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Impressing prospective employers everywhere

Do a Google search of my name: Nate Martin. That’s the title of a term paper? Be glad it’s not your name.

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Expatriates

My friend Christian invited me to sail with him from New Zealand to Fiji next winter. By the time his boat is ready, his girlfriend will have joined him in the South Pacific, having saved enough money from working in … Continue reading

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Blinking blue lights

This article will appear in the upcoming Skeleton News. Before I left to live in Buenos Aires I visited Chicago to meet with a cousin of a friend to discuss the prospect of obtaining employment at a school the cousin … Continue reading

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Podcast, part deux

Here is the second installment of the UtahFM.org podcast I produced, and as I have moved out of Salt Lake City for good, it will be my last. It is much more hilarious than the first. Stay tuned.

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The complete and utter history of Vile Blue Shades

This article originally appeared in SLUG magazine. If it’s a sample of John Thursday she’s after, his head is already up. I lay her skirt up to her belly and slip her pants down … — Henry Miller, in Under … Continue reading

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Podcast!

When Salt Lake City’s cool independent radio station decided to get not so cool and fire all its volunteer DJs in an attempt to streamline its programming, all the cool volunteer DJs went and started their own online radio station … Continue reading

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Found text from years ago

Intermittent gardeners dance at fronds and bridesmaids. Out of humming comes boy-fault and head colds come from pills. If you take apart my eyes you can never sneak, pearling, from humps. Turnkeys watch locusts in low-cut denim eat, feel, and … Continue reading

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The War of the End of the World

This review originally appeared on Stop Smiling Online. The War of the End of the World By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane (Picador) Reviewed by Nate Martin “What the reference to democracy involves is … Continue reading

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Maniqui Lazer Learns Everything on TV

This CD review originally appeared in SLUG Magazine. Maniqui Lazer I Learn Everything on TV Soundsister ML = Chinese Stars + Agape + XBXRX The modern sound of punk that has been festering for years in San Diego inside the … Continue reading

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Goreteños

GORE-TEÑOS* INVADE CHICAGO!!!!!!! Buenos Aires artists DIENTE, PIRAÑA, and AUGUSTIN CROXATTO, alongside Chicago artists ROLLIN HUNT and PUTRID present an exhibit of frighteningly fantastic multicontinental strangeness. *people from Buenos Aires are called “porteños” A PEOPLE PROJECTS SHOW 2129 N. Milwaukee … Continue reading

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