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This week's report by FDW (FRANK WALSH)
Aquarius Rising!
The Full Court Press!
INDEPENDENT RADICAL LIT
HITS NORTH FLORIDA
Available now! A front line, a series of radical independently
published novels manifest by authors who are not authors in the
usual mainstream sense but populist writers in every sense and
more so writer/ readers in the best sense of a literate democracy
self- determined and embracing the drama of everyday life with
humor and insight. Unlike the rarified if not sterilized pose of
processed trust funders and manufactured professional pods of
the Corporate Academic Publishing Industry marketed out of
New York City. In stead within reach of the people right here in
St. Augustine as well as those of North Florida the underground
literary revolution breaks through the so called cultural divide in
the so called culture wars with an array of books independently
published and distributed by the Underground Literary Alliance
Press (www.ulapress.com ). Seven titles, two of which penned by
veteran underground legends of the Florida Panhandle’s Panama
City and Panacea respectively, while the others of this “first
wave” harken from cities and regions like the Southwest and
Texas, Cleveland, Virginia, the Northeast (but not necessarily
New England) and even encompass some ex-pats in Paris,
Prague, and Southeast Asia. Travelers all, especially of the
experiential mind and social consciousness.
When one connects the dots in the field of literary arts
underground culture over the past twenty years the 1990’s begin
to show forth as vital and informed, as structurally identifiable
with the 1960’s replete with “echo effects” of the mid-seventies
and somewhat beyond but including punk and new-wave (this
phrasing is used since underground tendencies in the mid to late
‘70’s though the mid 80’s, especially with the rise of rap- culture
asserting itself as the thing to be reckoned with, are more
responses than reactions to the co-option and commoditization of
what Hunter Thompson would call, “the generation of swine”.)
This response continues to this day-- the first day of the last days,
the so called “end times““, where history ends, and good
riddance-- fueled by the Marginals phenomenon and sealed by
the ‘zine revolution and DIY movements of the late ‘‘80’s and
1990’s. The real signs and profile of reaction/ ““counter-
revolution” are to be found within the temporal and
demographic limits of so called Generation X, namely the
preppies at the fore and the hipster/pods at the rear, while all
these nicely rounded- out and enabled (the reactionary that is) by
hyppie- preppie pogroms like gentrification and the more
insidious Immanent Domain (re: 1960’s “urban renewal”) and
the neo-con- neo liberal song and dance routine initiated by the
1987 bombing of Osage Ave, in Deep West Philly and caped off
by 911 and the Patriot Acts, and the cooked and anti-democratic
“new” directives and limitations of a USPS in the pocket of
Rupert Murdock and Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx.
Back on point, basically derived from this earlier preceding
“echo”” effect or, more properly, surge, or backlash, and
extending the “wave” metaphor: the oscillation whose frequency
and period is energized by a proportional increase of suppression
and assimilation on the part of reactionary forces and factors and
is best exemplified in the formulation, activity, and subsequent
“affects/ records” in the form of books, Out Your Back Door
outreach-merchandising, “zeens” and meta-zines, high profile
content qualified blogs and public and/or guerilla “action-
readings” and performances and a self- managed Main Web Site
that is steadily coming into its own as a kind of underground
“news service”, of the ULA and ULAPress.
All is given credulity by the degree and quantity and quality of
noise, buzz, rumor, and “psych-out” the ULA over the past few
years in fact ever since the Alliance’s founder-ing in Hoboken,
New Jersey, in 2000, with 4 then quickly 6 underground literary
Turks, spinning the concept, mission, and then and ever since
then implementing strategies. Taking action and advocacy, and
growing the ULA brand, while local, regional, national, and
international press and media sat up and took notice, at the same
time sending shudders through the cocktail parties and $1000-a-
plate “benefit” galas of the Publishing Monoliths and the
Granted Foundations “earning” the Systems-Establishments’ ire
and reactionary policies of dominance like “black- balling”,
exclusion and “black-listing““, smear- campaigns, censorship,
“the silent treatment”, anonymous overloading of misinformation
and defamation of the character of ULA members, writers, poets,
artists, and the ULA Press and its publisher(s) as well as the
cultural legitimacy and rightful access of all underground artists
and by association the reading/writing public. Of course these
passive-aggressive tactics on the part of the Establishment is not
unfamiliar to any outsider- writer or poet or artist who is not
merely an entertainer-- or hack, or exhibitionist completely in
denial of social/economic realities and the socially rooted nature
of creativity and artifact-- and who also has a conscience and is
simply worth their muster.
Again the ULA finds itself having to defend itself; yet a major
characteristic of the legitimacy of any seasoned Resistance is that
that Resistance never descend to the level of offensiveness of the
Oppressor in manner or behavior, and our Alliance is no
exception. We are all to a member class-acts at the same time
upfront and transparent in all dealings with “the enemy” never
hesitating to rely upon the power rather than the force of truce,
open and public discussion and debate, and cooperation but with
as little compromise as necessary, deploying, for example, the
tactic of “comparison shopping” in the hands of the literate
public by putting forth the best writing and poetry we have
available which is at least as extensive as the Mainstreams’, to
the point where we can also claim that all bets are covered in the
public forum where the best of what the other side has to peddle
is made to comply with its multi-million dollar hype. Or else we
simply concentrate on securing for the public greater access to
our books and breaking news about our crash-actions and
advocacy. Which is the primary gist of the ULAPress line of
independent books and literature.
In lieu of this negativity and opposition on the part of the Ill-
literary Establishment, best to briefly run-down chronologically
specific incidence and attending ““coverage” (the precedence
and antecedence of which to be pinned on the ULA’s
Promotional Director and provocateur KING Wenclas, an
infamous “street-fighter” and brigand beloved by the problem-
children of the underground the world over) by the mass- media
starting in 2000:
Guggenheim Grant given to Hiram “Rick” Moody, author of Ice
Storm, the millionaire son of a millionaire investment Banker
and part and parcel of the Establishment’s awarding their own
rather than following the original “mission” directives of
foundations such as the Guggenheim. 2001 escalates into a pivotal
year and a windfall year of publicity and noise as the ULA
headed up by it’s six founding members lodges a strong letter of
Protest that names names and blows the whistle on “business as
usual” with the result that articles and broadcasts concerning the
issues appear on standing Literary Blogs and papers like the
NYPress. The tensions mount especially after the ULA holds a
press conference at CBGBs with Paris Review and another
journal’s staffs which include George Plimpton and hold a group
ULA underground writers reading featuring among others
Floridian Jack Saunders, Texas legend Wild Bill Black Olive and
“’zine Elvis” Anne Sturgison at the Amato Opera House on the
Bowery in March, 2001 with the Village Voice, Shout Magazine,
Philly Weekly, the New York Post, weighing in on the excitement
generated then when around the same time the ULA crashes a n
exclusive gala event held by the staffs of various Industry big deal
glossy magazines at the KGB and again calls attention to
corruption, this time of the NEA grant panel with Rick Moody,
recently installed on its panel, clinching a sizable endowment for
fellow millionaire writer Jonathan Franzen, igniting a
resurgence in pubic outrage. Page 6, and the San Francisco
Chronicle, NY Magazine weigh in.
