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AREA/Chicago Underground Library Welcome Reception for The Alternative Press Center Magazine Archive

Published on October 7, 2008 0 Comments

AREA and the Chicago Underground Library are pleased to invite you to a welcome party for the Alternative Press Center, who recently relocated their impressive archive of independent media to Chicago after several decades in Baltimore. Progressive and radical librarians, academics, students, researchers, and concerned citizens of Chicago are invited to come out for a night of complimentary drinks and snacks to say hello and welcome to Alternative Press Center (APC) staff and check out this new amazing local resource.

The APC is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.

Friday, October 24th, 2008 from 7-9pm, 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. on the 2nd floor (Location is not handicap accessible.)

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of September 28th, 2008 – October 4th

Published on October 6, 2008 0 Comments

1.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2.    Bust Oct Nov 08 $4.99
3.    Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00
4.    What’s Your Poo Telling You by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth (Chronicle) $9.95
5.    Butt #24 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
6.    Proximity #2 Cities Issue $10.00
7.    Scarecrow by Max G Morton $6.00
8.    Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (Scribner) $24.00
9.    Demons In the Spring by Joe Meno (Akashic) $24.95
10.  Pot Culture: A to Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life by Shirley Halperin (Universe) $19.95

Today’s Featured Book: Beautiful Mutants by Mark Mothersbaugh

Published on October 3, 2008 0 Comments

Yes, that Mark Mothersbaugh — the lead singer of Devo. Beautiful Mutants is the show catalog for the 2007 exhibition of the same name at CSUF Grand Central Art Center Project Room in Santa Ana, CA. It has lots of old timey photos of interesting people (Carmen Miranda, the Del Rubio Triplets, various circus-y freak people, just to name a couple, even a few pugs! I’ve seen the artist with his pugs. Awesome!) halved and then resewn to show the same half as the opposite side. What do I mean? OK, so let’s say you took a picture of me. Oh, and let’s say I’m a sad-eyed perfumier in Brecksville, Ohio in like, the forties. In one hand I’m holding some flowers. And in the other hand I’m holding lace. So then you take the side where I’m just holding the flowers and make a replica of that side, except that you reverse it. Now both sides are facing each other, totally symmetrical. You cut away the side with the lace, and you attach the side with the reversed image of me holding the flowers. And voila! I look like a very mutilated version of myself. And my sad eyes are way too close together. Or way too far apart so I look freaky like Jackie O. Does this make any sense? Some of the photos in the book the eyes are so close together that it makes one eye, so it’s like a cycloptic magician or something. Crazy!

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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of September 21st – September 27th 2008

Published on September 29, 2008 0 Comments

1.    Demons In the Spring by Joe Meno (Akashic) $24.95
2.    Sin A Deadly Anthology by the Chicago Contingent $17.99
3.    Bust Oct Nov 08 $4.99
4.    Proximity #2 Cities Issue $10.00
5.    Chunklet #20 $9.99
6.    Annalemma #3 $10.00
7.    Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth (McSweeneys) $22.00
8.    Butt #24 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
9.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10.  Adbusters #80 $8.95

Today’s Featured Book: Concrete Inspection by Crispin Hellion Glover

Published on September 26, 2008 2 Comments

Subtitle of Concrete Inspection by Crispin Hellion Glover: “A Manual of Information And Instructions For Inspectors With Standard And Typical Specifications.” Actually it’s a collage telling the story about the narrator’s mother (among other things). Even though it’s a black hardcover with copper engraving (I think maybe engraving is the right word), it feels very zine-ish ’cause of its cut-and-paste approach. Funny that the story would be about the narrator’s mother (and we realize you should never assume the narrator is the author), since when we call the publisher (Volcanic Eruptions) to place reorders, we’re pretty sure that we talk to Crisin’s mom. We’re not 100% sure on this one, but well, pretty sure. Maybe. Anyway, we have some of his other books too, here.

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