Super Bowl XLII: Prediction and Preview
Jon Weissberg02.02.08
Lamenting his "off" betting in the championship games, Jon Weissberg returns to assert that it’s time to give a little brother some, Eli that is. Giants meet the Pats on Sunday, and don’t you think Tiki wishes he was there in uniform? (That’s Jon in a – whoops – Jets hoodie overlooked by Ham On Rye from Heaven by Danny Jock).
Forget the Hits: Here is Animal Collective
Ross Simonini01.31.08
Ross Simonini will walk a mile (or drive all the way to Utah) for an Animal Collective show. Why? Not to sing along to the hits, because the AC homies don’t play those. But they do give their all nonetheless, and always something new, on the petri dish canvass some call a stage.
Talk Show 8 with Allison Lynn, Joshua Neuman, Thisbe Nissen, Dan Pope, and Rachel Sherman
Jaime Clarke01.30.08
In the new Talk Show Jaime Clarke leads the gab with authors Allison Lynn, Joshua Neuman, Thisbe Nissen, Dan Pope, and Rachel Sherman. The theme this time around is "family myths." They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but is your family as disfunctional as the folks on Seinfeld? Or wish they were? Find out about a family who does and more in Talk Show 8. Art by Danny Jock.
45 More Stories by Donald Barthelme
Brian Howe01.24.08
You’d think for the latest collection from Donald Barthelme, the man who left us the sets 60 Stories and 40 Stories, he might have settled on an even medium of 50 stories, but alas, never predictable (and dead, so obviously not making these decisions), gives up his ghost again in a new collection just 5 short of mathematical balance. Fitting for a writer whose sentences of anal algebra glean amidst an illusion of sweet anarchy (that makes no sense, I am all blurbed out). Brian Howe reviews Flying to America: 45 More Stories, Turkish delight for the Barthelme completist. Cover image of B. by Danny Jock.
Tom Brady Is Handsome
Jon Weissberg01.20.08
It’s the the last day of football before the superbowl. Chargers play the Pats and Bret Favre and crew take on New York’s Giants. Last week, Jon Weissberg and friends finally noticed that not only can Tom Brady execute some pretty fine work in under two minutes, but that he’s also, admitedly (in the most objective terms), pretty fine. Let’s see if Jon’s predictions hold up over the next few hours. Read fast! Undefeated Tom drawing by Danny Jock.
The Year the Western Returned?
Mark Asch01.19.08
Mark Asch takes a look back through 2007 – a year that found filmakers producing perhaps an inordinate amount of neo-Westerns – then decides whether or not they live up to the the standards of the classics. Seems many missed their mark, nevertheless a few have now cleaned house at the Oscars.
An Interview with Stoya
Brandon Stosuy01.18.08
Brandon Stosuy returns with an interview of another of the bright new pornographers (no not the Canadian band) following his exclusive with Sasha Grey (who just won AVN performer of the year!). This time around we meet 21 year old sex star/entrepreneur Stoya. Stoya makes her own rubber clothes, reads a ton, blogs on social networking sites like God’s Girls, and has no patience for bad Metallica covers.
Sarkozy’s Soap Operetta: Eight Months in Office With the French President
Devon Magee01.12.08
Nicolas Sarkozy has yet to complete a full year in office as French President, and yet he’s generated much media copy from French tabloids keeping tabs on his recent divorce and wooing of singer/songwriter, former model, and Italian, Carla Bruni, to The Economist watching his moves closely as he battles the intransigent poverty and rapidly approaching problem of Baby Boomer-age retirement. Devon Magee brings his insight back to Fanzine with his second piece on Sarkozy.
Talk Show 7: Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Maria Flook, Antonya Nelson, Darin Strauss
Jaime Clarke01.08.08
It’s Talk Show time again, and in episode 7 Jaime Clarke talks to authors Julianna Baggot, Lisa Borders, Maria Flook, Antonya Nelson and Darin Strauss about the most monumentally significant pop culture moments in their lives. Art by Danny Jock, who explains in defense of the somewhat baldness of his Tricky Dick spector that "ghosts don’t have hair, silly…"
An Interview with Toure
Carla Murphy01.04.08
Carla Murphy caught up with journalist, author, and now reality television host (“I’ll Try Anything Once”) Touré over the holidays. Of course she’d have preferred to have challenged him to some mildly absurd athletic contest to throw him off the question game (like Touré did over hoops when he interviewed Prince), but alas had to match wits via email. Murphy and Touré discuss surviving prep school, the future of hip hop, and Presidential contender (and as of this posting Iowa caucus winner) Senator Barack Obama.
