Black Balloons
When I died — a long time ago — I was buried with wolf-fangs and transistor radio. While brain festered in my skull, I pondered negative numbers and the mess I had left: bills, some jottings reminding me to return a phone call from the black side of the sun.
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Death, fear, action, and Tiny Tim: a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a madman awaits our heroes!
On Literary Evolution: An Interview with Stéphane Mallarmé
An 1891 interview with Mallarmé, translated from the French by poet Cid Corman.
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S.C. Rooge revels in his evil plot to put the dead to work. How does he do it, and what will Zuggy and Kathy do about it? Read on to find out!
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Ollie sends in the Ecto Squad to clean out the ghouls. It could take a while, but worry not! There will be plenty to stimulate and inform with no danger of tepid uneventfulness!
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S. C. Rooge, under increasingly powerful anesthesia, remembers and reveals his descent into black magick technology. Zuggy and Kathy: you got a big storm coming!
A Remembrance of Aerial Forms
It was all a bullfight in the end—/The smell of death contends/With rain, and more blood than/We can measure or imagine is/Surrounded by spinning black/Umbrellas—
Assembly Required at The Pulitzer
Is interactivity really the same freedom that art is supposed to help us access?
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Zuggy and Kathy’s host has a dark and disturbing childhood full of trauma. Not inflicted on him: but inflicted BY him!
Some Observations on Charles Ray: Figure Ground at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022)
Charles Ray is unquestionably one of the most powerful and challenging sculptors alive. His recent works presented at the Met carry within them a subtle and expansive understanding of space, a boundless wit and delicacy, and a deep sense of history.
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Zuggy and Kathy’s mechanism is working and they dive deep into their host’s mind. What secrets will come to light when they look into his angry past?