Shane Crash lies before me in a hos­pi­tal bed, his nat­u­rally lithe frame slightly bloated from the steroid injec­tions he has been tak­ing for recently diag­nosed Crohn’s dis­ease.  Despite the intense pain of the inflam­ma­tion and the chem­i­cal stu­por of mor­phine, Shane is in good spir­its.  Just this morn­ing, I awoke to find his most […]

The city of Cairo sits at the dead end of Illi­nois and on the edge of obliv­ion. In this trav­el­ogue we visit a town that has fallen on hard times and falling apart, but not with­out a post-apocalyptic charm.