Places We’ve Known
By the Editor
EAP’s contributors went wide with this one. There are the concrete descriptions. Brian Griffith takes us to Mama Ndolo’s latrine, and then to a bus station in Sri Lanka. John Ross kindly lets us reprint an earlier article of his on newspapers. BJ Beauchamp sweetly goes on the road. Kid Carpet’s lyrics this month are about the dole office (“all the people sitting behind the desks are fat/all the people standing front of the desks are thin”). Hunt N. Peck’s pirates go to Liverpool, of all places. And Bob’s Photo Gallery takes us to the San Francisco sewage treatment plant (tours come with donuts).
Then there’s the metaphoric. Ralph Dartford on Middle England, Mat Capper on the horrid place of Free Floating Anxiety, and (my personal favorite this month) David Horowitz on the place where you try to sell poetry in a culture where poetry matters not one economic whit.
The Bill the Cat controversy continues to create uproar in the Fictional Characters Working Group, though Wendy clearly is trying to restrain her impatience with what she thinks is a distraction from the main event…Well. They’ll work it out.
Welcome back.
(The EAP magazine will be on hiatus for the next two months, June and July. I’ll still make occasional additions to the Todblog and Jam Today, though, as well as updates on EAP’s first two books, THE SUPERGIRLS: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of the Comic Book Heroine, by Mike Madrid , and JAM TODAY: A Diary of Cooking With What You’ve Got, by me…both are coming out in September, and you can preorder them on Amazon for a terrific discount, too. If you want an EAP catalog, listing all three books we’re publishing this year, just email us at info@exterminatingangel.com, and one will wing your way.
Meantime, the whole magazine will be back in August…and we’ll look forward to seeing you then…)