Starlee Kine’s issue of THE THING was a bamboo cutting board designed only for cutting onions. Inscribed into the board’s surface was a piece of text about a lost love. The more you used the board, the less you were able to read the text and, as Starlee wrote, “the quieter the ghosts of meals past would become.” It also included a locker poster of a crying McNulty from "The Wire" TV series (illustrated by Arthur Jones), and a set of “Crying Instructions” written by Starlee.

This issue was created in Luke Bartels’ studio, Woodshop, in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Luke was key in planning out this issue from the logistical side of things all the way to the final cuts. THING editors Will and Jonn shaped, cut and oiled the boards along with him.