- TALES FROM THE OLD STASH
Jack Wesley Hardin’s
MEXICAN SWEAT (a smuggler’s memoir)
#9 THE FINAL EPISODE
- Gordo ordered them on their knees. There were 24 men and women, all wearing the same type backpack. There were two dark-skinned Mexicans that Sangrita had disarmed. They were the “Coyotes”, the guides that took part of the thousand dollar per person ticket to ride that these poor people paid to have a risky »
Keith Olbermann Special Comment:
The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal
Welcome to Times Square
Happy New Year
Columns
- Bukowski’s (all new)NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
What about fame? They ask me. Will fame destroy you? Well now, if I am famous and if it destroys me (meaning my talent) then sixty one years of my life will have gone by without my having sense any of the traps... » - Jim Harrison’s THE DEAD FOOD SCROLLS #5
One wonders, doesn't one, why historically we are insufficiently wily in foreign affairs. Without question it is because we do not eat vividly. more... » - Mike Golden’s APOCALYPSE WHEN?
He would always notice the spiderwebs.“We’re smoking them now,” he cackled. Which was when I realized the right half of my body was totally paralyzed. “Mine too,” he whispered. more... »
- ART RAVES ON about JFK conspiracy books, films, etc...
- ASSASSINATION BY OMISSION: GERALD POSNER
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Courtesy of The Exiled 
- Dave Hill’s LOVE REPORT with Venus & Serena
- Victor Harwood Interviews Regis Debray
- HATE MAIL: ASK DR. FAUSTROLL, PATAPHYSICIAN
If you’ve got the balls to ask our resident psycho-genius “How much more meaningless has life become during the Obaminable age of Social Networking?” do so at your own risk, you pussies more... » - Darius James' FREE BROTHER BOBBY
Sometime between the ages of eight and nine, traumatized by The Story of Dr. Doolittle, and his adventures in Hugh Loftig's whimsical Africa, wherein a cannibal the color of coal, and suited in an armor of rusty mop-buckets, was bleached by the titular hero to aid said cannibal in his quest for the heart of a fairyland lass, I forsooked the insidious charms of children's literature, embarking on an investigation of works consigned to disreputable -- nay, lunatic -- realms of public inquiry. more... » - Renfreu Neff’s SLEEPING AT THE MOVIES
As William Burroughs starts to explain why he always orders lamb chops in restaurants, Allen Ginsberg leaned over and confided to me that he & Bill (he eschews the deferential “William”) have had sex since the latter’s recent return. more... »
Mikhail Horowitz & Paul Austin
in SECOND COMING
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Trailer of the 1987 East Village Film about the return of you know who to the lower east side. more... »
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Jane King’s NURSE JANE
Two years ago I went to the hospital to visit a sick friend who just so happens to edit this mag, only to find he was being tortured by a sadistic nurse. At the time I had already developed an elaborate theory about nursing as an apt profession for sadists, so I put the booga-booga on the booga-booga she had put on my friend more... » Nancy Cohen’s MY DINNER WITH ABBIE -
The Further Adventures of Bart Plantenga's Confessions of a Beer Mystic #16 This is no longer the same San Remo where Dylan Thomas attempted gallant meldings of inebriation, gratification, and obliteration. I sat where I imagined he may have, trying to understand the dynamic of how his process of obliteration of self made him ever more eminently present. The more he killed himself the more alive he seemed. »- Rudy Wurlitzer’s The Drop Edge Of Yonder
The Captain and the Portuguese crew were afraid to set foot on land, convinced that the entire West Coast had been seized by a biblical conflagration; a disaster brought on, they had no doubt, by the godless scum of the earth » -
Buddy Godox’s
REGULAR JOB
Buddy Godox’s moving and pathetic performance of “Regular Job” from Mike Golden’s 1987 East Village film, “Second Coming.” Would you hire this guy?» - Bob Zmuda's Mr X Chronicles #3
“Anyway, so we’re in Jersey, drivin’ along in the limo, and Mr. X sees this bakery, and says, ‘Driver stop over here, I want a glazed donut. Okay, so inside, it’s midday and there’s a few people in line, so X just blurts out, ‘I want a glazed donut,’ real loud, like they’re all just hard of hearing, and this woman behind the counter, her name badge said ‘Flo’ » - The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle
Who killed d.a. levy? The last poet in America put of trial for the language of his art » - Sparrow & Foamola @ St. Marks Church
- Foamola has been described as "the best band since the Crimean War" by the Milwaukee Courier-Dispatcher. Since 1990, their frequent melodies have cheered the Lower East Side, and occasionally Soho.
- The Ballad of WHO KILLED MLK
- 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... »
- MODERN (You Call This) LIVING
Joey Amdahl’s TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART
- She woke up before noon, which is something she had not done for two or three years. Before she showered, she went for a jog. She came home, turned up her music, and practiced yoga for an hour. After her shower, she stood on the couch and pulled down the poster of George Clooney »
Shameless Gratuities?
