Terry Southern’s
The Blood Of A Wig

<small>Terry Southern’s</small><br />The Blood Of A Wig

At about six in the morning I really started cooking on the alleged “Manchester passages”. . . “. . . wan, and wholly bereft, she steals away from the others, moving trancelike towards the darkened rear-compartment where the casket rests. . . She gasps, and is literally slammed... »

“Now Dig This”
The
Terry Southern
Interview

</strong>“Now Dig This” </strong><br /><small><b><center>The<br />Terry Southern<br />Interview</center></b></small>

John Calley, who was a very hip Producer at MGM - was sure it was time to do Blue Movie." He was convinced that the first studio to come out with a quality full length film showing erection and penetration, using stars, would go over the top. "It'll be like Gone With The Wind,"... »

“Uneasy Rider”
an excerpt from the award winning memoir
Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember
by Gail Gerber
with Tom Lisanti

<strong>“Uneasy Rider” </strong><br /><small><small>an excerpt from the award winning memoir </small></small><br />Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember <br /><small><small>by Gail Gerber <br />with Tom Lisanti</small></small>

Even though Terry created most of the dialogue for the movie, Peter and Dennis wanted a co-writing credit. They called him after watching a few screenings in LA. Though he felt it was an unfair demand, Terry got on the phone to the Writers Guild anyway, secure in his position as creator... »

THE BEATS: REMEMBERING THE TEA
an excerpt from Ellen Pearlman’s
NOTHING & EVERYTHING

<font size=4><b>THE BEATS: REMEMBERING THE TEA</b></font><br /><font size=3>an excerpt from Ellen Pearlman’s</font><br /><font size=5><b>NOTHING & EVERYTHING</b></font>

Nothing and Everything is about the relationship of Eastern thought, particularly Buddhism, to the arts in post-war New York City —from the early 1940s to the early1960s—a handful of individuals brought about major changes in music, performance, dance, theater, installation, video, mixed media, painting, and sculpture, as the evolution from modernism to postmodernism broke down... »

FUG YOU

FUG YOU

Ed Sanders is some sort of parody of all the MC’s of history. He looks like James Jones, or a foul Bob Hope. Neither he nor his “slum goddess of the lower east side” is aphrodisiac, but they are wildly funny because he and his songs have trapped the infantilism of smutty little boys.... »

Michael Disend’s
RIDER OF THE JADE HORSE
featuring Penman, master hypnotist to the stars

<center><font size=2>Michael Disend’s</font><br /><b><font size=4>RIDER OF THE JADE HORSE</font> </b><br /><font size=2>featuring Penman,  master hypnotist to the stars</font>

Li looked firmly into his eyes. “No! I want man who is also a woman.” Penman nodded against his will, his gaze stealing down toward the strap-on dildo she was generously coating with lube. It thrust out like a red cannon from her leather harness. Why red? Is it because she’s from China? Penman... »

Mike Golden’s
“THERE ARE NO RULES,
SCUMBAG MAKES THE RULES!”

fiction
excerpted from the novel

VIRTUALLY REALITY
(on the coast of Nebraska)

<font size=2>Mike Golden’s</font><br /><b><font size=5>“THERE ARE NO RULES,<br />SCUMBAG MAKES THE RULES!”</font><br /><font size=2>fiction<br />excerpted from the novel</b></font><br /><font size=3>VIRTUALLY REALITY<br />(on the coast of Nebraska)</b></font>

At the end of the day, hombres, it ees all about ideas anyway, isn't it? I mean, it ees the transmission of ideas. Even the bad ones, the lies, the progaganda in the name of one bogus god or another. . .in order to sell the program and advance the cause, whatever it... »

Joey Amdahl’s
The Big Dumb Nothing
fiction from MODERN (you call this) LIVING

<font size=3>Joey Amdahl’s</font><br /><b><font size=6>The Big Dumb Nothing</font><br /><font size=3>fiction from MODERN (you call this) LIVING</b></font>