Early through mid 2002 the ULA defends successfully legendary
Bikini Girl zinester, Lisa Falour, an ex-pat living in Paris,
against two unscrupulous Brit publishers over the rights to her
Bizarre Life aka I Was For Sale. The book in question is still
available from Amazon.com. Publisher Jeff Potter initiates the
ULA FAN SITE. NYPost: Eggers Story Killed!, King Wenclas
sheds light on the implicit self-censorship and suppression
instigated by Dave Eggers and his apologists regarding Egger’s
skullduggery, citing the New York Post, New York Magazine, the
Atlantic, Salon.com, as real and current examples. OPEN CITY
“destroys” a situation prompted letter from Wenclas. Security
guards at the Philly Free Library remove King Wenclas and
threaten him with banishment from the Library for challenging
Rick Moody and Susan Minot in the public forum there of May
2002. Detroit’s Metro Times covers the first action-reading event
of the ULA’s National Breakout Tour. Of September 26th
featuring “the man who refuses to be edited”, Wild Bill
Blackolive, who recites from Tales Of The Texas Gang , along
with “a cast of crazies”: Michael Jackman, King Wenclas, actress
Leah Smith, and Cartoonist, Yul Tolbert, amongst others.
Alternet.org, the Boston Phoenix, Philadelphia Magazine, and
most importantly in November The Washington Post with an
article that follows up on the ULA’s lead investigates Franzen,
for and aft, then also the Melbourne “Sunday Age”, Moby Lives
weigh in on the Franzen problem. December 20th The Charlie
Rose Show interviews Jonathan Franzen. When the conflict of
interest NEA grant in question raised by the ULA is not even
mentioned nor addressed , ULA members rally on the CRS
Forums and are received and commended by loyal long standing
Forum personalities.
Then in 2003 the ULA crashes a big insider reading at the famous
Housing Works. A rumble ensues in the street with ULA actress
Leah Smith taking on OC editor biggie Tom Beller as beer
bottles and fists fly. The NYPost among other news services
skewer the facts but still help create even more buzz and noise for
the Alliance. Bully Magazine comes out for the ULA and calls for
the ULA and King Wenclas to get an award for muckraking.
In February Establishment pet, poet David Berman challenges
ULA versifiers to a poetry read off but soon backs out when the
ULA accepts. Out of the blue “the Masked Perfesser” is created
and steps up to the plate, becoming the first of the ULA’s two
guerilla- clowns. In August poets Frank Walsh and Mike Grover
drive out to Chicago for the Cullen Carter benefit at the Bull
And The Barrel Saloon at which among other events “the
Masked Perfesser” and “Mad Dog” Grover go at it in a WWF
style poetry-slam.
Bandoppler.com, The Believer, Black Book Magazine, all take
issue with the ULA as their readers would have it. Under future
ULAPress publisher Jeff Potter the ULA Zeen Shop appears
featuring house ‘zine Slush Pile which quickly gains the
stewardship of Tower Books and Records where every
subsequent issue is sold out along with many other ULA affiliated
"zeens."
An admiring Glasgow Herald touts the ULA under the headline,
“relevant literature now!”. Also in January 2004, the ULA house
blogs and Main Page Monday reports have some effect in
bringing the NYTimes Book Review Panic to a head while the hip
3AM Magazine and cultural events gazetteer samples the ULA
brand. Less than two months later Corporate darling writer and
McSweeney’s capo Dave Eggers is caught creating false
uncomplimentary reviews of the ULA and the ULAPress on
Amazon and the incident is exposed on the front page of the New
York Times. The Times article is by Amy Harmon and dated
February 14th. The Boston Globe highlights the ULA and it’s
trouble-making. The ULA East Coast Conclave takes place off of
South Street in Philadelphia’s historic Head House Square.
Members, including Mike Jackman and Jeff Potter and affiliated
small press publishers, zinesters, and artists from up and down
the East Coast and from the Mid-West attend.
NYTimes Book Reviews gives a nod in the Alliances direction
naming www.literaryrevolution.com one of the top literary web
sites in the country. Also in 2004 ULA “outreach” at Rutgers
University and Michigan State.
2005 opens with Attacking The Demi-Puppets blog investigating
Bisselgate, a linking of Harper’s Magazine to the plagiarism
scandal. House Blog ”Literary Adventures” is up and running,
Slush Pile continues to be published in and shipped out of
Thailand by ULA editor-in- chief and founding member Steve
Kostecke. The third ULA mention in less than as many years
appears in the New York Times. Also New Jersey’s Hudson
Current, the Philadelphia Current, and the Philadelphia City
Paper.
The ULA big event weekend takes place in mid June with an
action- reading that is meant to reprise the historic Beat 6
Gallery group reading in San Francisco of 1955, at the Medusa
Lounge “the best dive bar ever”, in center city Philadelphia , the
lineup highlighting the person and work of Big Jack Saunders
the most prolific most alternatively in print writer
“unpublished”” writer in the World, includes over a dozen ULA
and associated local, regional, national, underground poets and
writers who perform the following day the ULA, including
webmaster and LitVision publisher, Pat Simonelli from CA with
small press product and promo and merchandise in tow takes in
the Philadelphia Zine Fest at the Rotunda. Steve Kostecke and
Leopold McGiness hold ULA Conclave in Tokyo, Japan.
September discloses Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) and
Ruminator Magazine, with the complicity of NPR notable and
“soft” plagiarist David Sardis, publishing a fake “hate letter”
upon which ULA Promotional Dir. King Wenclas’ “signature” is
forged.
The ULA and Wenclas takes all to task.
