mOnocle-Lash at the Blacksburg Book, Art, & Zine Fair

I'm overwhelmed with schoolwork, but somehow made it out to the Blacksburg Book, Art, and Zine Fair this weekend on Dec. 14, with both Monocle-Lash Anti-Press and the CHS Zine Club. It was a great event as always, though the timing was rather tragic since it was during the school play and right before exams, so students and faculty alike are run ragged and behind on everything; so I and the zine fest representatives (only two could make it, one an alumnus) were pretty exhausted. Lots of long conversations with returning tablers from last year, people I know through the underground or from repeat visits to this event each year, and interesting new people. Distributed roughly 50-60 books.

 

Of all the zine fests I've attended, this one hands-down wins the prize for most animal-parts! Lots of jewelry made (by multiple craftspeople) from taxidermied roadkill, and a full coyote pelt. I wasn't traded any bones for zines this year, as I have in the past, though.

 

I've included a photo of the mOnocle-Lash table getting set up, since I'm aware that people other than me like photos...

Support via Patreon

 Congratulations, you now have an opportunity to support mOnocle-Lash, Avalon Minor, and my continuing to live in my house, with a monthly donation of anywhere from $3 to $32 month via Patreon, which will nab you an ascending list of goodies ranging from a monthly limited-edition mOnocle-Lash postcard to subscriptions to periodicals & series, up to a full subscription to everything I publish!

 

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The addition of patreon as one way to support my work DOES NOT represent a move away from the "sustainable loss", gift- and trade-based ethic of the press; nor am I bedazzled by patreon's rhetoric about building a template-based "community of patrons". Rather, it's meant to be 1.) an extension of the "sustainable loss model" by making it easier for some people who are willing and able to donate a small (or otherwise) amount on a regular basis to help with facilities costs – i.e., keeping m-Lash and I housed; and 2.) A way to do something akin to subscriptions, in a situation where it's impossible to ensure a regular publication schedule on anything.

 

mOnocle-Lash will always be dedicated to gift & trade; this patreon account is just intended as one possible way for the mOnocle-Lash community to participate in that ethic by regular gifts that will directly or indirectly help this model to continue. Subscribers will still receive gifts beyond what is enumerated here, as gestures of friendship, and will still be invited to trade for other stuff as always, in addition to the pamphlets etc. offered for the various levels of support; in fact, they will receive them more regularly than otherwise. (At the same time, those who do NOT donate will still continue to be receive gifts and trades, on the same scale as they already are. The donations from those who are able, help to circulate books, ideas, and idle or savage dreams among us all.)

 

If you're in a position to, and find it worth it to toss a few dollars a month in, please check this out. Thanks!

Recent Publications on Revenant Editions

I've had my hands in a number of Revenant Editions publications lately as editor and translator. Click on  the links for more info and/or to buy (email me about trades):

• Philothée O’Neddy, The Phalanxes of Babel: Selected Texts from an Outlaw of Thought, 1829-1846. trans. O. Lindsann. A big chapbook of poems by the Bouzingo co-founder; his first book of poems ever to appear in English!

• Revenant ReIssues #2: Proverb, ed. Paul Eluard. trans. O. Lindsann. An exact-as-possible translated 1923 issue of of the Paris Dada pamphlet-magazine!
• Revenant Forgotten Avant-Gardist Series Pamphlet #10: Léocadie Penquer, Paradise Rediscovered: Poem from the Source. trans. O. Lindsann. A Subversive re-vision of the Garden of Eden, by the forgotten female Parnassian poet.
• Revenant Forgotten Avant-Gardist Series Pamphlet #11-12: Laurent Tailhade, The Magistrate’s Douche Ascendant: Three Splenetic Sonnets, trans. O. Lindsann. Anarcho-Symbolist poems uncompromising in their satirical grotesqueness, social rage, and formal complexity.
• Revenant Anti-Bio #16: The Mapah Ganneau, Feminist Prophet of the Evadamist Revolution.
  

Also, there are these two pseudonymous pamphlets. I mean, nobody can say who wrote the, who knows, but...

• Professor Aristotle, Y’Whirl the Bookends Cycle of Pee, Do Ya?. A truly TLPee, or Tackly Little Pamphlet.
• Champ McQuiggles, Good Stories That Are In a Book (is what this book is). It’s all right there in the title, folks. Zine titles can’t lie.

Too-Late Update: AfterMAF 2024 Performances

Although the actual CV that occupies most of this site is kept pretty well up to date (always within a month or less), I'm terrible at posting blog updates. Here's another sporadic attempt to catch up – I'll back up a little over a month and start with this year's AfterMAF Festival in June, which I co-organised with Ralph Eaton & where I performed a ton in various collaborative and solo situations. (That's my flyer too.) I'll just paste in the relevant section from the "Performances" tab, with links to video documentation of each piece. (Incidentally, I'm behind on embedding videos in the "Video Documentation" tab, but there are links embedded in the actual event entries in the Performance tab, when available.)

• Olcha Bong. Performed from "Sheen" , "truction grash" ,  "Théâtre of Operation"  & "Big Drums" with free improv group Elka Bong. AfterMAF  Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA. June 29, 2024. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 29, 2024.  
• Text & Noise Poetry. Performed set incorporating noise-poetry and textual poems "Toucan't Cancan" , "The Fin-Raft's Last Dentist" , "Jour of em nation" , "Sprung Song" , "Waste-Digging Songe" & "Course  of  Thot h". AfterMAF  Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA. June 29, 2024. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 29, 2024.  
• Improvisation with Big Sphinx. Performed improvised noise set with Big Sphinx (Tom Law). AfterMAF  Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA. June 29, 2024. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 29, 2024. 
  
• Conversation Piece. Performed score by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE w/Wilheim Katastrof. AfterMAF  Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA. June 29, 2024. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 29, 2024.  
  
• Performed in scored performances and poems by C. Mehrl Bennett, during her set at the AfterMAF Festival. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 29, 2024. 
• Performed in simultaneous poems by Michael Basinski, during his set at the AfterMAF Festival. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 29, 2024. 
  
• Arthur Dies. Performed passages from forthcoming Arthur Dies, Chronicle II, Volume 2. On bill of the AfterMAF Festival. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. June 28, 2024.  
  
• Jennifer Weigel's Performance Playpen. Coordinated/MC-ed and participated in group actions from scores and props sent via the post. AfterMAF  Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA. June 28, 2024.