When I first started my “History of Zines” oral history project back in 2013, one of the first people I reached out to was Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind the incredibly ambitious clip art zine Crap Hound. [As someone with OCD, the obsessiveness of Crap Hound really resonated with me, and I wanted to find […]
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The Untold History of Zines… Sean Tejaratchi on Crap Hound
Ypsi Immigration Interview: Forest Juziuk
Back in 2011, I interviewed a young man by the name of Forest Juziuk about his planned relocation from Ann Arbor to San Francisco, California. As it turns out, it would be the first in a long series of exit interviews I’d conduct here, which, in turn, would spawn a second series of interviews with […]
The Zip Code Rapists to reunite this Thursday night in Brooklyn
I know there’s a very good chance this won’t matter to one single person who reads this site on a regular basis, but it’s just come to my attention, by way of WFMU’s Brian Turner, that, this Thursday night, John Singer and Gregg Turkington will be reuniting as the Zip Code Rapists at a club […]
I’m afraid to listen
For what it’s worth, I thought that he was just kidding when he noted the squishiness until I remembered that I’d had both kids out on a paddle boat this morning at Gallop Park… God only knows what he thought was going on with the sloshing and groaning, punctuated by the occasional hisses of swans. […]
Anton LaVey on enjoying the company of animatronic alcoholics
A few days ago, I had a post here about a bar in Orlando that I went to with my family that was full of animatronic dinosaurs. Well, I mentioned at the end of that particular piece that I was concerned that, based upon this experience, my daughter might get the impression that bars were […]