2006 The ULA house ‘zine, Slush Pile as well as affiliated zines
from around the country continue to be stocked by and nearly
always sold out by Tower Books And Records until the company
closes its doors later in the year. A protest- reading on Broadway
at Columbia University and crash of an event and panel
discussion held in Columbia’s Miller Theater concerning the co-
opting of Allen Ginsberg’s ground breaking poem Howl by the
Academic and Industry elite is prepared for in March and
committed the same day and night of the event, including ULA
recruit Jelly- Boy the Clown taking the Miller stage and getting
into it with panelist Jason Schinder at Miller Theater in mid-
April. Initial media coverage of this ULA action consists of Frank
Walsh interview on WNYC-NPR radio, Time-out New York, The
Metro Paper, AP News Service, Poetry Foundation, and follow-
up in the form of an Associated Press News Service pod cast,
Ginsberg House website, etc.
F(irst) Independent Literary Festival, FILF/ULA rocks
Cleveland three days in early July , stretching though Cleveland
Heights, Lakeside, and the river flats, when member writer/
readers from PA, Alabama, Wisconsin, Virginia, Chicago,
Detroit, join famous local undergrounders like organizer
multimedia ULA novelist-zinester Red Fright, C. Allen Rearick,
Joe Panza, McGuane at Mac’s Backs Bookstore, Bella Dubby,
Tap room coffeeshop gallery, and with 6 or 7 back-up bands on
Saturday night at Pat’s In The Flats honky-tonk bar. Cleveland’s
bohemian hordes flock.
Cleveland Magazine, Night Life Forum, City Paper, and even
Brit neo-beat poet-blogger,
Bruce Hodder’s Suffolk Punch , amply covers.
2007. January, the ULA and its “source” proven right in its
intensive 2-year long standing investigation of CIA/ Paris Review
connection, by for one, NYTimes article.
ULA/LitVision Press and membership-distro systemic release of
Jack Saunders’’, Bukowski Never Did This (in 2006), Fred
Wright’s Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, ex-pat novelist-
provocateur, James Nolan’s, Security. Late February, ULA BIG
LIT SHOW, writers from all across America again descend on
West Philadelphia featuring read-off slam and action-reading
performance antics. On U of P’s campus, undergound at THE
UNDERGROUND ratskeller show bar with King Wenclas, Wred
Fright, Mark Sonnenfeld, Yarrow, Jessica Disobedience, The
Idiom Poets mag gang, Professor Malerkus and “The Super
Poet”, Toussant St. Negritude, Frank Walsh, et al.
The Guardian, U.K. press, claims the ULA web page and bevy of
literary and lit-crit blogs, etc. constitute one of the best three
underground literary “sites” in the US. April, the ULA and King
Wenclas reprise at the same venue as in February the BIG LIT
SHOW with the addition of a “speed Reading”” featuring
oracular poet Frank Walsh taking on ten challengers in ten
minutes total, and novelist Larry Richette, Eric Broomfield
swallowing swords and reciting his song lyrics, poets Supercam
and Dirtee Focus from the punk-rap band The Mighty Paradocs,
and Steve and Kingsley street rap-poetry.
July, the Underground Literary Tour of ULAPress published
novelists Crazy Carl Robinson and his Fat On The Vine and
Wred Fright with the PFEmus in tow, include Philly as well as
Red Emma‘s Bookstore in Baltimore, Joseph-Beth Booksellers in
Pittsburgh, Freebird Books in Brooklyn, and Quimby‘s
Bookstore in Chicago. Germ Bookstore on Frankford Avenue
hosts the tour show with electronic-music by David Talento, and
readings from Frank Walsh, Eric Broomfield, KING. Media
coverage: Phila. Weekly editor’s pick. Appearance and at and
conversation with King Wenclas on WHYY-FM NPR’s Radio
Times hosted by Marti Moss-Coane.Feature article by Brian
Rademaekers runs in all Star newspapers. Wred Fright’s Emus
book gets trumpeted in the glossy indie mag, Verbicide, then
receives the same treatment in Dig This Real indie mag.
Crazy Carl’s, Fat On The Vine gets the treatment on Chicago
based Horror/ Boxing big deal fan-sites.
On August 11th, the ULA and DeadDrunkDublin.com with Matt
Broomfield improving on keyboards, and The Idiom Magazine’s
Mark Baird, “Jellyboy””, KING, Frank Walsh and Mark
Sonnenfeld, along with The Big Art Show out of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
rant, rave and perform outdoors at the 40th Street Summer
Series sponsored by the Rotunda/Foundationarts.or and PNC
Bank-- a huge carnival of alternative arts and crafts.
A pared down but notable action-reading occurs a few blocks
away on August 13 that Kaffa’’s Crossing, East African bistro
with Jessica Disobedience in from Chicago headlining.
In the U.K., The Bookaholics Guide To Book Blogs, from Marion
Boyers Press includes a full chapter on the ULA and the
ULAPress publications.
ULA’s Frank Walsh and Eric Broomfield perform and star in the
spectacular DVD/ movie premier event at the historic burlesque-
vaudeville theater, The Trocadero, located in Philadelphia’s
“china-town”. The screening (the movie had won the best make-
up and special effects award at October’s Philly’s Horror Film
Festival) of The Unholy Sideshow, directed by new-ULAer Matt
Broomfield is part of a show that includes bands, sideshow,
burlesque and costumed freaks.
The ULAPress and publisher Jeff Potter celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s, On The Road , by matching the
1950 price of Kerouac’’s book of $3.95 with those e-books
e-published on Jeff’s service.
To see the facts between 2000 and 2008 for and against and both
reflected in the record of the Mass Media organs therein, feel
free to go to “The ULA Action” pages on the tool bar on the front
main page of literary revolution.com first and the drift
accordingly.
2008. NOTE: Collective press is first to scoop that in late summer
of 2007 the principals of the so called Philadelphia contingent of
the ULAlliance considering what at the time was the dominant if
not underhanded skullduggery of the New York publishing hose
and bookstore chain cartels supplemented by the Academic MFA
factory system with the Mainstream Lit and LitCrit power
brokers had reached the full extent of their invasive and insidious
co-option of the Philadelphia specific literary underground
“scene” in lieu of deliberate censorship, news blackout,
censorship, and attrition by force of resources mostly financial,
these Alliance principals and active members decided on a
strategic “retreat” from the underground literary scene mostly
to give that scene a chance to develop under its own steam along
lines parallel to the example and spirit of the ULA 4 year long
presence already won and in place in the Philadelphia
underground anyway.
