Jordan Heller’s ‘Roid Rave’ story cited in Vanity Fair
Casey McKinney05.13.09
About a month ago Jordan Heller wrote a controversial story for Fanzine showing the other side of the steroids debate – that they can actually have wonderful benefits for the right candidates when used properly – Vanity Fair cited his article recently in a steroid piece of their own. Michael Hogan asks should baseball just go ahead and allow steroids in America’s hallowed game that’s been made much less holy (that is – besides the pincushions players have made of their bodies) the past few decades?
BOMBS AWAY: Five Live Long shots to Die For, A 2009 Kentucky Derby Preview
Pete Hausler05.01.09
As Pete Hausler pointed out last year, there are some very unscientific ways to bet on the Kentucky Derby, even more so than the stock market, which was seemingly almost still okay then. But this time around he focuses on long shots specifically, so oh nelly, gamblers get ready for heavy panting on Derby Day – TODAY – Saturday, May 2nd, yes read now before you place your bets. Cover Art by Danny Jock ("I Want Revenge" – good name but sits as a/the favorite, rather than a long shot….and wait, Update: I want Revenge was scratched this morning due to an injury. Hmmm. And with a sloppy track now odds keep changing.) 2nd Update:….And it’s over! And whaddayaknow A Long Shot Won, Calvin Borel on Mine That Bird, at 50-1 odds! Check the Derby postmortum on the Fanzine Blog.
Talk Show 24 with Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer
Jaime Clarke04.30.09
Hate to set these blurbs up with the personal (CM here), but when I think of first apartments not sure whether to count the one at the New School I dropped out of after the first semester (four of us in the dorm, each with their own addiction- booze, coke, pot and heroin, made for nice company, nobody messing with each others stuff really, except the booze…and the pot, oh and sometimes the…). Or the next in LA that I paid $200 a month for with a murphy bed, splitting the space with a friend sleeping next to me on the floor on a futon, a couch separating. Writing table in the closet was a good hideout for when the other had a date. Ah the good old days! Anyway, host Jaime Clarke talks here in TS24 to authors Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer about their first apartments. Enjoy. Art by Danny Jock
‘and so his noise was ours too for those times’ – On Ronald Tavel (1936 – 2009)
Jennifer Krasinski04.24.09
So the story goes that Andy Warhol needed a narrator’s voice when he made the move from silent pictures to "talkies." And Ronald Tavel had just the voice, i.e. the serpent in the garden he sought after. But Tavel turned out to be an artist far greater than Andy originally bargained for. He built his name with Warhol sure, as his narrator and screenwriter, but Tavel’s own projects of poetry, fiction, and especially the theatrical arts are in a class all their own, as he took his audience from the tame waters of the "absurd" out into the utter "ridiculous." Jennifer Krasinski gives Tavel, who died earlier this month, a proper sendoff. Illustrations by Danny Jock.
A Triennial is Born And It’s Younger Than Jesus
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley04.16.09
Yes there is a new ‘-ennial’ out there. A triennial – at the New Museum in New York’s (re)burgeoning bowery art scene. On inception it’s being called The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, because everyone in the show is under 33. And we wonder if they are going to keep the same title ever year? ‘Younger than Jesus’ that is? I mean what if all the believers out there are right and Jesus happens to come back in the years in between? Guess the Priory of Sion is not in on this one. Alyssa Bianca-Pavley, quite younger than Jesus herself, gives us the run down in brief.
Talk Show 23: with Jenna Blum, Julia Glass, Nellie Hermann and Matthew Pearl
Jaime Clarke04.04.09
In Talk Show 23, that magical number, host Jaime Clarke gives authors Jenna Blum, Julia Glass, Nellie Hermann and Matthew Pearl a forum to bitch a little about something that they think is overrated currently, be it oh…what’s the big buzz these days? Twittering? Or how about good old fashioned Facebook? or maybe it’s the still hottest Eastern fitness trend (hmm what could that be?) that makes a certain writer’s skin crawl. And what about text messaging? Isn’t that some rotten thing we’ve all gotten snookered into? Then there’s iThis and iThat… Answers, complaints and suggestions are all filed here. Art by Danny Jock.
American Mirrored – Dan Graham: Beyond
Zoey Mondt03.23.09
Dan Graham has been a working artist since the 1960’s, and is one of America’s foremost talents, carving paths in the conceptual field, in sculpture, architecture, performance art and video. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is currently housing a retrospective of his work, Dan Graham: Beyond. Zoey Mondt glimpses through the myriad of mirrors that Graham holds up with a critical eye, reflecting who we are (in case we don’t know).
Roid Rave: Steroids, They Do A Body Good?
Jordan Heller03.05.09
When the news of A-Rod’s steroid use broke, cries of "cheater" were bandied about the tabloids, but nothing of how the slugger may have negatively affected his health. If the health risk is minimal, and steroids can help get a player into the Hall of Fame, what can they do for the rest us? Jordan Heller reports. Art by Danny Jock.
Talk Show 22: Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor & Nathaniel Rich
Jaime Clarke02.25.09
Cartoons, let’s see: Droopy, Huckleberry hound, Smurfs, Battlestar Galactica…too many to name. Could always get my own bowl of Fruit Loops at the crack of dawn to get cracked up on, but just as cornbread and iced tea took the place of pills and 90 proof for old Bocephus, I’m more soy milk and granola these days, and regretfully couldn’t say what’s on the tube Saturday mornings. Anyway, let’s see what these authors remember about their favorite toons as our host Jaime Clarke talks to Allison Amend, Ryan Boudinot, Francie Lin, Ed Park, Heidi Pitlor and Nathaniel Rich. Art by Danny Jock.
‘The Candidate’s Daughter’
Elizabeth Searle02.19.09
Say your mother is running for Vice President of the United States and you are a pregnant teenager, stuck on the campaign bus tending to your mother’s latest baby and brooding about your hockey-player boyfriend. In real life, you might feel totally trapped, but in Elizabeth Searle’s fictional version, the candidate’s daughter decides someone in her life needs a plan besides ‘Mommy and God.’ The trick is how ‘Cristal’ can give mother and the national press corps ‘the slip’ and start building her own power base. So dial back into election mode, and remember that any resemblance to actual individuals, living or dead, is purely – or maybe not so purely – coincidental. Art by Danny Jock.
