Killing It

Killing ItBy: Mike Bockoven Killing it on stage just got a lot more literal The Square has always been one of the most important clubs in New York for the alt comedy scene. But before the rise in popularity, it housed something much darker. Now, it is a place where evil lingers in the shadows, waiting for the chance to spill blood once more. When four unfortunate comics enter the green room after a less than successful night, the opportunity for bloodshed

some are drawn

brother of the King of England

Standing head and shoulders above his comrades

and compare

his sea-pieces ache with a calm

that we keep feeling a need to account for

and Skulls

he doesn’t have a civilized bone in his body

hailing them as the “moral equivalents” of America’s Founding Fathers

but he was always the help—and she was glamorous and popular

Levine recounts this tale of Southern institutional rot with the ease and authority born of decades of study

this newest edition of It’s Perfectly Normal provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies