i just finished reading an adbusters and there are a few things i really liked and wanted to share. (if you don't know adbusters check out my culture jammers link)

My best friend died this summer.  I went to her funeral.  I watched as people framed her life in a pragraph, a picture and a song.  I leaned against a cold brick wall at the very back of the church and listened as strangers told me what I will miss the most.  I shook hands with her dad and saw the wet tears on his cheeks.  I searched for someone else who had tears to share with me.  People held onto small styrofoam plates of dessert and talked loudly about things that made them talk loudly.  I looked at her picture on the piece of paper I was given and remembered the sound of her laugh.  I went to her grave.  There was no tombstone yet but I saw the sunflowers on the fresh dirt, the shadow of pine trees on green grass. I wondered where she was.  I wondered how a person leaves everything they own and disappears.  I wondered how much a person might pay for one more conversation or where someone might be able to purchase another few seconds of eye contact.  I wondered why it was only now, standing beside a freshly dug grave that I missed her most.  That's when everything changed.  I found myself staring reality in the face.  I saw through the glitz and glamour, rush hour in the city, bright lights and neon sighs, chrome detailing and the white-blue glow of TV in the dark. I woke up to the faint scent of pine needles in the breeze and the feeling of sweet, sweet pain burning a hole in my heart.  All alone under the wide blue sky.  I realized that despite our success in building islands in the sky and castles in the sea, we are really only silly people convered in skin, making this up as we go. Dixon Wixie

I thought this was very well done. here are a couple other excerpts from the magazine.

When the Left deconstructed its utopias as "totalizing" and "unrealistic", it lost its way.  Deconstruction has destroyed our utopias.  It has destroyed the Left. We have lost our ability to dream.  -- Murat Ergin

The Left isn't dead.  Indeed, kids in my age group (twenties) are far more liberal than our parents.  The problem is apathy.  The looks on people's faces when I tell them to vote are incredulous.  It's hard to move this generation to care about anything, let alone a voting system which is viewed to be far removed and corrupt.  The problem isn't the country moving to the Right, which is a widely held misconception on the part of the Left, rather it is moving people to give a damn and make a difference.  --Andrew