Shamonica Magazine

A few weeks ago I was shooting a machine gun and swimming in the South China Sea (not at the same time, I’m not John Rambo). But today I am blogging and complaining about my dry cleaner. A lot has changed within a month’s time. How I got there It’s true; I was in Vietnam [...]

Author Tupelo Hassman’s debut novel, Girlchild, was released last week. As a friend and admirer of her many talents, I couldn’t wait to follow the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix, the precocious heroine of Girlchild, but also the story of Ms.Hassman, as her book is received by the world. In the book, we’re introduced to [...]

Whew! I just got back from an hour of Iyengar and I can’t feel my left arm! Just kidding. I feel fucking amazing. You know why? Because I seriously just took a Hatha flow class you guys, and my body loves me for it. To me, yoga feels better than a back massage. To practice [...]

News today of writer, ideologue and cultural commentator Christopher Hitchens dying of esophageal cancer at age 62 shouldn’t have been shocking nor all too troubling for his millions of critics around the world. The ’Hitch’ was quite open about his condition, and his refusal to give up the booze and cigarettes only added to his legendary contrarian way of life. The man [...]

  Way back in the mid to late-naughts we were all yukking it up with sites like Look at this fucking hipster (LATFH.com, now a fucking book!), hipster runoff, as well as this video about the British counterpart, the quaintly-dubbed “Dickhead” because, yeah, we were all so much better than all those idiots and their ironic, [...]

“Pancakes. A lot of pancakes,” answers the character Leslie, when grilled by her fiance’s jealous sister in the 1997 film adaptation of the play House of Yes. When I think of pot pies, I think of this scene. I did in fact eat a lot of pot pies, and fish sticks, and casseroles growing up. [...]