Monday, September 7, 2009

aNTiFAmE

"It’s not about striking it rich anymore, but doing whatever you’re doing as well as you can. Live it yourself in the new world. That's anti-fame. Accepting personal responsibility for your expressions as a creative being, declaring yourself unstandardized by choice, is a brave reclamation of property rights, the exact opposite of giving up." -Zack Kopp, author of Undamned!,Gut co-editor,managing editor, www.MightyMercury.com

the vectors and intersections of print and electronic reading matter shift these days. content, even 20 years ago, of underground comix, or fanzines, say, always manifested a strange variety. now zines, books or chapbooks become sites or blogs maybe selling or promoting blogs or chapbooks. the internet has always been a natural place for DIY endeavors. now in the 3rd age, where it's all monetized and dominated by hyper flashbannered ads selling car insurance, cellphones and penis enlargement pills, nuggets of the real dope still can be dug up.

The Gut Zine was a zine that turned into a blog but is still a zine. It describes itself best.
THE GUT is an ANTI-FAME publication. "Anti-Fame" is an equivalent alternative to stardom or fandom, more diverse, with room for everyone. We are capable of everything to the degree we are capable of anything. There is no bottomline. This is our house.


THE GUT
can keep you
up to date on
who's in charge of
what's unknown!

THE GUT ZINE





The blog, The New Vulgate, proclaims itself "a new low in topical enlightenment". Essays on anything from, say, the filmography of Warren Oates, Western Democracy as a bait and switch con game, an insider's account of the early SF hardcore punk days, ethnic unrest and racism in China, may seem disjointed. But there's a common denominator where geopolitics and popculture history overlap.
THE NEW VULGATE


The Alternating Current Homepage portals into a couple of blogs and, twitter, Googlegroups, FB and Myspace pages. But most importantly, it goes to a catalog of Propaganda Press, which has like a hundred chapbooks. It represents a coop which is "here to challenge you to create new and bold art; then to give you an outlet to mainstream that art to a larger audience. we distribute, produce, market, sell, and love innovative, fresh, controversial, and important creative works and social/political commentaries of all kinds."
Alternating Current


Brian Polk uses Myspace to promote his novel, Turning Failure into Ideology, and the best of anthology of his zine, the Yellow Rake. In the novel Eli Indignation refuses to let society assess his creative endeavors—regardless of the income they generate, which is nil. The Best of the Yellow Rake distills the zine. After five years and 17 issues, the photocopied, hand-stapled zine known to Denver cultural warriors as The Yellow Rake continues to embody all the grit, humor, and audacity of a punk culture notorious for instigating self-reliance and creative self-determination.
Turning Failure Into Ideology Myspace


enlightened pyramid publishes unpretentious and sometimes funny fiction and non-fiction. They also epublish. Their soon to be released book, Vato Maldito; My Life of Crime, by John "Bubbles" Gallegos, tells it like it was from the other side of the barbed wire fence. "A notorious Denver professional criminal tell his story in his own words. Armed robbery, addiction and hard time are just the tip of the ice berg in this career thief's autobiography."


enlightened-pyramid


The Mighty Mercury site is a continually updated selection of short fiction, verse, art, photography, and commentary (mainly interviews, reports, and reviews), and longer works of fiction and nonfiction are published serially by invitation. MM currently post chapters of Vato Maldito, out soon from enlightened pyramid.
Mighty Mercury

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