- An excerpt from the novel SLOW FADE
by Rudolph Wurlitzer
- He was up fourteen grand. He decided to keep four for himself and give the rest to Walker as payment for the next installment of the script, making himself the producer. He would have Walker sign a paper saying all three of them owned the script equally. This was his move. … »
Books
Books
The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle – http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100707970
Confessions of a Beer Mystic – Bart Plantenga – http://smokesignalsmag.com/7/?p=6
THE PENMAN CHRONICLES – Rider Of The Jade Horse – by Michael Disend – http://smokesignalsmag.com/3/jade.html
THE PENMAN CHRONICLES – Fressers For Yahweh – Michael Disend – http://smokesignalsmag.com/7/?p=402
Goldberg – an excerpt from the novel – Michael Carnevale – http://smokesignalsmag.com/4/wordpress/?page_id=33
AUTO-EROTICA – Discovered – Stacia Saint Owens – http://smokesignalsmag.com/7/?p=68
The Drop Edge Of Yonder – an excerpt from the novel – Rudy Wurlitzer – http://smokesignalsmag.com/OldIssue/WurlitzerDropEdge.html
Yahzoo Blues – an excerpt from the novel – John Pritchard – http://smokesignalsmag.com/3/yazoo.html
THE HISTORY OF THE GROWTH OF HISTORY
from the novel
VIRTUALLY REALITY
(on the coast of Nebraska)
by Mike Golden
from the novel
VIRTUALLY REALITY
(on the coast of Nebraska)
by Mike Golden
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. ... »
The fiction of the state:
The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters
by Richard Cummings
The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters
by Richard Cummings
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... »
David Foster Wallace:
Portrait of an Infinitely Limited Mind
by Ramon Glazov
Portrait of an Infinitely Limited Mind
by Ramon Glazov
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... »
Excerpts from MICAH L. SIFRY‘S
WIKILEAKS
AND THE AGE OF
TRANSPARENCY
WIKILEAKS
AND THE AGE OF
TRANSPARENCY
“We don’t have the Internet that we think we have. . ." - Douglas Rushkoff - “Foreign policy can never be the same again. It cannot be run by elites. . ." - Gordon Brown - »
Bart Plantenga’s
Confessions of a Beer Mystic #5
Confessions of a Beer Mystic #5
There are those that know magic exists, but don’t know how or why it does, and those that do magic every day, but aren’t even aware they’re doing it. »
Ken Kesey talks about Neal Cassady
… Read the rest »
Waa!! What an Asshole!
… Read the rest »
The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle
Edited, with an investigative essay on Levy’s life and mysterious death, by Mike Golden… Read the rest »
Stories From Around the Web
Who Killed MLK?
Great Moments in Sportz
Fear & Loathing @
The Kentucky Derby
RALPH STEADMAN remembers meeting HUNTER S. THOMPSON: I heard a quick hiss from the spray can Hunter was brandishing. He had Maced me again!...
HUNTER meets RALPH: Another problem was his habit of sketching people he met in the various social situations I dragged him into--then giving them the sketches. »
WAA!!
WHAT AN ASSHOLE!
painting collage of UBU, THE DECIDER by aka
Fred Wistow introduces Malcolm Gladwell
The Fire Insider
for daily updates
Missionary Positions
fiction by Joe Maynard
Painting by Peter Cross
"dick lit" is here to acknowledge the good, bad and ugly that goes with it, as it celebrates every young boy's quest to get off the next time, and every old man's quest to get off one more time, before there is no time left to get off on... »
Viola and B. Prune
reverently continuing the tradition of
Damon Runyon
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... »
Great Moments in Sportz
Professor Irwin Corey Accepts
The National Book Award
for Thomas Pynchon
It happened Thursday, April 18th, 1974, at Alice Tulley Hall, and those that were there will never forget it (if they remember it at all). The National Book Awards, commercial publishing’s now defunct version of the Academy Awards was in the bottom of the ninth, down »
Mimi & Richard Farina Live
In 1965, Mimi and Richard Farina dropped by the studios of WTBS (now WMBR) with electric guitarist Barry Tashian (of Barry & the Remains) for music and talk with DJ Ed Freeman. Richard is on dulcimer. One of Mimi’s two guitars is tuned like a dulcimer. The explanation for the brief gap in the tape has long been lost.
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Michael Disend's RIDER OF THE JADE HORSE
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?
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Dick Lit
Stacia St. Owens’
DISCOVERED
“Dick lit” has been around since the first caveman’s curiosity stuck his dick into the equation when he rubbed those two rocks together around it until....
DISCOVERED
Millie tittered, which is how girls used to be taught to laugh. Tilda wondered if this were an intentional jab.
Nightlife
