George’s Head by Jason Martin, Summer 1991
Read moreStupid Pages 3 – George’s Head
Back in the swing of things
I feel a bit like this today. After a month away, the Wow Cool Engineroom has returned to full function and will be resuming a regular schedule. I recently discovered that the writer Warren Ellis had been doing a similarly named blog project, but...
Read moreStupid Pages 2 – Annoying Expressions
Annoying Expressions by Jason Martin, Fall 1991
Read moreMany wizards had them, but not many ever bothered to use them.
Even the brute called Chickenwire treated Teatime with caution, if not respect, and the monster called Banjo just followed him around like a puppy. Worse, he was found to be smart and weird and crazy, intolerably so on all these counts and...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages
Ah yes… Over Six Years in the Making! One of the last major projects of Brown Cuts Neighbors. We’d been a band, a TV Show, An Art Movement… and The Stupid Pages was to be a comic book. A very stupid one. The goal of supreme simplicity...
Read moreWords don’t mean a damn thing
So, yeah, the usual dose of spam today… but there was something different, something a little… I dunno… special. The occasional poetry of spam subject lines was exceptionally strong. I want a new word to describe it…...
Read moreFive Years on… James Kopta, Hero
I have a favorite story about Jim that I’ve never told…We both used to be pretty regular denizens of the Schenectady Public Library, and I remember once he asked me, “hey, have you ever looked up ‘reality’ in the...
Read morePunk Rock and Remember
Or, If you were really punk you’d have thrown a full bottle, part 2… I guess. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen. was on TV today, the Sundance Channel. It was pretty riveting stuff for me… but really a pretty weird documentary. I didn’t...
Read moreGreat Black Swamp Olde Time Strongman Picnic – DVD is out Now!
Not the oddest credit on my CV, but close. This is the glossy video document of that strange and singular event I co-promote in the wilds of Ohio every year. It’s a lot more than just a buncha guys bending and lifting stuff. Here’s the official...
Read moreRe-Reading Frenzy
Reposted from the Reading Frenzy Ledger. Help Chloe out! Please donate your used books, comics and zines for an upcoming fundraiser for Ye Olde Reading Frenzy! We’ll be having a used zine smorgasbord during the Portland Zine Symposium...
Read moreThe Worlds Most Boring Man
I found out tonight that John Peel had a rubber stamp that he’d sign off on letters with [in red] that read “John Peel, The Worlds Most Boring Man”. That’s “John Peel” on one line… the rest, centered on...
Read moreAnother bird story
Apparently some wood bees had bored there way in to a plank of wood near a knot in the rail on my back deck. Finding this too delicious a bit of wordplay to ignore, a woodpecker decided to blast his way into the board to dig them out. I found the...
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