kitchen sink 2 – winter 2003
the regret issue
Cover Illustration by Michael James Chessey, dedicated to his son Michael Xavier Chessey
Editor’s Note
Contributor’s Page/Letters to the Editor
louder than words
Familiar Song a guest editorial by Kate Mercier
Divided Song by Joshua Clover
Night Train: A Yo-Yo Soap Rock Opera by Paul Miller
Fem Zep: A Feminist Love Affair by Kate Schatz
Destroyer Mountain Goats: The John/Daniel Question by Jeff Johnson
Chuck Klosterman’s Living on Rock by Melissa Maristuen
You Spin Me: Sympathy for Music Magazines by Paper Tiger
stories with pictures
No Goodbyes by Laurenn Mccubbin
reverse angle
War On Film by Ame Johnson
Elimidate: Asshole Lessons by Virginia Pelley
Magnificent Obsessions: The Return of 1950’s Melodrama by David Fear
Breaking Through: Making It As a Superhero by Monique Montibon
Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman Adapt by David Fear
Watch Now, Talk Later by Natalie Lyon
Elevator a comic by benjones
paper city
The Rhetorical Cash Phrase: There’s a Lot of Irony Going On Here by Rachel Swan
Rejection Letters: An Ode by Kaya Oakes
Traps fiction by Michael Larkin
Times I’ve Been Creepy a comic by Geoff Vasile
Sad Tales of Vampiro: Matzo Ball Soup and Petaluma fiction by Brett Simon
Letter To the Midwest a poem by Anthony Robinson
Maps a poem by Stephanie Bobo
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Bay Area Next: Art After the Bust by Alison Bing
Sue Costabile’s Sounds and Visions by Mosi Reeves
Harrell Fletcher: Towards a Tender Society by Antonia Blue
How To Get Along… a comic by Jesse Reklaw
Looking for Mr. Richter by Lily Prillinger
How Insensitive a comic by Peter Conrad
Catching Up With Denis Kitchen by Austin English
Photographs: Maizie Gilbert
r:evolution
Tuned-ln: A Soldier’s Story In Kosovo by Jonathan Evans
Corporate Responsibility by Frank Marquardt
Dear Coca-Cola by Jen Anderson
The Beetle That Devoured the Kenai Peninsula by Paige R. Penland
What’s ln Your FBI File? Find Out What the Feds Have On You by Stephanie Groll
sexfood&god
Big “O” a comic by Shannon Wheeler
Diarv of a Would-Be Internet Dater by Melissa Maristuen
Is Staying Together the New Breaking Up? by Molly Thomas
Dirty Words by Diana Cage
Food Redux: Loving Leftovers by Marina Chotzinoff
Going ln: Prick Your Meat by Sierra Filucci
Staying 0ut: Street Food El Ojo de Aqua by Sierra Filucci
This Is Just God by Colette Dedonato
Disposable Outcome #2: How I Met Your Mom by Zack Kushner