Annihilation Time, You’re Next

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Annihilation Time’s newest is real rewarding nerd feed: chum from Oxhard nardcore (impressive hand-drawn cover for Tales of the Ancient Age is Mystic down to the tits, cops and dogshit) and music from the same energetically trogged misinterpretations of older-sibling-record-collection fundamentals like Thin Lizzy (twinned guitar leads at double [...]

Tues | Feb 12 Nothing’s changed.
Wed | Feb 13 Pitching great Roger Clemens testifies before a Congressional committee that he never used steroids or the human growth hormone. Brian McNamee testifies before the same panel—but what does McNamee know? He was just Clemens’ trainer. Clemens and McNamee’s diametrically opposed stories means someone was lying to [...]

What’s it like to grow up gay?
From the Los Angeles Times, February 15: Ventura County prosecutors charged a 14-year-old boy with the shooting death of a classmate Thursday and said the killing in an Oxnard classroom was a premeditated hate.
The District’s Melissa Conser talks with two gay men, Matt (20) and Steve (21), about their [...]