … Career Opportunities The Future of the Bush Administration BY PHIL NUGENT Intelligent Design? Threatened by Darwinism in the World of Computer Games BY TIM MILLER The Abomination of the Pink Baseball Cap Modern Culture Through A Major League Lens BY VEEJANE ACHESON He Who Laughs Last The waking dreams and political nightmares of Killer7 BY NATE PATRIN Issue Five … 21st Century Soul Art and technology in the digital age BY TIM MILLER Joystick Envy Being a gamer girl BY JESSICA LANGER Dude (Looks Like A Lady) Another High Hat interactive crossword puzzle BY JOE BOUCHER Issue Four … The Ties that Bind American marriage in crisis By Greg T. Hough Fresh off the Boat The first-ever High Hat Interactive Crossword By Joe Boucher Less a Job Than an Adventure: Confessions of a Telemarketer Chances are pretty slim that anyone you know has been killed in a terrorist attack, but you and everyone you know has been interrupted, inconvenienced, and even downright harassed by telemarketers. Telemarketers like me. By Milton Fazoo Issue Three … Confessions of a Househusband Hi, my name is Chris, and I am a househusband and stay-at-home dad. By Chris Roberson The Men You Hate to Love There’s a thin line, they say, between genius and madness. There’s also a thin line between being a talented and idiosyncratic creative artist and being a complete asshole. By Leonard Pierce Chicken Shit Bingo You blink for a couple seconds as the door at the end of the bar opens, and the blast of concrete-and-tar-flavored Texas sun tunnels in. You squint at the man dressed in black leather vest, guitar and amp in hand, silhouetted against the fire exit. How can a man dress like that in this heat and stay cool? He can if he is Dale Watson. By R. Dutcher Stiles Issue Two … The Probabilistic Soap Opera or The Consolations of Fantasy Baseball “In many ways, it is not unlike picking stocks. We allocate resources, we study the available commodities. Risk, reward and probability. Buy low and sell high.” by John James Serious Hillbilly Shit “These guys are the real deal: guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo. They play and sing, completely un-amplified, just standing out in the yard. I have attended this party for several years because the music is special, but for Thomas and Sean Clinton and their circle, it is an occasion to get more than usually drunk and high.” by Davis David Issue One … Stony Expressions: Facing Facts about Monumental Faces “In the middle '60s, when I first apprehended the M&O Man, he was the ideal symbol of difference for Livingston. He wasn't the conformist culture or the freak-out culture. He was our saucy cigar sign from another realm. The realm of the stone faces.” by Milo Miles A Little Not-Music: Adventures in the String Trade “I didn't care much for orchestral music, having played far too much of it back in high school. But where better to meet amateur musicians than in an amateur orchestra?” by Wolfgang Von Verkleidung My Days of Engine Whine and Strawberries “The strawberry harvest lasts six to eight weeks, and during that time he sets up several roadside stands for selling berries. I let Mike know that I would be interested in working for him on weekends at one of the Raleigh spots.” by John James