From Blaise Larmee: Hall Hassi made a minicomic version of Kramer’s Ergot 7, which she calls her ‘ke7 zine.’ The new size is only 5.5 x 8.5 inches. It’s 96 xeroxed pages, really pushing the limit of the saddlestich binding but still holding together, and exactly like the original with some minor (I...

Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano, and Richard Bishop live at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle (photo by Joe Mabel)

Floating World Comics is proud to offer original artwork by Al Columbia.��� Every week or so we plan on making a new piece available for sale.��� We’re down to the last dozen copies of the limited edition ‘TOYLAND’ giclee print.��� Be sure to order one before they’re all gone!��� Also we want to remind you [...]

“one for jack” jack rose was one of those guys with whom one feels an immediate bond he wasn’t a physical giant or anything but he had an immense presence something, perhaps, more spectral than tangible which filled a room easily enveloping you in a kind of bear hug that could seem either threatening or comforting depending on the look in jack’s eyes and on [...]

The Smashing Pumpkins have released the first track from the band’s upcoming “album,” Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, which will span 44 songs over the course of 11 (!) discs. “A Song for a Son” finds front man Billy Corgan crooning and snarling over piano, guitars, and 19 year-old Mike Byrne’s...

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The three women in front of me were talking about the big demi-anniversary sale at Walmart and how they’d gotten time off from their cleaning jobs and were going down together. “Is it that big?” I asked. “Oh yeah,” they said, “50% off all children’s clothes, shoes and school supplies.” Everything...

DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator. DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU. FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.������ TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY. ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY… 1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the...

Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of the seminal Irish folk band the Clancy Brothers, died on Friday at a Cork hospital at age 74. The balladeer, who Bob Dylan described as “the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my life,” suffered from incurable pulmonary fibrosis (which also afflicted his...