In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]
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The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp
Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects | Also tagged 1990, Agatha Cristie, Atomic Books, aviation, Bertolt Brecht, Big Geology Cabaret, Big Squirrel Lick National Park, Birthplace of Aviation, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Writers Center, Cincinnati, collaboration, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Dada, David Mamet, Dayton, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Elliot Bay Books, Etch-A-Sketch, Eugene Baskerville, experimental theater, Factsheet Five, fake tourist attractions, famous people who published zines, Farm Hussy, Farm Pulp, fluxus, folding paper, fonts, found objects, Gang of Four, Golden Girls, graphic design, Greg Hischak, Gregory Hischak, Humana Festival, insecurity, James Thurber, John Cage, Left Bank Books, Lewis Carroll, Mad magazine, Max Ernst, Michael J. Rosen, Mirth of a Nation, National Geographic, Ohio, playwrights, Portland Stage Company, Powell's, publishing, pulp, punk, Reading Frenzy, red dresses, Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, Seattle, Seattle Fringe Festival, See Hear, sexless, sibling rivalry, slam poets, small press, stamps, surrealism, The New Yorker, The Untold History of Zines, theater, This American Life, Thomas S. Hischak, toasters, underground press, Woody Allen, wooing girls, Wright Brothers, Xena, Yarmouth, Yoko Ono, young thugs, zines | 18 Comments
Gay abortion football
CBS, the network airing the Super Bowl this weekend, recently announced that they would not be airing an ad for a Toronto company catering to straight-identifying men who might be in the market for their first homosexual experience during the Sunday broadcast. The network said that it wasn’t anything personal, but that they weren’t accepting […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 1987, a gay episode, abortion, amoebic dysentery, CBS, companies in Toronto that provide services to straight-identifying gay men, encouraging Christian missionaries to have abortions, fetal deformity, first homosexual experiences, Focus on the Family, football, gay sex, gay sex for straight people, Gloria Allred, Heisman Trophy, issue advertising, ManCrunch.com, missionaries, Pam Tebow, Philippines, STOP you could be aborting a future Heisman Trophy-winner, Super Bowl, Tim Tebow, University of Florida | 65 Comments