So that the Poet and instigator/raconteur and member-distro
representative place the ULA mission and books in the
underground lit scenes and select independent bookstores of the
North Florida/ South East Region/ Gulf Coast as is for his part
and to effect the interconnectivity of general resistance and the
DIY underground arts movement here and there. While others
are about their own fields of expertise and self-management but
summarily disposed until that time otherwise circumstances
permitting.
Between the start of the year and the beginning of this June, in
order of appearance, 4 more books join the first four previous
books what publishers Jeff Potter and LitVision’s Patrick
Simonelli call the ULA’s “first line of independently published
and distributed books” which are available exclusively in St.
Augustine at LOOSE SCREWS, independent bookstore and
alternative emporium, 125b King Street. And at
COMICSANDCLASSICS, in the Wave Strip Mall, 1722 3rd
Street North, Jacksonville Beach. And exclusive for all of
Jacksonville proper, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Chamblin’s
Uptown bookstores:
The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, by Wred Fright, the first
known PhD whose doctorate thesis was on ‘zines and ‘zine
publishing. About a garage band who all happen to be house-
mates in the college town where they occasionally attend classes.
First appeared in seven parts serialized in Fred Wright’s own
‘zine.
Bukowski Never Did This, by Panama City’s own greatest
underground writer in America overall, Jack Saunders. Post-
modernism be damned, writ with the savvy that combines the
clear cut free association of common sense American modernism
with docu-realism of Mailer and Henry Miller Big Jack knew
Buk and as legend has it they went a few rounds. Instructional
manual for all subsequent undergrounders who walk the walk as
well as can talk the talk. From LitVision press.
Security, by ex-pat gonzo-writer, James Nowlan, late of Paris and
now living and working in Prague. A dark comedy of existential
proportions, featuring snake handling holy-rollers, New York
Art School postures, and most of all the despair of the French
urban wasteland and the American unemployed who guard it.
Fat On The Vine, rampant and raw and painfully hilarious by a
practitioner of ““crazy wisdom”. VirginiaTech, Wayne State,
Iowa City, no stone is left unturned . Live-journal gone wild.
None other than Crazy Carl Robinson. Transgressive in
everyway. An honest portrait of teenage angst without the angst
and without the teenager. Heart-felt and phat!
Chicanery Row, by Panacea Florida’s Mack McElderry who
John Steinbeck personally directed to create a marine biology
lab in the Panhandle for reason’s that may only be discovered in
the process of reading this novel. Unconditional free association.
The Emeryville War: A Real Deal Confederacy, by Wild Bill
Black Olive. An amazing memoir about subsisting on the fringes
of Berkley in the ‘80’s, related in highly polished and engaging
“folk- writing” from the view point of an outlaw in an abandoned
car with a typewriter and a litter pitbulls.
Wasted Angels, a gritty brass- tacks social-realistic yet oddly
touching nouvelle romaine by world- wide wayfarer, Steve
Kostecke, editor-in-chief of the Alliance, penned while teaching
in South East Asia. The hyperbolic reader will love this book if
they are into sex and death in suburban Detroit of the ‘80’s. I t
begins with the memory of a car crash that kills a teenager and
ends with an escape to freedom.
Tales From The Texas Gang, the long anticipated new edition by
the famous underground classic by Wild Bill Black Olive. Called
by rad lit-critics a “beat western” and “really great” by William
Burroughs, the novel combines the cosmic, the comic, and the
classic with ease at the same time convicting the reader of the sin
of time travel between parallel dimensions, one a quest epic set in
the sixties and seventies and the other a gang of outlaws story set
against the old west’s psycho-geography.
Between early 2006 and mid- May of this year in order “to show
the world that literature is an action packed hands on sport”, the
ULA launches and produces ( and continues to do so ), a ULA
“All Star” trading-card series. Currently fourteen in number
and counting, the colorful and provocative cards are only one
facet of ULA jazzy premiums and “merchandise” which includes
bumper sticker and baseball caps.
“Zombie movie” , side-show movie, (check out the reviews on the
popular ZombieFriends.com, etc. ) The Unholy Sideshow, DVD, a
West Philth Productions rad DIY first, directed by new active-
member Matt Broomfield, is made available by Out Your
Backdoor and the ULAPress in mid- May, 2008. Loose Screws in
St. Augustine bookstore has agreed to carry the horror,
authentic sideshow, tattoo and piercing, riddled film!
Also so far since January the adoption of a fair and pragmatic
procedure to scout, contact, and insinuate good prospects for
membership from around the USA has, by persisting under the
principals of consensus, egalitarianism, and inclusion, has
concluded with four new active members being added to the ULA
roster all of who can be found on the “Meet The ULA” page at
www.literaryrevolution.com.
With the Alliance achieving no mean notice in North East
Florida events such as The Jacksonville Irish Festival, a Lynch’s
Irish Pub reading, The Jaxbeachesartwalk, The St. Augustine
First Friday Art Walk, The Weird Film Festival of St. Augustine,
The May Days Actions and Presentations in the St. Augustine
Plaza, an action- reading with the Da Bigg Boyz band by ULA
poet FDW at the Starlite café in the Five Points Arts district, and
at the Uncommon Ground Coffee Shop and throughout the San
Marco Arts District, contact with the writers and facilitator of
the DeadPaper.org journal and readings, things are looking
good. Especially with ULA books and wares being made
available to the public at four substantial independent bookstores
in the South- East region.
Pending but soon to be realized is, as rumored, a “confession”
made by the guerilla clowns “The Masked Perfesser” and
“Jellyboy” as regards an absurd but supposedly effective
sabotage and “papering” committed against the likes of
millionaire hack and literary “over-dog” Hiram “Rick” Moody
III, at the University of Penna.’s WXPN World Café in
Philadelphia, back on May 17th, 2007. Stay tuned! And
remember the Underground Literary Alliance is for the people’s,
of the people’s, and all about the people’s literature and poetry!
And frequent and support all your independent bookstores first
and foremost Loose Screws.
Notes/Credits:
Parts of this Monday Report as the subtitle indicates will appear as
an article in the underground alternative tabloid, The Collective
Press, published and distributed out of St. Augustine Fl., this June.
AQUARIUS RISING (which this essay appears as a part of the
concept of) is a catch phrase used to illuminate the current crisis
situation, with emphasis on the culture and then that of literature
as the most representative of this, that attempts to extrapolate and
"locate" pluperfect future fact and you can quote me: " The fall
of a world dominated by the Economy is to be replaced by a world
re-created by Creativity."
