Megawords has a simple purpose:

Megawords will be celebrating the release of our thirteenth issue with a party as part of the annual Art & Soul Food celebration in Brewerytown. We’re also putting together a street level installation inside an old news stand on the corner of 27th and Girard. Come check it out and grab a copy of the latest issue!

Saturday June 12
2 till 6pm
27th and Girard

Directions and more info here.

This issue of Megawords features work by Gary Fogelson, Rebekah Maysles, LeJosh, ourselves, and a very important essay entitled Teen Sex Energy / Land Money Power by Matt Schwartz.

If you can’t make it to the party, get your copy of the magazine here: www.megawordsmagazine.com

By Mattathias Schwartz

Now I wish to speak about the moment after we see that most everything is bullshit, during a period of life when we have the ability to communicate this perception and the certainty of our feeling to a community of peers, but before the moment when we accept that the bullshit is perpetual, that it represents some natural state of affairs, and that the sooner we get over our hatred of it, the faster we will advance. This second moment, the moment of acceptance, is known as “maturity.” It marks our entrance into adulthood, when we immerse ourselves so fully into the bullshit that we can longer see it for what it is.

There is a strong taboo against conjoining the words “teen” and “sex.” Recording, soliciting, or representing the concrete act represented by these two words in tandem are all crimes. We say that the taboo protects the teens and their innocence. But it also protects society-as-we-know-it from an amoral erotic-revolutionary force—Teen Sex Energy. If the young were allowed to release this youth-energy, in their own way, on their own terms, there would not be much left of the adult world. All the carefully kept accounts and traditions would burn to the ground in a single night. Read the rest of this entry »

“A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. “

A turned over van serves as a barracade in Kingston’s Tivoli Gardens neighborhood. Gunmen there are fighting to prevent the extradition of Christopher “Dudus” Coke, an infamous drug lord, to the US on weapons and drug trafficking charges.

Issue 13 is now available! Get a copy here: http://megawordsmagazine.com/shop/example-category/issue-thirteen/

This issue of Megawords features work by Gary Fogelson, Rebekah Maysles, LeJosh, ourselves, and a very important essay entitled Teen Sex Energy by Matt Schwartz.

Fishtown section, Philadelphia 2004

Considered “the best film on cycling ever” come see A SUNDAY IN HELL this Wednesday the 26th and then Bike shorts programmed by Brendt Barbur (director of the Bicycle Film Festival) Thursday the 27th @ Maysles Cinema.

There will be snacks, a reception on Thursday, tight bike shorts, bike valet (!), water bottles, helmets, unicycles and more!  In celebration of all things cycling!!!