THOR HEYERDAHL BURNED THE TIGRIS OUTSIDE THE DJIBOUTI HARBOR AS A PROTEST AGAINST ARMS SALES FROM THE SUPERPOWERS OF THE WORLD TO SMALL COUNTRIES IN AFRICA. PG 212/213 FROM THOR HEYERDAHL: VOYAGES OF THE SUN, PUB- LISHED BY ATELIER ÉDITIONS. COURTESY OF THE KON TIKI MUSEUM. 2
was Uzbek. Landlocked—defected after Andijan—south until open ocean stripped his life back. I had never felt like I was wasting my time before. Rain came weeks ago alongside heaviness that gave me headaches, and guilt over not having felt fear. Saying goodbye to my home was the first time I questioned what was to be my station, even as it was dis- solving. Through life I found it really easy to return to a median of feeling. Where I was not dead or resisting things either. It was still pretty normal for family to encourage it with a girl and we would go along until a marriage, that was secondary for men to the career. Now I look around. My other friend here, we had been on track, politics and human sci- ences, young delegates in Western Europe. It was our world. His father was at Fincantieri. He got us onto this. Twink provided excite- ment compensating since the news that his dad was found face up. Regardless I’m hedg- ing my words now. His humor has passed. I won’t know what comes next. —Come on now. We were army; it has been a cultur- al narrative in online tabloids lately that BTS joined their country’s draft. It wasn’t worth reading about. Wireless connec- tions were a lot worse and we didn’t look much up, we didn’t need to, and plus, administration got priority on network relays. It was hard to detach from addict- ing short-form content, or periodicals, like this one. The disconnect in the cul- ture industry was a little thinner. More impulse-driven consumers usually had to move on. We just felt out. For some people celebrity worship was becoming more like private fetishes. One more leg passes, all of our phones are useless now. —Up in single file. —Go to that deck you see, now. I maintain to the crew that my dad is a dignitary.We keep moving west pursuing a story where our standards won’t decline in escape from what’s coming. I care about myself. I’ll shield my words from a fading online sphere.
— Kees Wilcox
3 If you want to witness real preparedness for the storm, get thee to LA’s new “Vinyl District” and bear witness to the fashions on flex—these took weeks, months to conjure, and they’re scary AF… but where are the Twinks? Twink, or historically “Twank” in 1920’s terms used to describe male prostitutes. In an article, The New York Times declared, “Welcome to The Age of The Twink.” Presenting a new meaning to the historical slang term. 2 New title Thor Heyerdahl:Voyages of the Sun (Atelier editions) explores the life and expeditions of Heyerdahl, author of The Kon- Tiki Expedition .This year celebrated the 75th anniversary of Hey- erdahl’s 1947 voyage on a balsa-wood raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Polynesia. The new title gives readers a glimpse into the explorer’s adventures and his radical thinking.
Of course it was clean. This wasn’t being herded. We came above a waterline where it had been a slow exit, personal, not an evacuation from the country. On the other side it would not be much to create a story that ferried one sense of home to my next. It wasn’t our choice but still it was not refuge. I look at Twink 3 , who was the son of a real pirate. His dad
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