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Frank Walsh is a ULA poet and wild man. Contact him.
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Available now! A front line, a series of radical independently
published novels manifest by authors who are not authors in the
usual mainstream sense but populist writers in every sense and
more so writer/ readers in the best sense of a literate democracy
self- determined and embracing the drama of everyday life with
humor and insight. Unlike the rarified if not sterilized pose of
processed trust funders and manufactured professional pods of
the Corporate Academic Publishing Industry marketed out of
New York City. In stead within reach of the people right here in
St. Augustine as well as those of North Florida the underground
literary revolution breaks through the so called cultural divide in
the so called culture wars with an array of books independently
published and distributed by the Underground Literary Alliance
Press (www.ulapress.com ). Seven titles, two of which penned by
veteran underground legends of the Florida Panhandle’s Panama
City and Panacea respectively, while the others of this “first
wave” harken from cities and regions like the Southwest and
Texas, Cleveland, Virginia, the Northeast (but not necessarily
New England) and even encompass some ex-pats in Paris,
Prague, and Southeast Asia. Travelers all, especially of the
experiential mind and social consciousness.
When one connects the dots in the field of literary arts
underground culture over the past twenty years the 1990’s begin
to show forth as vital and informed, as structurally identifiable
with the 1960’s replete with “echo effects” of the mid-seventies
and somewhat beyond but including punk and new-wave (this
phrasing is used since underground tendencies in the mid to late
‘70’s though the mid 80’s, especially with the rise of rap- culture
asserting itself as the thing to be reckoned with, are more
responses than reactions to the co-option and commoditization of
what Hunter Thompson would call, “the generation of swine”.)
This response continues to this day-- the first day of the last days,
the so called “end times““, where history ends, and good
riddance-- fueled by the Marginals phenomenon and sealed by
the ‘zine revolution and DIY movements of the late ‘‘80’s and
1990’s. The real signs and profile of reaction/ ““counter-
revolution” are to be found within the temporal and
demographic limits of so called Generation X, namely the
preppies at the fore and the hipster/pods at the rear, while all
these nicely rounded- out and enabled (the reactionary that is) by
hyppie- preppie pogroms like gentrification and the more
insidious Immanent Domain (re: 1960’s “urban renewal”) and
the neo-con- neo liberal song and dance routine initiated by the
1987 bombing of Osage Ave, in Deep West Philly and caped off
by 911 and the Patriot Acts, and the cooked and anti-democratic
“new” directives and limitations of a USPS in the pocket of
Rupert Murdock and Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx.
Back on point, basically derived from this earlier preceding
“echo”” effect or, more properly, surge, or backlash, and
extending the “wave” metaphor: the oscillation whose frequency
and period is energized by a proportional increase of suppression
and assimilation on the part of reactionary forces and factors and
is best exemplified in the formulation, activity, and subsequent
“affects/ records” in the form of books, Out Your Back Door
outreach-merchandising, “zeens” and meta-zines, high profile
content qualified blogs and public and/or guerilla “action-
readings” and performances and a self- managed Main Web Site
that is steadily coming into its own as a kind of underground
“news service”, of the ULA and ULAPress.
All is given credulity by the degree and quantity and quality of
noise, buzz, rumor, and “psych-out” the ULA over the past few
years in fact ever since the Alliance’s founder-ing in Hoboken,
New Jersey, in 2000, with 4 then quickly 6 underground literary
Turks, spinning the concept, mission, and then and ever since
then implementing strategies. Taking action and advocacy, and
growing the ULA brand, while local, regional, national, and
international press and media sat up and took notice, at the same
time sending shudders through the cocktail parties and $1000-a-
plate “benefit” galas of the Publishing Monoliths and the
Granted Foundations “earning” the Systems-Establishments’ ire
and reactionary policies of dominance like “black- balling”,
exclusion and “black-listing““, smear- campaigns, censorship,
“the silent treatment”, anonymous overloading of misinformation
and defamation of the character of ULA members, writers, poets,
artists, and the ULA Press and its publisher(s) as well as the
cultural legitimacy and rightful access of all underground artists
and by association the reading/writing public. Of course these
passive-aggressive tactics on the part of the Establishment is not
unfamiliar to any outsider- writer or poet or artist who is not
merely an entertainer-- or hack, or exhibitionist completely in
denial of social/economic realities and the socially rooted nature
of creativity and artifact-- and who also has a conscience and is
simply worth their muster.
Again the ULA finds itself having to defend itself; yet a major
characteristic of the legitimacy of any seasoned Resistance is that
that Resistance never descend to the level of offensiveness of the
Oppressor in manner or behavior, and our Alliance is no
exception. We are all to a member class-acts at the same time
upfront and transparent in all dealings with “the enemy” never
hesitating to rely upon the power rather than the force of truce,
open and public discussion and debate, and cooperation but with
as little compromise as necessary, deploying, for example, the
tactic of “comparison shopping” in the hands of the literate
public by putting forth the best writing and poetry we have
available which is at least as extensive as the Mainstreams’, to
the point where we can also claim that all bets are covered in the
public forum where the best of what the other side has to peddle
is made to comply with its multi-million dollar hype. Or else we
simply concentrate on securing for the public greater access to
our books and breaking news about our crash-actions and
advocacy. Which is the primary gist of the ULAPress line of
independent books and literature.
In lieu of this negativity and opposition on the part of the Ill-
literary Establishment, best to briefly run-down chronologically
specific incidence and attending ““coverage” (the precedence
and antecedence of which to be pinned on the ULA’s
Promotional Director and provocateur KING Wenclas, an
infamous “street-fighter” and brigand beloved by the problem-
children of the underground the world over) by the mass- media
starting in 2000:
Guggenheim Grant given to Hiram “Rick” Moody, author of Ice
Storm, the millionaire son of a millionaire investment Banker
and part and parcel of the Establishment’s awarding their own
rather than following the original “mission” directives of
foundations such as the Guggenheim. 2001 escalates into a pivotal
year and a windfall year of publicity and noise as the ULA
headed up by it’s six founding members lodges a strong letter of
Protest that names names and blows the whistle on “business as
usual” with the result that articles and broadcasts concerning the
issues appear on standing Literary Blogs and papers like the
NYPress. The tensions mount especially after the ULA holds a
press conference at CBGBs with Paris Review and another
journal’s staffs which include George Plimpton and hold a group
ULA underground writers reading featuring among others
Floridian Jack Saunders, Texas legend Wild Bill Black Olive and
“’zine Elvis” Anne Sturgison at the Amato Opera House on the
Bowery in March, 2001 with the Village Voice, Shout Magazine,
Philly Weekly, the New York Post, weighing in on the excitement
generated then when around the same time the ULA crashes a n
exclusive gala event held by the staffs of various Industry big deal
glossy magazines at the KGB and again calls attention to
corruption, this time of the NEA grant panel with Rick Moody,
recently installed on its panel, clinching a sizable endowment for
fellow millionaire writer Jonathan Franzen, igniting a
resurgence in pubic outrage. Page 6, and the San Francisco
Chronicle, NY Magazine weigh in.
