The Understanding Campaign: Who Cares?
"Fhm" for Halloween as drawn by Tai Turner
This post is about the ad you’ve been seeing here lately.
And okay, full disclosure for the blog cops:
Recently, Justin Sirois and I and a couple other bros from way back lit up the Baltimore streets with a big plastic owl that Justin had kept buckled into his backseat for years. The owl was called BSO, as in, “Back Seat Owl.” We took the BSO to play pool at Club Phoenix. We took him dancing and everyone hooted when he did a backspin. We even bought him beers at H.L. Mencken’s old hangout, the Owl Bar. Then we took him to play football in the street where, sadly, the BSO perished.
Which is meant to confess two things: one, Justin is my friend. Two, my man knows party fowl. READ MORE >
How To Explain It To My Parents
How To Explain It To My Parents is a video series featuring conceptual artists explaining their work to their parents.
Here’s an episode with Martijn Hendriks, who did that rad version of Hitchcock’s The Birds where all the birds were erased, and more.
Other episodes are available here. [via Clusterflock]
Live Giants 10: Amelia Gray
Thanks to everyone for watching, to Amelia Gray for reading, and to Mary Hamilton for handling the internet questions.
At any point you can pick up a copy of Amelia’s brand new Museum of the Weird here.
I Like What The Hell Is Going On Over Here And Send Me Some Stuff
Open letter from Kenneth Goldsmith on UbuWeb about UbuWeb and why the wrong way is the right way to run a file archive of unprofitable products.
Fall is because Spring is colder than winter.
Forgot to say something about Thirty days as a Cuban in Harper’s. In to it. If you’re not a subscriber, go to the library or steal it from your doctor’s office. If they ask you why you’re hanging around the lobby, tell them you’re just making sure they’re here for you.
Taking submissions for hahaclever, including and especially ebooks ~10,000 words (like the highlander, there can be only one, what I’m saying is please try to be the highlander). Rebuilding the website, new comics editor coming on board, maybe a text editor, might have a board to come on, shit like that going on. If you’ve sent something in the past and haven’t heard from me, we’re sorry. They will get back to you soon.
At Titular, we could use a Halloween piece because I like when people send holiday pieces like Christmas’s Cocoon by Amber Sparks.
The Cardini Brothers’ Catch-Up has a new website for to look at with your eyes and a new print issue for to buy with your fingertips. The print issue is slick. It’s all comics and poems done in fun and done in love with making and thinking on the future and being ready for it to be happening or to be made to happen. This is a thing they did to promote the last, first issue. READ MORE >
NEW STORES: The Paper Cave & Weightless Books
Courtesy of two of the best book producers I know: Zach Dodson (of featherproof books) and Caroline Picard (of Green Lantern Gallery & Press): a new independent online book store, and rumored brick&mortar location in Chicago. All sorts of local favorites are among the first titles presented. This has me really excited; nice to see another outlet for great books gathered, as well as a built in support system for readings and other art.
And next: Weightless Books, an ebook store. Again: lots of great presses, all sorts of prices and formats (all DRM free). Fill up those chips. Say goodbye to money.
Absent
There’s a new issue of Absent. They’ve done 5 issues since 2006, which isn’t a brisk pace, but I’m glad they’re still plugging away. One of the most radical things a journal or press can do is exist (even if they are Cannot Exist), so good job everyone who’s still at it.
What are some of the things you’ve published in defunct places? How did that make you feel?
The PANK Queer Issue
I am loathe to promote a project I am directly involved in BUT this is a special issue that I hope you’re going to want to read. Guest editor Tim Jones-Yelvington has assembled a really interesting collection of queer writing that is really interesting and challenging and I hope you all can take a minute or two to check it out. In his introduction, Tim writes, “Queer picks at “normal” like a scab, then eats it. Queer negates labels or else queer embraces many labels. Queer asks what the fuck is a label anyway.” I think that speaks quite well to the writing you will find.
The PANK Queer Issue includes work from: Crystal Boson, Mike Buffalo, Doug Paul Case, Elaine Castillo, Abhishek Chaudhary, Dennis Cooper, Sarah Einstein, Ben Engel, Holly Jensen, Adam Jest, Tim Jones-Yelvington, M. Kitchell, Rickey Laurentiis, Paul Lomax, Dennis Mahagin, Robert McDonald, Christopher Phelps, Sofia Rhei transl. by Lawrence Schimel, Maureen Seaton, Kevin Simmonds, Rachel Swirsky, Simon Sylvester, Andrew Tibbetts, Julie Marie Wade, Robert Warwick, Robert Alan Wendeborn, and B.G. Will.
Feel free to let us know what you think.
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October 14th, 2010 / 8:56 pm
October 14th, 2010 / 8:56 pm
Mike Young—
Hey, Bradley Sands is declaring war on Betty White to promote his new book of stories My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!. Maybe the only indie lit sales gimmick I’ve seen involving theoretical senior citizen violence? Check it out.
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Pynchon Kubrick Mashup
Weird ass overlaps between Pynchon and Kubrick: V. follows the exploits of discharged sailor Benny Profane and his “Whole Sick Crew” of pseudo-bohemian artists, similar to A Clockwork Orange‘s directionless misanthropy. In both Eyes Wide Shut and The Crying Lot of 49, a secret underworld is unwittingly uncovered, where nightmares, daydreams, and dreams lose their footing. Dr. Strangelove and Gravity Rainbow‘s dystopian protagonists are both missile-dick happy in these re-imaginings of war. Barry Lyndon and Mason & Dixon, both historical period pieces, recount the travels and adventures of ye olde English whacks, a la Merchant Ivory on acid. Thank god for pot, and hot pockets. Get high, netflix, and have fun this weekend.