I see my thirty-five-year-old boss Betty Allen standing at the door of the club. She scratches at an itch that’s under her tight black skirt and her hand yanks up her fish net stocking at the knee. . A tattoo of a zombie geisha fills up her entire upper arm. The tattoo goes against... »

FAMOUS LONG AGO REDUX:
Raymond Mungo’s
SILK ROAD MAHABHARATA #7

<center><font size=4><b>FAMOUS LONG AGO REDUX:</b></font><br /><font size=3><b>Raymond Mungo’s</font></b><br /><font size=4><b>SILK ROAD MAHABHARATA #7</b></font>

The concept of traveling at Christmas – not to visit family or friends, indeed to escape them and the awful jingle bell season entirely – came to us in an Arctic inspiration about 20 years earlier and, having once tasted the delicious elixir of Yuletide liberation, we have enjoyed it nearly every year since.... »

Dick Lit
Missionary Positions
fiction by Joe Maynard

Painting by Peter Cross

<center>Dick Lit <br /> <font size=3>Missionary Positions <br /><b>fiction by Joe Maynard</b></font><br /><font size=2>Painting by Peter Cross</font>

  “dick lit” is here to acknowledge the good, bad and ugly that goes with it, a… Read the rest »

TALES FROM THE OLD STASH
Jack Wesley Hardin’s
MEXICAN SWEAT
(a smuggler’s memoir) #7

TALES FROM THE OLD STASH<br />Jack Wesley Hardin’s<br />MEXICAN SWEAT</center><center><small>(a smuggler’s memoir) #7</small></center>

Cover the hole with a sturdy wooden top, bury with several feet of dirt, scatter hay, let horses piss on all, voila! – Stash House! Even at 120 degrees to 180 on the surface, in the hole it will be a cool 60 – 70 degrees. Cool pot, happy pot. This is why a... »

an excerpt from Alan Greenberg’s
EVERY NIGHT THE TREES DISAPPEAR
Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass”

<b><center><font size=4>an excerpt from Alan Greenberg’s </font><br /><font size=5>EVERY NIGHT THE TREES DISAPPEAR</font><br /><font size=3>Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass”</font></center></b>

Every Night the Trees Disappear is an intimate chronicle of the visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog directing a masterwork in which his actors were hypnotized throughout. This chronicle is interwoven with Herzog’s original screenplay to create a unique vision of its own, the married texts playing off each other hypnotically. »

Barney Rosset Interview
(The Subject Was Left Handed)

<center>Barney Rosset Interview <br />(The Subject Was Left Handed)</center>

By the time he was in the 8th grade Barney Rosset was permanently radicalized, a romantic and pri… Read the rest »

Maureen Owen’s
ON A POEM ABOUT ELVIS PRESLEY
but for Ted Berrigan who understands momentum

<center><font size=3><b>Maureen Owen’s</b></font><br />ON A POEM ABOUT ELVIS PRESLEY<br /><font size=4>but for Ted Berrigan who understands momentum</font>

    I thought she said                “There’s a bullet hole in my skull the size of Detroit”                     He got older but what he really lost was the energy of life          he had this energy      then he lost it because what happens                       is you start to see the outcome see where it’s all headed & then you do   So you don’t want to go there anymore but there’s already nowhere else to... »

NOW IS THE TIME
TO FINALLY FIX CONGRESS

<center>NOW IS THE TIME<br />TO FINALLY FIX CONGRESS</center>

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an ins… Read the rest »

CHICAGO 7
FUNDRAISER SPIEL
from Abbie Hoffman, 1970

<center>CHICAGO 7</font><br /><font size = 4>FUNDRAISER SPIEL<br />from Abbie Hoffman, 1970</font></center>

Ok, given what’s been happening in this country, who better to serenade us than our dear Abbie, with this first time online oldie but goldie from the middle of the Chicago 7 (8) trial. »

The fiction of the state:
The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters
by Richard Cummings

