MONANISMS
Many of us have returned raving about Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) since it opened in January. The more well-connected among us even... read more...
Zine review #32, 'Epitaph For My Heart #6: A Survival Guide To Being Social'
I’ve seen the ‘STREET’ section of Three Thousand’s mailout, so I know a lot of you won’t need help being sociable. I’m... read more...
The Ball Street Journal
Year six was a battlefield and the ammunition was basketball cards. You could be the shortest, weakest, whitest person in the world and still know the... read more...
Daniel Clowes, 'Mister Wonderful'
The problem with loving Dan Clowes (and not living in America) is the interminable wait. Or so it seems. His last book-length outing, Ice Haven, came out... read more...
Zine review #30, 'Realia' #1'
Have you ever done something because someone has expressly told you it would be beyond your abilities? For the author of Realia, that specific something... read more...
Art Park Journal #1
My colleague described Byron Bay as a beautiful place, with gorgeous beaches, picture-perfect sunsets, vibrating rainbows and melting unicorns. Turns out... read more...
Lloyd Stubber, 'Scram'
Oh hey. Check it out, it’s a guy in what looks to be a spooky water drainage tunnel that is overgrown with invading tree roots. Looky, looky, there’s... read more...
Andrew Kessler, 'Martian Summer'
What would your dream backstage pass involve? Having the opportunity to steal watermelon from the rider at a Peter Frampton concert? Being able to spend... read more...
Zine review #29, 'That Hurt! Tattoo Ideas For The Brokenhearted'
Thinking of getting a tattoo to celebrate the newfound beau you recently ensnared via that creepy voyeuristic bit at the back of the free paper? (“I... read more...
James Franco 'Palo Alto'
Whenever I think of James Franco, I think of that 30 Rock ‘Bubble’ episode where that guy from Mad Men thinks he’s really good at everything... read more...
Jay Howell, 'Punks Git Cut'
Did you catch the dude stabbing his eye out and the long hair with the ‘Shred Time’ shirt? Yeah, that’s a teaser for Punks Git Cut, a... read more...
Zine review #28, 'Biblio-Curiosa'
Chris Mikul’s most regular visitation into our zine-related consciousness is as author of Bizarrism, a celebration of human oddity where Satanic... read more...
'Sneeze' issue #11
I opened issue #11 of Sneeze mag this morning and read the whole thing. Not because it’s Pulitzer material but rather the opposite. Short summary:... read more...
Bruce Russell, 'Left-Handed Blows'
Bruce Russell is like, the granddaddy of new music. If you think the dings and tings you’re hearing in low-lit performance spaces are out of this... read more...
Dave Graney, '1001 Australian Nights' (an interview with Handsome Steve Miller)
We were all ready to run a review of Dave Graney’s book 1001 Australian Nights this week, but the copy didn’t arrive in the post on time. So... read more...
Dumbo Feather, issue #27
No-one’s denying it. Dumbo Feather Pass It On is a stupid name for a magazine. When you think about it though, everything is a stupid name for everything.... read more...
The Indie Cred Test
In the ’90s Georgia’s Chunklet magazine consistently killed with smart pisstakes on hipster culture and an alternative comedy focus (publisher... read more...
David Vann, 'Caribou Island'
David Vann’s 2008 collection of stories Legend of a Suicide moved me. With his own father committing suicide when Vann was 13 – an event which... read more...
Zine review #27, 'Teef'
I’m seeing my dentist soon. It’s that time of year when you get the friendly notice in the mail. Every time I get told I need to floss, and... read more...
Dave Carnie, 'Boob'
My psychologist told me I am the first intellectual skateboarder he has encountered. He should get out of that weird office more often, because skaters... read more...
DIRTY Queer Magazine, issue #2
It must be hard being a gay dog in this world. Only seeing in black and white, and all. If I were a gay dog wandering down Oxford Street and picked up... read more...
Zine review #26, 'Choose your own adventure (CYOA)' issue #2
You know how you get really excited about something and you flail your arms around and keep exclaiming “amazing” and gesticulating madly and... read more...
Condiment: Adventures in Food and Form, issue #2
The second edition of Condiment is concerned with the notion of questionable taste, encompassing not only food but also food. Through a series of studies... read more...
doingbird #15
Browsing through a new issue of doingbird is kind of like going around to a really cool friend’s place for dinner. For an entire week leading up... read more...