Early through mid 2002 the ULA defends successfully legendary
Bikini Girl zinester, Lisa Falour, an ex-pat living in Paris,
against two unscrupulous Brit publishers over the rights to her
Bizarre Life aka I Was For Sale. The book in question is still
available from Amazon.com. Publisher Jeff Potter initiates the
ULA FAN SITE. NYPost: Eggers Story Killed!, King Wenclas
sheds light on the implicit self-censorship and suppression
instigated by Dave Eggers and his apologists regarding Egger’s
skullduggery, citing the New York Post, New York Magazine, the
Atlantic, Salon.com, as real and current examples. OPEN CITY
“destroys” a situation prompted letter from Wenclas. Security
guards at the Philly Free Library remove King Wenclas and
threaten him with banishment from the Library for challenging
Rick Moody and Susan Minot in the public forum there of May
2002. Detroit’s Metro Times covers the first action-reading event
of the ULA’s National Breakout Tour. Of September 26th
featuring “the man who refuses to be edited”, Wild Bill
Blackolive, who recites from Tales Of The Texas Gang , along
with “a cast of crazies”: Michael Jackman, King Wenclas, actress
Leah Smith, and Cartoonist, Yul Tolbert, amongst others.
Alternet.org, the Boston Phoenix, Philadelphia Magazine, and
most importantly in November The Washington Post with an
article that follows up on the ULA’s lead investigates Franzen,
for and aft, then also the Melbourne “Sunday Age”, Moby Lives
weigh in on the Franzen problem. December 20th The Charlie
Rose Show interviews Jonathan Franzen. When the conflict of
interest NEA grant in question raised by the ULA is not even
mentioned nor addressed , ULA members rally on the CRS
Forums and are received and commended by loyal long standing
Forum personalities.
Then in 2003 the ULA crashes a big insider reading at the famous
Housing Works. A rumble ensues in the street with ULA actress
Leah Smith taking on OC editor biggie Tom Beller as beer
bottles and fists fly. The NYPost among other news services
skewer the facts but still help create even more buzz and noise for
the Alliance. Bully Magazine comes out for the ULA and calls for
the ULA and King Wenclas to get an award for muckraking.
In February Establishment pet, poet David Berman challenges
ULA versifiers to a poetry read off but soon backs out when the
ULA accepts. Out of the blue “the Masked Perfesser” is created
and steps up to the plate, becoming the first of the ULA’s two
guerilla- clowns. In August poets Frank Walsh and Mike Grover
drive out to Chicago for the Cullen Carter benefit at the Bull
And The Barrel Saloon at which among other events “the
Masked Perfesser” and “Mad Dog” Grover go at it in a WWF
style poetry-slam.
Bandoppler.com, The Believer, Black Book Magazine, all take
issue with the ULA as their readers would have it. Under future
ULAPress publisher Jeff Potter the ULA Zeen Shop appears
featuring house ‘zine Slush Pile which quickly gains the
stewardship of Tower Books and Records where every
subsequent issue is sold out along with many other ULA affiliated
"zeens."
An admiring Glasgow Herald touts the ULA under the headline,
“relevant literature now!”. Also in January 2004, the ULA house
blogs and Main Page Monday reports have some effect in
bringing the NYTimes Book Review Panic to a head while the hip
3AM Magazine and cultural events gazetteer samples the ULA
brand. Less than two months later Corporate darling writer and
McSweeney’s capo Dave Eggers is caught creating false
uncomplimentary reviews of the ULA and the ULAPress on
Amazon and the incident is exposed on the front page of the New
York Times. The Times article is by Amy Harmon and dated
February 14th. The Boston Globe highlights the ULA and it’s
trouble-making. The ULA East Coast Conclave takes place off of
South Street in Philadelphia’s historic Head House Square.
Members, including Mike Jackman and Jeff Potter and affiliated
small press publishers, zinesters, and artists from up and down
the East Coast and from the Mid-West attend.
NYTimes Book Reviews gives a nod in the Alliances direction
naming www.literaryrevolution.com one of the top literary web
sites in the country. Also in 2004 ULA “outreach” at Rutgers
University and Michigan State.
2005 opens with Attacking The Demi-Puppets blog investigating
Bisselgate, a linking of Harper’s Magazine to the plagiarism
scandal. House Blog ”Literary Adventures” is up and running,
Slush Pile continues to be published in and shipped out of
Thailand by ULA editor-in- chief and founding member Steve
Kostecke. The third ULA mention in less than as many years
appears in the New York Times. Also New Jersey’s Hudson
Current, the Philadelphia Current, and the Philadelphia City
Paper.
The ULA big event weekend takes place in mid June with an
action- reading that is meant to reprise the historic Beat 6
Gallery group reading in San Francisco of 1955, at the Medusa
Lounge “the best dive bar ever”, in center city Philadelphia , the
lineup highlighting the person and work of Big Jack Saunders
the most prolific most alternatively in print writer
“unpublished”” writer in the World, includes over a dozen ULA
and associated local, regional, national, underground poets and
writers who perform the following day the ULA, including
webmaster and LitVision publisher, Pat Simonelli from CA with
small press product and promo and merchandise in tow takes in
the Philadelphia Zine Fest at the Rotunda. Steve Kostecke and
Leopold McGiness hold ULA Conclave in Tokyo, Japan.
September discloses Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) and
Ruminator Magazine, with the complicity of NPR notable and
“soft” plagiarist David Sardis, publishing a fake “hate letter”
upon which ULA Promotional Dir. King Wenclas’ “signature” is
forged.
The ULA and Wenclas takes all to task.