<center><font size = 4>The fiction of the state:</font><br /><font size = 6>The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters</font><br /><font size = 3>by Richard Cummings</font></center>

But why should anyone care about a small literary magazine with a limited subscription base? And how does it manage to pay someone like Goureveich? Why does The New York Times give so much coverage to the magazine, when there are other publications of equal merit that labor on in relative obscurity? It is... »

THE HISTORY OF THE GROWTH OF HISTORY
from the novel
VIRTUALLY REALITY
(on the coast of Nebraska)

by Mike Golden

<center><strong>THE HISTORY OF THE GROWTH OF HISTORY</strong><br /><font size = 3>from the novel</font><br /><strong><font size = 5>VIRTUALLY REALITY<br /> (on the coast of Nebraska)</font></strong><br /><font size = 4>by Mike Golden</font></center>

No big thing, but it wasn't a secret to anyone who was paying attention that the end of the world was a process not an event, yet when the inevitable finally kicked in, 99.4 percent of the population, including the religious zealots who were praying for it to happen, still didn't realize it. ... »

David Foster Wallace:
Portrait of an Infinitely Limited Mind
by Ramon Glazov

<center>David Foster Wallace:<br />Portrait of an Infinitely Limited Mind<br /><font size = 3>by Ramon Glazov</font></center>

You have to give David Foster Wallace some credit – he was better at making his fans bash themselves than any other writer of the Pynchon school. His magnum opus, Infinite Jest, is a 1000-page novel full of intestinally-shaped sentences and fine-print notes on calculus, organic chemistry and VCR programming. Normally, when a book... »

An excerpt from the novel
Slow Fade
by Rudolph Wurlitzer

<center><font size = 4> An excerpt from the novel</font><br />Slow Fade<br /><font size = 3> by Rudolph Wurlitzer</font></center>

He was up fourteen grand. He decided to keep four for himself and give the rest to Walker as paymen… Read the rest »

Victor Harwood Interviews
Regis Debray

<center><font size = 4>Victor Harwood Interviews</font><br /> Regis Debray</center>

At conclusion of his interview, Debray said that Che "had the same conception of death as Fidel or Marti. That is, death as a promise of rebirth. Death as a sort of acceleration of life, a kind of ritual of renewal. "And with his death, I think we have a decision we didn't have... »

The Ballad of WHO KILLED MLK

<center><font size=+2><b>The Ballad of WHO KILLED MLK</b></font></center>

Obviously, politics breeds strange bedfellows, and those bedfellows have been known to breed more than a few conspiracies hiding behind generic government cover-ups, i.e., such as the blatant cronyism behind war profiteering and the oil companies’ windfall profits at the expense of the rest of the economy. And while we’re at it, let’s not... »

Sally Detroit’s
Never Blame the Booster For What the Sucker Does

<b><center><font size=+1>Sally Detroit’s</font><br /><font size=+2>Never Blame the Booster For What the Sucker Does</font></b>

Hello out there in Smoke Signals land. Lookit. I got a new secretary these days. Lucky for me he ca… Read the rest »

A BUM LOVE STORY
Viola and B. Prune

reverently continuing the tradition of
Damon Runyon

<center>A BUM LOVE STORY<font size=3><b><br />Viola and B. Prune
<br />reverently continuing the tradition of <br />Damon Runyon</font></b>

WHEN SALLY DETROIT CAME TO NEW YORK to visit her sister and turn over 50 pounds of bay scallops, little did she know that she would fall in love and get the ride of her life. While her baby sister Alice had pursued the dreams of the upwardly mobile, Sal was the wandering gypsy... »

Darius James’
Free
Brother Bobby!

<center><font size=+1>Darius James’</font><br /><font size=+3>Free<br />Brother Bobby!</font></center>

Sometime between the ages of eight and nine, traumatized by The Story of Dr. Doolittle, and his a… Read the rest »

DARIUS JAMES
DR. SNAKESKIN SPEAKS

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