Loratadine can be a drag....


Allergies are a wild thing to contend with. Maybe that wasn't what was causing my pure lethargy. It couldn't have been depression because I wanted to do stuff! My ambition was still in existence. Body had oomph, head had nothing. I knew this feeling, it even messed with one of my relationships before I knew that I had allergies! My Mother and my pal Cindy- allergy sufferers both- recommended Loratadine as an allergy cure so I bought some as I figured it would make my day more productive! I downed the pill.
Long story short, I dropped by a library branch with my resume in hand, hungry for work, but so high as a kite that my fly was down and I had no idea! I was wondering around for an hour with baby blue briefs in full view! Looks like I didn't get that job...
And, apparently, these pills take a while to affect the allergies. Anyone want five remaining loratadine pills?

NEW ISSUE OF ROCTOBER


The new issue of Roctober is out now, this legendary longtime mag is on issue number 46!
I've contributed quite alot of stuff: plenty of comic reviews, Gordy Walker obituary, Kenneth Higney snippet, some illos (including the Stompin' Tom one shown here for the legendary Gary "Pig" Gold' appreciation).
Ish also has tonnes of stuff on trucking music, Flavour Flav interview by the legendary Nardwuar, illos by the legendary Plastic Crimewave, a Soul Train retrospective by the legendary Jake Austen, a JOE E appreciation by the legendary Gregg Turkington and the legendary Brandan Kearney, lots of COMIX, more....
I am honoured to be a regular contributor to this fine mag!
Where can you purchase this? It's tuff in Canada. If ya know of stores that do or want to carry it, or if you want to buy a copy yourself (pretty inexpensive)GO HERE:
www.roctober.com

Speaking of Joe E, this CD reissue is incredible! Go here:
http://www.eabla.com/

I am in love with it!Unfortunately I was working a crap dish-washing job where I the place was bought out and the staff let go! I showed up for work and, not only was there no work, half of my CDs were chucked out- including my JOE E! I sure do miss that CD....

FREE DRAWINGS 4

FREE DRAWINGS 4 is out now and available around Toronto and I believe at LUCKYS in Vancouver...it's got lots of "fan favourites" in it....I'm happy to be in it too cuz it's a nice paper...

More Monsters






Note the use of negative space. Wheezy werewolf was used for tee shirt for rock group The Battles who are now called Giantess even though they've been around longer than any other act with Battles in their name.

Why hello!

Come in, come in! Pull up a chair! Sit a spell or two....I've just chilled some Mountain dew for you, have a goblet full. Sit closer, i want to whisper in your nostrils....

I truly feel that as time goes on I feel less special, less 'cult of the individual' as it were, this is not necessarily a bad thing, We Are All Water (from different rivers) to quote a Yoko, Ono, Deus, Treize! Let's relate (real estate) to each other.

I used to 'zine' quite a bit in Ye olde 90s (if you can remember the 90s, you weren't there, mannnnnn) and the zines were usually about me, it even said on the masthead "500 Horse Power Ego Charged Zine!" I had an obsession with the non-fixed malleability of the autobiographical format and the persona bleed that can happen in one's own name, experiments were conducted, nervous breakdowns were faked.
Zines and newsprint fade.

We now live in a culture of narcissism, anyone with a camera and web access can be a 'party photographer' (please affix an animal of some sort to your party blog name).

And what'd did I just go and do?
Why I started a blatantly self-promotional blog!!!!!!!!!!!!Me me me me me me me meme meme! meee, me me me meme me me.

Enough of that. How was your day?