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What’s your Longshot Magazine story?
We’ve been hard at work for the last 21 hours and we know that you have been, too. What keeps us going is hearing all the unexpected stuff you’re doing out there in the real world.
Laura Yudich told us, “I photographed the very Studer A827 24 Track Recorder that Nirvana recorded “In Utero” with during my @longshotmag investigation…whoa.” (How awesome is that?)
@DDysart tweeted about heading to an absinthe distillery (we’re jealous). Jack Miller, up in Portland, has been out interviewing people on the street, and is now finishing up on three hours of sleep.
Hearing this stuff reminds us: Longshot is an event that is also a magazine. You’re making both of them right along with us.
Post your stories from the field here. (If we get some good ones, we’ll stick a few in the magazine.)
The Great Longshot Treasure Hunt
Longshot Magazine has hidden $750 somewhere in the city of San Francisco. Over the course of the afternoon, we’re going to gradually reveal clues that lead to its location. It’s yours if you can find it.
Clue Number One: Look among the smelly invaders and colorful edibles.
Clue Number Two: Beginning Advanced Spanish
Got an idea where the treasure may be? Post it below. (That is, if you don’t mind giving it away.)
Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Blueprint for a Post-Literate Future
In which I confront my favorite author outside of Colson Whitehead… In which I confront my love for technology… In which a dachshund makes an appearance. The best thing I’ve written in… Ok, ever.
First all-female transcontinental road trip via Bancroft Library
"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms."
Dan Maes, Republican gubernatorial candidate for Colorado, warning that efforts by Denver’s mayor to promote biking and other green initiatives will move the city a step closer to UN control. (via officialssay)
"I’m still learning how to write. I don’t know what technique is. All I know is that you have to make the reader see it."
James Baldwin, The Paris Review, Spring 1984
(On this day, in 1924, James Baldwin was born.)
(via theparisreview)
ALEXIS MADRIGAL
emptyage asked: Are you as good-looking online as you are in person?
I’m not very Internetogenic.
