The New Orleans Bookfair (www.bookfair.com) was a resounding success, with me handing out over a hundred 'zines, and receiving over 65 bucks in "tips," including a much sought-after two-dollar bill.

Sweet!  Anyway, I am generally paranoid that events in general will suck, but the Bookfair turned out not to suck.  I had visions of sitting alone at a table in room that no one entered while being stuck sitting next to crazy Wiccan and Anarchist writers who tried to win me over to their world-view...  but it was nothing like that at all.  It was really fun and busy and there was booze and free cotton candy and funny comic books and cute girls and gutter-punky looking boys who generally turned out to be dating the cute girls and the weather was beautiful and we did readings out on the balconies of the French Quarter.

So, if you haven't yet been to the Bookfair, I'm going again next year, and so should you.

The Magazine will also be at the Alternative Arts Expo in New Orleans in Feburary, but I'm too hungover to get the link for that right now.

In the meantime -- hey, did you know that bitches ain't shit?  According to N.W.A. and the singer Ben Folds, they really aren't.  Check it out.  And yeah, I know this song is on my front page, but it still kills me for some reason.  It seems so depressing and profound to me even though it's also really awful.  Enjoy!

 

 

 

--Oliver