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Better Late Than Never: Getting Postal wrt The LA Art Book Fair

Thursday, February 14, 2013

(Dusty post warning.) Last week the effluvian co-editors took a trip downtown to The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA for Printed Matter’s: The LA Art Book Fair… Much time was spent perusing the zine room, fingering little bunches of paper and spending little bunches of cash. Good conversations were had at many of the zine tables, [...]

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Zine of the Day (Throwback / Dustbin of History)

Friday, November 16, 2012

Absolute Berkeley! Relive Filth, Econochrist, Spitboy et al with back issues of Eggplant’s inkjet gem… if you were in close proximity to 924 in the 80s up until the early 90s then these pages were as omnipresent as Aaron’s (who graced the pages of A.Z. under the moniker Skrub) hand-penned zine. Don’t turn your nose [...]

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(Throwback/Simulation) Video of the Day: old (then young) ex? (then not!) punks DOING the talkshow circuit

Thursday, November 15, 2012

(believe it or not, I knew quite a few folks that got a free plane ticket and gratis hotel accommodations for the traveling party back in the decade that did us all in…) Born Against The Locust (mixed martial arts action straight from a decade ago…) And much much more… Google is your friend… anytime, [...]

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PROJECT FANTASY – Is it Easier to Break a Heart or Destroy a Mind: this is what “democracy” looks like?

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Proverbs for Paranoids… Once they are inside your head, you will NEVER get them out. 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. A person, once a close friend, then an employer, then simply a participant in the dance… physical comedy of the blunt, crude and basic variety… [...]

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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace + etc.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

“I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.” – A beautifully recursive DFW, looping at his most lovably convoluted (When we read him we got lost in those convolutions, spread them out and wrapped ourselves up inside of them, we convolved ourselves, kernel-like, across their soft surfaces. [...]

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