2006 The ULA house ‘zine, Slush Pile as well as affiliated zines
from around the country continue to be stocked by and nearly
always sold out by Tower Books And Records until the company
closes its doors later in the year. A protest- reading on Broadway
at Columbia University and crash of an event and panel
discussion held in Columbia’s Miller Theater concerning the co-
opting of Allen Ginsberg’s ground breaking poem Howl by the
Academic and Industry elite is prepared for in March and
committed the same day and night of the event, including ULA
recruit Jelly- Boy the Clown taking the Miller stage and getting
into it with panelist Jason Schinder at Miller Theater in mid-
April. Initial media coverage of this ULA action consists of Frank
Walsh interview on WNYC-NPR radio, Time-out New York, The
Metro Paper, AP News Service, Poetry Foundation, and follow-
up in the form of an Associated Press News Service pod cast,
Ginsberg House website, etc.
F(irst) Independent Literary Festival, FILF/ULA rocks
Cleveland three days in early July , stretching though Cleveland
Heights, Lakeside, and the river flats, when member writer/
readers from PA, Alabama, Wisconsin, Virginia, Chicago,
Detroit, join famous local undergrounders like organizer
multimedia ULA novelist-zinester Red Fright, C. Allen Rearick,
Joe Panza, McGuane at Mac’s Backs Bookstore, Bella Dubby,
Tap room coffeeshop gallery, and with 6 or 7 back-up bands on
Saturday night at Pat’s In The Flats honky-tonk bar. Cleveland’s
bohemian hordes flock.
Cleveland Magazine, Night Life Forum, City Paper, and even
Brit neo-beat poet-blogger,
Bruce Hodder’s Suffolk Punch , amply covers.
2007. January, the ULA and its “source” proven right in its
intensive 2-year long standing investigation of CIA/ Paris Review
connection, by for one, NYTimes article.
ULA/LitVision Press and membership-distro systemic release of
Jack Saunders’’, Bukowski Never Did This (in 2006), Fred
Wright’s Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, ex-pat novelist-
provocateur, James Nolan’s, Security. Late February, ULA BIG
LIT SHOW, writers from all across America again descend on
West Philadelphia featuring read-off slam and action-reading
performance antics. On U of P’s campus, undergound at THE
UNDERGROUND ratskeller show bar with King Wenclas, Wred
Fright, Mark Sonnenfeld, Yarrow, Jessica Disobedience, The
Idiom Poets mag gang, Professor Malerkus and “The Super
Poet”, Toussant St. Negritude, Frank Walsh, et al.
The Guardian, U.K. press, claims the ULA web page and bevy of
literary and lit-crit blogs, etc. constitute one of the best three
underground literary “sites” in the US. April, the ULA and King
Wenclas reprise at the same venue as in February the BIG LIT
SHOW with the addition of a “speed Reading”” featuring
oracular poet Frank Walsh taking on ten challengers in ten
minutes total, and novelist Larry Richette, Eric Broomfield
swallowing swords and reciting his song lyrics, poets Supercam
and Dirtee Focus from the punk-rap band The Mighty Paradocs,
and Steve and Kingsley street rap-poetry.
July, the Underground Literary Tour of ULAPress published
novelists Crazy Carl Robinson and his Fat On The Vine and
Wred Fright with the PFEmus in tow, include Philly as well as
Red Emma‘s Bookstore in Baltimore, Joseph-Beth Booksellers in
Pittsburgh, Freebird Books in Brooklyn, and Quimby‘s
Bookstore in Chicago. Germ Bookstore on Frankford Avenue
hosts the tour show with electronic-music by David Talento, and
readings from Frank Walsh, Eric Broomfield, KING. Media
coverage: Phila. Weekly editor’s pick. Appearance and at and
conversation with King Wenclas on WHYY-FM NPR’s Radio
Times hosted by Marti Moss-Coane.Feature article by Brian
Rademaekers runs in all Star newspapers. Wred Fright’s Emus
book gets trumpeted in the glossy indie mag, Verbicide, then
receives the same treatment in Dig This Real indie mag.
Crazy Carl’s, Fat On The Vine gets the treatment on Chicago
based Horror/ Boxing big deal fan-sites.
On August 11th, the ULA and DeadDrunkDublin.com with Matt
Broomfield improving on keyboards, and The Idiom Magazine’s
Mark Baird, “Jellyboy””, KING, Frank Walsh and Mark
Sonnenfeld, along with The Big Art Show out of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
rant, rave and perform outdoors at the 40th Street Summer
Series sponsored by the Rotunda/Foundationarts.or and PNC
Bank-- a huge carnival of alternative arts and crafts.
A pared down but notable action-reading occurs a few blocks
away on August 13 that Kaffa’’s Crossing, East African bistro
with Jessica Disobedience in from Chicago headlining.
In the U.K., The Bookaholics Guide To Book Blogs, from Marion
Boyers Press includes a full chapter on the ULA and the
ULAPress publications.
ULA’s Frank Walsh and Eric Broomfield perform and star in the
spectacular DVD/ movie premier event at the historic burlesque-
vaudeville theater, The Trocadero, located in Philadelphia’s
“china-town”. The screening (the movie had won the best make-
up and special effects award at October’s Philly’s Horror Film
Festival) of The Unholy Sideshow, directed by new-ULAer Matt
Broomfield is part of a show that includes bands, sideshow,
burlesque and costumed freaks.
The ULAPress and publisher Jeff Potter celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s, On The Road , by matching the
1950 price of Kerouac’’s book of $3.95 with those e-books
e-published on Jeff’s service.
To see the facts between 2000 and 2008 for and against and both
reflected in the record of the Mass Media organs therein, feel
free to go to “The ULA Action” pages on the tool bar on the front
main page of literary revolution.com first and the drift
accordingly.
2008. NOTE: Collective press is first to scoop that in late summer
of 2007 the principals of the so called Philadelphia contingent of
the ULAlliance considering what at the time was the dominant if
not underhanded skullduggery of the New York publishing hose
and bookstore chain cartels supplemented by the Academic MFA
factory system with the Mainstream Lit and LitCrit power
brokers had reached the full extent of their invasive and insidious
co-option of the Philadelphia specific literary underground
“scene” in lieu of deliberate censorship, news blackout,
censorship, and attrition by force of resources mostly financial,
these Alliance principals and active members decided on a
strategic “retreat” from the underground literary scene mostly
to give that scene a chance to develop under its own steam along
lines parallel to the example and spirit of the ULA 4 year long
presence already won and in place in the Philadelphia
underground anyway.
