A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and Virginia Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories,...
Amateur drone technology honestly scares the living bejesus out of me. Amateur drone technology honestly scares the living bejesus out of me. I know, it's a bit irrational, but if we've learned anything from Terminator 1, 2: Judgement Day, 3: Rise of the Machines, 4: Salvation, or (what I assume is the allegory in the yet-to-be-release) 2015's...
This is my final missed connections post. I’m not sad to leave you. Not doing this is honestly super exciting to me. This is my final missed connections post. I’m not sad to leave you. Not doing this is honestly super exciting to me. Picking through RVA’s dirty laundry has been the saddest part of my week since I informally took over this column....
Richmond's greatest sons and daughters, GWAR, have thrown their hate into the literary world, and while we're not expecting William Faulkner, we should probably expect William Fucked-your-mother. Richmond's greatest sons and daughters, GWAR, have thrown their hate into the literary world, and while we're not expecting William Faulkner, we should...
Nothing will make you lose help like missed connections. People here in this world want to fuck bus drivers, lick dirty feet clean, talk about hot tubs, hit on strangers and just general awfulness. It tires you out. I’m gonna go take a nap, here’s the best of missed connections. Ben Folds Show - The National - 5/2 - End of Concert Exchanged Looks...
Richmond has shown me many wonderful and spectacular ways to waste my time, but none quite as good as this one. Richmond has shown me many wonderful and spectacular ways to waste my time, but none quite as good as this one. Sunday, I attended the RVA date of the Air Sex Championship tour and I saw comedically named players pretend to fuck...
I remember when I was about to FINALLY escape High School. It felt like I had been there forever. I remember when I was about to FINALLY escape High School. It felt like I had been there forever. The excitement of not really knowing what's next, the hunger to own my identity and making the necessary mistakes to get there; the unsettling truth...
This week feels like deja vu all over again. We do this most weeks, and most of the time and the missed connections are similar because they all fall into the same couple tropes: i saw a hot guy, i saw a hot girl, there was a pretty employee who was nice to me because its their job, i love my ex, i hate my ex, ONE IN ALL CAPS, weird phrasing,...
This missed connections gig is a job hazard- today alone there were four whose pictures were just straight up porn. They also leave you wondering certain things like why would a 42-year-old man try to get with someone starting as a VCU freshman this year? How does one get ‘sort of’ hit by a train? What is the underground world of furries like?...
Believe it or not, RVA Mag was not the beginning. Much as we'd love to lay claim to having started it all, the history of independent press in Virginia goes back many years longer than the single decade we've been in operation--and Richmond-based author Dale Brumfield has chronicled a significant portion of that history in his new book,...
