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Perpetual Motion Roadshow #12

Published on June 21, 2004 0 Comments
Jun ’04
21
12:00 am

Quimby?s welcomes the Perpetual Motion Roadshow #12
starring Emily Pohl-Weary, Sonja Ahlers and Jim Munroe.Thursday, May 27th, 8:00pm
 
Perpetual Motion Roadshow #12 features the superhero team-up of the century! Superhero makeovers and more from the contributors to Emily Pohl-Weary’s Girls Who Bite Back! and movie-style trailers for Jim Munroe’s Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask!
 
Emily Pohl-Weary, editor of Kiss Machine and co-author with Judith Merril of the Hugo Award-winning Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, puts her unique stamp on the field of speculative fiction and pop culture in this one-of-a-kind anthology of short stories, cultural analysis, comics and artwork. Editor Emily Pohl-Weary, visual artist/writer Sonja Ahlers (Temper, Temper) and other contributors to the anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks will be doing a variety of fun performances.
Check out: http://girlswhobiteback.com
 
Roadshow organizer Jim Munroe is doing a No Media Kings edition of his cult-classic novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, and indie filmmakers have made short movie-style trailers to promote the corporate crime-fighting superheroes novel. They will be shown between the performances.
 
“Jim Munroe has written the first novel to harness the energy, idealism and cartoon inspired playfulness of the new wave of culture jammers. It’s about time we have some superheroes to save us after the post-irony meltdown — forces of corporate darkness, beware.” -Naomi Klein, author No Logo
Check out: http://nomediakings.org/flyboy.htm
 
ALL FOR FREE WOW!!!

Thomas Edwarrd Shaw of the Monks book signing

Published on June 18, 2004 0 Comments
Jun ’04
18
12:00 am

Thomas Edwarrd “Eddie” Shaw,bass player in The Monksbook signing event with RoctoberThursday April 29th 8PM
 
Thomas Edwarrd “Eddie” Shaw, bass player in The Monks, the legendary garage band made up of American GI’s based in Germany in the 60s. “The anti-Beatles” are often referred to as the first punk band, and their dark, intense LP “Black Monk Time” is considered one of the greatest albums of all time. Eddie will be signing copies of his critically accclaimed memoir of his days in the band, also titled Black Monk Time (Carson Street Press). He will also be signing his latest book, Beltrami’s River, a historical novel about a visionary amateur explorer. He will also discuss his upcoming book (which he will be in Chicago researching) about his days as a Jazz/Funk fusion musician in the 70s.
 
Jake Austen is the editor of Roctober Magazine and co-producer of Chic-A-Go-Go, Chicago’s longest running, first run, weekly local dance show. The latest issue of Roctober (to be released at this event) is the TV Rock & Roll issue, featuring amongst other things, an interview with Shaw about the monks legendary TV appearances.
In addition to Shaw’s signing and reading, there will also be a projected video of the monks German TV appearances.
 
WOW!!!
more info at www.roctober.com

ROAR Magazine Event

Published on June 17, 2004 0 Comments
Jun ’04
17
12:00 am

SPEC Chicago presents Readings from
ROAR MagazineFriday, April 23nd, 4:00 PM
 
SPEC Chicago presents an afternoon of readings featuring students from Jesse Senechal?s ROAR Magazine class at Kelvyn Park High School, Chicago.
 
Readers most likely will include: Isabel Jaimes, Christina Kortuba, Dennys Lucero, Rafael Diaz, Mayra Guitierrez, Alex Chamorro, Daisy Pelayo and Anais Torres.
 
Further information and updates can be found at www.selfpublishers.org

An evening of readings with Mike Smith, Mickey Hess & Andrew Walker

Published on June 5, 2004 0 Comments
Jun ’04
5
12:00 am

An evening of readings with Mike Smith, Mickey Hess & Andrew WalkerSaturday, July 10th, 7:00 PM
 
Mike Smith is a writer, but makes more by working at libraries and radio stations. Two of his stories have appeared in the Edward Society. He once used his training in English to teach high school Math. Tell Christian I\’m Sorry is his first novel and is loosely based on Smith\’s life, from his Fairdale, Kentucky upbringing to his short-lived teaching career.
 
Mickey Hess lives in Louisville, Kentucky, city of Colonel Sanders\’ grave and the KFC world headquarters. Author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, Nobody Likes a Smartass, and El Cumpleanos de Paco, Mickey is proud to be included in the forthcoming McSweeney\’s Humor Anthology. He teaches writing at Indiana University Southeast.
 
Andrew Walker has performed at places like the University of Louisville and Indiana University Southeast. He attends both of these universities simultaneously and enjoys his studies in writing. His story A Religious Revelation Without the Religion will be featured in the upcoming anthology, Where Handstands Surprise Us: The Best of the Bean Street Reading Series.
 
More info is at: www.mickeyhess.net
www.tellchristian.com
 
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Richard Metzger of DISINFO

Published on June 4, 2004 0 Comments
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.