So that the Poet and instigator/raconteur and member-distro
representative place the ULA mission and books in the
underground lit scenes and select independent bookstores of the
North Florida/ South East Region/ Gulf Coast as is for his part
and to effect the interconnectivity of general resistance and the
DIY underground arts movement here and there. While others
are about their own fields of expertise and self-management but
summarily disposed until that time otherwise circumstances
permitting.
Between the start of the year and the beginning of this June, in
order of appearance, 4 more books join the first four previous
books what publishers Jeff Potter and LitVision’s Patrick
Simonelli call the ULA’s “first line of independently published
and distributed books” which are available exclusively in St.
Augustine at LOOSE SCREWS, independent bookstore and
alternative emporium, 125b King Street. And at
COMICSANDCLASSICS, in the Wave Strip Mall, 1722 3rd
Street North, Jacksonville Beach. And exclusive for all of
Jacksonville proper, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Chamblin’s
Uptown bookstores:
The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, by Wred Fright, the first
known PhD whose doctorate thesis was on ‘zines and ‘zine
publishing. About a garage band who all happen to be house-
mates in the college town where they occasionally attend classes.
First appeared in seven parts serialized in Fred Wright’s own
‘zine.
Bukowski Never Did This, by Panama City’s own greatest
underground writer in America overall, Jack Saunders. Post-
modernism be damned, writ with the savvy that combines the
clear cut free association of common sense American modernism
with docu-realism of Mailer and Henry Miller Big Jack knew
Buk and as legend has it they went a few rounds. Instructional
manual for all subsequent undergrounders who walk the walk as
well as can talk the talk. From LitVision press.
Security, by ex-pat gonzo-writer, James Nowlan, late of Paris and
now living and working in Prague. A dark comedy of existential
proportions, featuring snake handling holy-rollers, New York
Art School postures, and most of all the despair of the French
urban wasteland and the American unemployed who guard it.
Fat On The Vine, rampant and raw and painfully hilarious by a
practitioner of ““crazy wisdom”. VirginiaTech, Wayne State,
Iowa City, no stone is left unturned . Live-journal gone wild.
None other than Crazy Carl Robinson. Transgressive in
everyway. An honest portrait of teenage angst without the angst
and without the teenager. Heart-felt and phat!
Chicanery Row, by Panacea Florida’s Mack McElderry who
John Steinbeck personally directed to create a marine biology
lab in the Panhandle for reason’s that may only be discovered in
the process of reading this novel. Unconditional free association.
The Emeryville War: A Real Deal Confederacy, by Wild Bill
Black Olive. An amazing memoir about subsisting on the fringes
of Berkley in the ‘80’s, related in highly polished and engaging
“folk- writing” from the view point of an outlaw in an abandoned
car with a typewriter and a litter pitbulls.
Wasted Angels, a gritty brass- tacks social-realistic yet oddly
touching nouvelle romaine by world- wide wayfarer, Steve
Kostecke, editor-in-chief of the Alliance, penned while teaching
in South East Asia. The hyperbolic reader will love this book if
they are into sex and death in suburban Detroit of the ‘80’s. I t
begins with the memory of a car crash that kills a teenager and
ends with an escape to freedom.
Tales From The Texas Gang, the long anticipated new edition by
the famous underground classic by Wild Bill Black Olive. Called
by rad lit-critics a “beat western” and “really great” by William
Burroughs, the novel combines the cosmic, the comic, and the
classic with ease at the same time convicting the reader of the sin
of time travel between parallel dimensions, one a quest epic set in
the sixties and seventies and the other a gang of outlaws story set
against the old west’s psycho-geography.
Between early 2006 and mid- May of this year in order “to show
the world that literature is an action packed hands on sport”, the
ULA launches and produces ( and continues to do so ), a ULA
“All Star” trading-card series. Currently fourteen in number
and counting, the colorful and provocative cards are only one
facet of ULA jazzy premiums and “merchandise” which includes
bumper sticker and baseball caps.
“Zombie movie” , side-show movie, (check out the reviews on the
popular ZombieFriends.com, etc. ) The Unholy Sideshow, DVD, a
West Philth Productions rad DIY first, directed by new active-
member Matt Broomfield, is made available by Out Your
Backdoor and the ULAPress in mid- May, 2008. Loose Screws in
St. Augustine bookstore has agreed to carry the horror,
authentic sideshow, tattoo and piercing, riddled film!
Also so far since January the adoption of a fair and pragmatic
procedure to scout, contact, and insinuate good prospects for
membership from around the USA has, by persisting under the
principals of consensus, egalitarianism, and inclusion, has
concluded with four new active members being added to the ULA
roster all of who can be found on the “Meet The ULA” page at
www.literaryrevolution.com.
With the Alliance achieving no mean notice in North East
Florida events such as The Jacksonville Irish Festival, a Lynch’s
Irish Pub reading, The Jaxbeachesartwalk, The St. Augustine
First Friday Art Walk, The Weird Film Festival of St. Augustine,
The May Days Actions and Presentations in the St. Augustine
Plaza, an action- reading with the Da Bigg Boyz band by ULA
poet FDW at the Starlite café in the Five Points Arts district, and
at the Uncommon Ground Coffee Shop and throughout the San
Marco Arts District, contact with the writers and facilitator of
the DeadPaper.org journal and readings, things are looking
good. Especially with ULA books and wares being made
available to the public at four substantial independent bookstores
in the South- East region.
Pending but soon to be realized is, as rumored, a “confession”
made by the guerilla clowns “The Masked Perfesser” and
“Jellyboy” as regards an absurd but supposedly effective
sabotage and “papering” committed against the likes of
millionaire hack and literary “over-dog” Hiram “Rick” Moody
III, at the University of Penna.’s WXPN World Café in
Philadelphia, back on May 17th, 2007. Stay tuned! And
remember the Underground Literary Alliance is for the people’s,
of the people’s, and all about the people’s literature and poetry!
And frequent and support all your independent bookstores first
and foremost Loose Screws.
Notes/Credits:
Parts of this Monday Report as the subtitle indicates will appear as
an article in the underground alternative tabloid, The Collective
Press, published and distributed out of St. Augustine Fl., this June.
AQUARIUS RISING (which this essay appears as a part of the
concept of) is a catch phrase used to illuminate the current crisis
situation, with emphasis on the culture and then that of literature
as the most representative of this, that attempts to extrapolate and
"locate" pluperfect future fact and you can quote me: " The fall
of a world dominated by the Economy is to be replaced by a world
re-created by Creativity."
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Frank Walsh is a ULA poet and wild man. Contact him.
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