“Identity” Featured Artist Shelly Lowenkopf
Synkroniciti is delighted to publish “Chekhov’s Croissant” by Californian writer and poet Shelly Lowenkopf, who debuted with us in our previous issue, “Haunting.” This comic gem explores the absurdity in …
“Curiosity” Featured Artist Lorraine Jeffery
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome poet Lorraine Jeffery. Her poem, “In the Personals,” is written in response to a classified ad in a Midwestern American newspaper wanting to trade a …
Featured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Our final Featured Artist is poet and photographer Jonathan Yungkans, who is beloved to our Synkroniciti community–our “Hidden” issue featured his shadowy self-portrait on the cover and he won the …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Our lives really do seem strange and mysterious when you look back on them. Filled with unbelievably bizarre coincidences and unpredictable, zigzagging developments. While they are unfolding, it’s hard …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd–The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the …
Stop Monkeying Around: Monty Python’s Gorilla Librarian Sketch
Here’s a comic sketch from Monty Python which needs no introduction. I hope you enjoy this little bit of absurdity from the kings of British surrealist humor starring the late, …
Quote for Today: Joseph Conrad
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream– making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, …
Kisses from the Wild Side: Three Escape Machines
A large, ominous black cube stands before you, with a red button gleaming on its face. What happens if you walk up to the cube and push that button? Watch …