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Richard Metzger of DISINFO

Jun ’04
4
12:00 am

Richard Metzger live in-store
Saturday June 5th 2PM
 
Disinformation co-founder and “wicked warlock” Richard Metzger signs and discusses the company\’s book and DVD releases.
 
A highlight of the afternoon is the screening of rarely seen clips from the infamous “banned” Disinformation TV series, first aired on Channel 4 in the UK and bought for the US by SciFi Network, whose executives panicked once they realized what they had bought and promptly shelved the episodes. The Los Angeles Times described the show as “The Punk Rock 60 Minutes”.
 
Segments include revelations on transsexual glamor chic; Brice Taylor, the alleged “CIA brain-slave” (who claimed Sylvester Stallone made her have sex with dolphins); and the high-tech, alien-connected Montauk Project. Metzger\’s favorite artists, Joe Coleman and Paul Laffoley, were featured, as were segments from the notorious Uncle Goddamn, a mentally challenged and brutally extreme version of Jackass.

Perpetual Motion Roadshow #14

Jun ’04
1
12:00 am

Quimby?s welcomesThe Perpetual Motion Roadshow #14
Starring Gavin Grant, Geoffrey Goodwinand, Lisa LadouceurMonday, July 12th, 8:00pm
 
Gavin J. Grant moved from Scotland to the USA in 1991. He worked in bookshops in LA and Boston and then for BookSense.com. He lives in Northampton, MA with his wife, Kelly Link, and is trying to balance freelancing, Small Beer Press, and renovating an old farmhouse. Since 1996 he has published a zine, Lady Churchill?s Rosebud Wristlet. He reviews for BookPage and Xerography Debt and has written for the Hartford Courant, Time Out New York, Scifiction, The Urban Pantheist, Full Unit Hookup, Surgery of Modern Warfare, and .is this a cat? His accent comes through when he reads.
More info is at: http://lcrw.net/lcrw/index.htm
 
Geoffrey H. Goodwin is a sober and decent person, but he’s terrified of reality. Some people go “EeEeEek!” when they see a rodent or a tarantula –and Geoffrey sometimes does that too — but he’s most often left gasping by things that occur in the “real world.” (This is not to say that both rodents and tarantulas are not sometimes considered “real,” but this rapidly devolves into an epic ramble involving semantics, mousetraps and segmented legs.) So, most of all, Geoffrey H. Goodwin performs speculative fiction, strange off-kilter rants that attempt to make the strange, strange world make sense, sense, sense.
More info: http://www.surgeryofmodernwarfare.com/archives/dec2203/dec2203.html
 
Liisa Ladouceur writes poems and reads signs. She was born with one i in Penetanguishene, Ontario a small town famous for its asylum and curlers. She got out with her sanity and her hair crimper and landed in Toronto, where she works as a rock critic/pop culture pundit for papers (eye weekly) and radio (CBC). Recently, her obsession with signs has resulted in a series of poems composed entirely from words photographed in public spaces. She will read these, with accompanying photos, along with new Sign Language poems created in each city of the tour, performed fresh nightly, nicely.
More info is at: http://www.spiderrecords.com/liisa
 

Graphic Novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels reads from The Changers

May ’04
27
12:00 am

Graphic Novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels reads from
The Changers
Saturday, May 15th, 7:30 PM
 
Join Ezra Claytan Daniels in debuting his new project: The Changers Progress Diary, a full-length Audio CD verbally chronicling the circumstances surrounding and influencing the creation of The Changers, one of the most critically acclaimed sci-fi graphic novels of 2003. From inspiration to insecurity, elation to devastation, and beginning to end, The Changers Progress Diary is a unique and unprecedented step into the mind of the artist. Along with the signing there will also be an original art raffle, a live reading, and special guest Grant Reynolds?author of the comics Orange Dirt & Study Group 12.
 
The Changers is a unique epic of subtle realism that reverentially embraces the conceptual foundations of the Science Fiction genre. The story\’s drama arises from the psychological conflict manifesting between Bisso and Geaza, and the lengths to which each will go to make the other submit. Their positions staked firmly on morally unstable grounds, these are not heroes and villains, but simply people made remarkable by nothing more than the circumstances of their origins – and the emotionally crippling burdens set upon them by those they left behind.
 
Featuring over 45 minutes of original background music, The Changers Progress Diary CD is the centerpiece of a limited edition (500), signed, numbered bundle which also includes both volumes of The Changers miniseries, all bound together in a semi-transparent, high-quality vellum wrap.
 
More info is at: www.dream-chocolate.com

Minus Times Event

May ’04
15
12:00 am

Hunter Kennedy and Jeff Johnson of
the Minus Times read Live at Quimby?s
Sunday, April 25th, 4:30 PM
 
Hunter Kennedy and Jeff Johnson of the Minus Times will be conducting a reading where they will read stories, letters, and personal ads until asked to leave.
 
Jeff Johnson is the contributing editor for the Minus Times as well as a regular contributor to McSweeney\’s and senior editor at Jane Magazine. Hunter Kennedy is an editor and novelist last known to be hiding out in Charleston, South Carolina.
 
The current issue of the Minus Times #28 features:
 
Contributors:
Bell / Berman / deWitt / Foust / Haynes
Johnson / H.Kennedy / T.Kennedy / Laus / Lipsyte
Logan / McKenna / Neely / Rotter / Van Daley
 
plus:
Interview with Stephen Colbert of The Daily Show
 
Mixed tapes from:
Spoon, Califone, Decemberists, Songs: Ohia
 

Lori Wallach discusses the WTO

Apr ’04
29
12:00 am

Lori Wallach discusses her new book Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO
Thursday, April 22nd, 7:30 PM
 
“A crucial guide – devastating and highly readable. Wallach and Woodall are warriors for democracy against its most powerful opponents.”
-Naomi Klein Author No Logo & Fences and Windows
 
Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways-often for the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening expos? documents, the current terms of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable: they are merely one option being imposed by the powerful, secretive, and profoundly undemocratic World Trade Organization.
 
Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO is the definitive guide to the WTO. It reveals which World Trade Organization policies have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe food, attacks on long-standing environmental and health laws, and burgeoning international inequality. Want to know why the WTO attracts such passionate protests all over the world? This book explains the lopsided agreements and secret tribunals that are the WTO?s stock in trade. Public Citizen advocates Wallach and Woodall carefully document the World Trade Organization\’s appalling nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts.
 
Lori Wallach is the Director of Global Trade Watch, a division of the Nader-founded Public Citizen. A leading expert on trade issues, she has been called “brainy” by The Nation, “savvy” by Business Week, “scrappy” by the Miami Herald and “Ralph Nader with a sense of humor” by the Wall Street Journal. Wallach has testified as a trade lawyer on NAFTA, GATT-WTO, and other trade issues before over 30 U.S. congressional committees, numerous other countries? legislatures, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. She has served as a trade commentator on CNN, ABC, CNBC, C-SPAN, All Things Considered, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.