FLYMF alum J.D. Smith has a nice short poem, “Of a Saturday,” in the New Verse News.
J.D.’s stories for FLYMF included The Great Tuvalu Liquidation Sale, My Fetishist Things and As a Matter of Fact, I Am the Person You Have to Blow to Get a Table Around Here. You can follow all of J.D.’s updates on his blog, Smitroverse.
FLYMF alum J.D. Smith has a short, thoughtful piece in Orion magazine on “The Place Where You Live” (in his case, Washington D.C.).
J.D.’s stories for FLYMF included The Great Tuvalu Liquidation Sale, My Fetishist Things and As a Matter of Fact, I Am the Person You Have to Blow to Get a Table Around Here. You can follow all of J.D.’s updates on his blog, Smitroverse.
Isn’t this just how you knew Mitt Romney talked about “the help” when none of us were around?
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.
Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume 1 offers hilarious bits of absurd humor doled out in two-three page bursts. Kupperman is an adept visual mimic, skilled at turning out the heavy-lined styles of old woodblock prints and over-the-top ads that used to promise hidden knowledge in Bronze Age comic books.
His sense of humor is fine too, wry, conceptual and always subverting the authority of the visuals that inspired him. John Hodgman is a good comparison. If you don’t find a quick hidden history of Sex Blimps and Sex Holes to be promising (because of a loophole, it turns out the flesh trade is legal 10 feet above or below the ground), this may not be for you.
The last volume of the four seems to lose a little inspiration; several of the gags seem like retreads of better, earlier offerings. But it’s still good for a lot of laughs.
FLYMF alum Zachary Locklin has two albums of solo ambient music available for free download on bandcamp under the name St. Heron: Thick as a Wren’s Bone and Junky Buildings. Check them out!
Zach’s story I Am A Conservationist appeared in FLYMF’s Greatest Hits. He also wrote America, The Suck Fest and A Disgrace To The Gothic Establishment.