Over the years I’ve mentioned my friend Steve Hughes and his zine Stupor several times on this site. I’ve shared videos of him reading at the Shadow Art Fair, and interviewed him about his various projects in Hamtramck, where he makes his home and runs an art space called Public Pool. To my knowledge, though, […]
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The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor
Posted in Detroit, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Rohde, blood, Christianity, Clinton Snider, collaboration, DIY, Dorota Coy, eastern mich, EMU, Factsheet Five, Hamtramck, Hope College, Hygienic Dress League, interviews, Janet Kauffman, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Kickstarter, Kresge Foundation, Linette, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Michael Jackman, mud, New Orleans, oral history, poison, Public Pool, rust, seedy, self-publishing, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Steve Coy, Stupor, The Untold History of Zines, toilet, true stories, truth, truthiness, University of New Orleans, zines, Zug Island | 14 Comments
The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary… agendas at play, profits to be made
As you’ve no doubt heard, a gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday morning, taking the lives of 20 children (all 6 and 7 years old) and 6 adults. It’s a heartbreaking story, and I don’t know that there’s anything that I can say that hasn’t already been said better by our obviously […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Media, Observations, Other, Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Lanza, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Basketball Diaries, Charlie Booker, Chicago Sun Times, Columbine, Connecticut, David Huckabee, Diane Feinstein, Elephant, first-person shooter, God in school, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, gunman, guns, Gus Van Sant, Jay Carney, Macy's Thanksgiving parade, mass murder, mental illness, Michigan Open Carry, Mike Huckabee, More Guns Less Crime, murder, murdertainment, network news, news media, nightly news, NRA, Obama, prayer in school, Rick Snyder, Rob Harris, Roger Ebert, Ryan Lanza, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Senate Bill 59, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, the state of the world, Tom Brokaw, tragedy, violent video games | 46 Comments