What the Spud? Eating Only Potatoes for a Week

By Amanda M. Gordon Back at the tail-end of February, I committed myself to an all potato-based diet. Why? Purely for journalistic purposes, with the intent on documenting a food tour on potatoes, and how quickly I would grow to despise the rooted vegetable. Drinks on the other hand are still fair game. Now french …

Surviving Where the Sun Don’t Shine

By Amanda M. Gordon What lives underground, reluctantly sleeps until noon and has the complexion of a vampire? That would be me, or at least that’s been the case for essentially the last five years (save for the seven month period of being under the Kuwaiti sun). The last three living spaces I’ve inhabited have …

To the End: Dead or Alive

By Amanda M. Gordon “What’s it like?” I ask her as I light my cigarette. The pale ghost eyes me with contempt from where she sits – on her very own headstone. Morgan Gates, who lived from September 18, 1983 to October 18, 2008, swears that she was killed just before midnight on the 17th …

Mouth Wide Shut: Six Weeks Without a Solid Meal

By Amanda M. Gordon Think of the last time you felt hungry. Truly hungry. Maybe you unintentionally skipped a meal and felt the cramps your stomach gives when you’ve gone too long without eating. Maybe it was intended for the sake of feeling thin, or because someone suggested that you shouldn’t eat that helping. Sadly, …