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Noise Pop: The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger
The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was due to take the stage any minute, and the venue was still half empty. The bar remained fairly quiet until well past the posted show time of 8pm, and the crowd…
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The Possessed
“I originally wanted to turn this material into a novel or fictionalized stories, but no one was enthusiastic about this, not even my wonderful editor. Publishing it as nonfiction, I stand by it, but it wasn’t my original decision and…
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An Elizabethan Bestiary Retold
An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold was published by Horse & Buggy Press in 1999, in an edition of just 1000 copies. The book primarily consists of Jeffery Beam’s poems (reworkings of bestiaries found in The Elizabethan Zoo) and Ippy Patterson’s illustrations.
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Dark Green Underbelly
With healthcare reform moving at such a sluggish rate, we’ve all become pretty exasperated by the worsening creases in Washington. In the face of so much disagreement, thank goodness the environmental movement is so unified. Who in their right mind…
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Resident Bohemians: The Futurist, Stanley Kubrick
Soon after finishing Dr. Strangelove in 1964, Stanley Kubrick became fascinated with alien life forms and decided that he wanted to make a sci-fi movie. Not knowing much about it, he needed a co-writer, or rather, a co-creator. He knew…
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Morning Coffee
This is an article about Martian lubricant. Pretty much the weirdest headline I’ve read today. “I could really use a bad-ass architecture based link.” How about this water-purifying skyscraper? “I dunno, do you have anything involving quarries?” Oh, here you…
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The Contradiction of Contradiction: A Conversation with Banksy
“The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the young, bright, creative people, leaving us with only the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in human history has…
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How to Make It
“You basically built a band with very thin musical talent to begin with.” Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss, who is also the front man for The Yellow Dress, talks with SF Intercom about how to make it as an indie…
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Fundraising Alert: Help Send Ariana Reines on a UN Mission to Haiti
So listen to this. Ariana Reines—poet, playwright, translator, publisher, and frequent target of this site’s affection—has been invited to join a UN Mission to Haiti which leaves on Thursday. She will spend March 12-19 traveling with a group of trauma…