Funny man Budge Threlkeld’s death in 2005 was heartbreaking but historically appropriate. Few could match his charisma, innate kindness, and epic wit. He could endear himself to Republican tourists at a Disney World comedy club as effortlessly as if they were a gang of stoned malcontents in a smoke-filled basement in New York City. more...
As irony would have it, our long time
friend, comic shaman & mentor Tuli
Kupferberg was 86ed @86 in the
summer of 2010 after suffering a
series of strokes the year before, at
approximately the same time his classic
Fugs CIA Man closed (and made) the
Coen brothers wild screwball comedy
Burn After Reading. Fortunately for all
of us who loved him, the co-founding Fug
left behind a large body of work and inspiration. "Don't ever leave your glue stick at home," he used to tell me as we walked the city streets. "There's work to be done."
Columns
Bukowski’s NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN #5
I was out there again today. There are some creatures
out there, How they manage to keep going out there
is a mystery. They are losers. more... »
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... »
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... »
Renfreu Neff’s SLEEPING AT THE MOVIES
As he starts to explain why he always orders lamb chops in restaurants,
Allen Ginsberg leans over and confides to me that he & Bill have had
sex since his return, “And he’s still great in bed.” So I never found out
why William Burroughs always ordered lamb chops in restaurants
more... »
CLUB 86'ed Presents Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine
I went down to the Saint James Wellness Facilty
To see if my baby could be cured
She was laid out cold on a gurney
So sad, so sweet, so uninsured
Let her go, Let her go, can afford it more... »
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... »
Aye, let there be witnesses to the rise & fall of human dignity crawling around on the floor and puking its depraved guts out on our very feet. If you have to ask what’s on the menu, we can’t serve you »
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 »
Bob Zmuda's Mr X Chronicles #1
I believe that Mr. X is still alive, and even now, more than twenty-five years later, I continue to be terrified of him. If I were to use his real name he might come after me. »
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.
painting collage of UBU, THE DECIDER by aka
Fred Wistow introduces Malcolm Gladwell
Max Blagg Commercial
Coming soon
Marlaine Glicksman Interviews ROBERT FRANK
Robert Frank first hit the road when he emigrated from his native Switzerland to New York in 1950 as a fashion photographer. In 1955, he traveled the American asphalt as a Guggenheim fellow for photography, and the resulting book of stills, The Americans, published in 1958, gained him both fame and infamy.... more coming...
Victor Harwood Interviews REGIS DEBRAY
Four days after the death of the mythic Argentine revolutionary figure Che Guevara, Régis Debray,
a French journalist in his twenties, sat in a Camiri, Bolivia jail sentenced to 50 years for attempting
the revolutionary overthrow of the Bolivian government... more coming...