1. The average age of the 1,300 audience members is 57. The average color is white. You sit among 1,300 middle-aged white women who are excited to return to the youth of the music of ABBA in staged dramatic form. 2. You see a few haggard men accompanying said women, but they would have preferred to stay at the Holiday Inn Courtyard bar or The Cheesecake Factory drinking $3 happy hour Long Island Iced Tea specials and dropping coconut shrimp into their gullets. Instead, they are here with their wives – so dutiful; these are the marriages that last. They -…
Author: Jennifer Fliss
Jennifer Fliss
Jennifer Fliss is a Seattle-based fiction and essay writer. Her work has appeared in PANK, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter at @writesforlife or via her website, www.jenniferflisscreative.com.
We are so sorry about the mix-up with this year’s Fyre Festival. In lieu of giving your money back – because we already spent that shit on gold bottles of Ace of Spades and lobsters – we want to offer you tickets to next year’s Fyre Festival! It’s going to be lit. Like literally lit – on fy-ah! But we’ve learned our lesson and we want to take precautions, so we’re providing you with this packing list for #FyreFestival2018. Are you down for the adventure? Life Straw: One of those fat straw things that takes vodka and turns it into potable…