Punk Planet: The Revenge of Print 2

The new issue of Punk Planet magazine is out now, reminding me that, yeah, I guess I did subscribe to their email newsletter, once. I’m glad I did that, because I was interested in the new issue, which promises to deliver some juicy details about the current state of “underground” print. Good old fashioned zines [...]

The Gold Teeth of Death

Last night I played the game of Exquisite Corpse with a friend. These are the results.
ITS NOT ADMIRE IT, ADORE
RHYTHM

Does not expire
and though it does keep to itself
it will always be unseen

AS THE UNSEEN 14 POINTS OF
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USA Voice Plagiarizes CNN!

USA Voice, a fledgling online news service, copied its front page news from CNN.com today.
See for yourself. Here is the lede and a few paragraphs from CNN’s recent article entitled, Three face terror charges after 1,000 cell phones seized
(CNN) — Three men authorities said were found with about 1,000 untraceable cell phones were arraigned [...]

Gun

“Hey baby,” she said, “put your gun away. I’m so sick and tired of “sick and tired”. I’m so frustrated with your questions. When you say “family” I guess you mean us. But, if family, then there’d be no war between us. And what peace, if you keep aiming that thing at me?”
“Hey baby, put [...]

The Moleskine problem

John, at Joshuaink has a problem with his crisp, new Moleskine notebook. It is too nice to mark on! I’ve experreienced a similar problem with mine. I think the best way to get over it is to do something awful on the last page, and get it over with. That way, everything else will feel [...]

Dreaming of Babylon

I’m one chapter into reading Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan, and I like what I have read so far. Here’s a description from Amazon:
Dreaming of Babylon is a hilarious and delightful spoof of a hard-boiled detective novel. Brautigan’s anti-hero, C. Card, is a poor, not-too-intelligent private eye working in San Francisco in 1942. Early [...]