Closet Games
Times of tumult call for tumultuous imaginations. There is a wonderful germ lurking in the 19th century romantic genre of “closet drama”. The term is usually applied to an unhinged dramatic production by some radical [...]
The Art of Pins
A pin in the worm A pin in the teacher A pin in the eye of a scientist A pin in Eyjafjallajökull A pin at Waterloo A pin in the brain of Mendeleev A pin [...]
Dream Films & Irrational Rituals
Two short surrealist inquiries recently posted online. DREAM FILMS INQUIRY Do you have any memories of strange lost films from your childhood? Films which may have been real or may have been dreamed, or perhaps [...]
Too Many Captain Cooks
(A Game from Anthony Redmond) “Too many Captain Cooks” -Rembarrnga man, Paddy Wainburrangga In 2020, as colonial Australia commemorates its founding myth on the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Capt. James Cook’s death ships [...]
Lucio Fulci’s CONQUEST
“In a place beyond time, comes a terrifying challenge beyond imagination!” “Conquest" (1983) is a celluloid spirit who was birthed (apparently) from inside some still-uncharted void, a lost Surspace where both time and the imagination have [...]
A SPARK IN SEARCH OF A POWDER KEG
Rebellion is its own justification, completely independent of the chance it has to modify the state of affairs that gives rise to it. It’s a spark in the wind, but a spark in search of [...]
The Other Time
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MINNEAPOLIS ATHANOR
Beautiful, marvelous week. America is on fire, america is shining, america is a flower of joyful rage. A dead tree, bearing unexpected fruit. A fresh batch of lynchings by repulsive pigs and pig wannabes earlier [...]
“What Are You Going to Do About It?”
A collection of the Chicago surrealist newspaper, "What Are You Going to Do About It?", including an article on the LA rebellion of 1992 can be found below. Thanks to Bruno Jacobs for the images. [...]
John Kendrick Bangs – Notes on a Yonkers Dreamer
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an american humorist who lived in the New York suburb of Yonkers. He had a long and multifaceted career penning articles, satires, fantasies, as well as some genuine undiluted nonsense. [...]
Seven Stories
or The (im)Parting of Friends at Unbanyokatulinys’s Eggs A new novel by Casi Cline At its heart, Seven Stories is a novel about the search for truth. A group of seven animals meet under a [...]
Dream of Fire – Guy Girard
Guy Girard, dream of Wednesday April 15, 2020: I have just received the new issue of Peculiar Mormyrid, which is devoted to the theme of fire. I read the editorial by Jason A., admittedly very [...]
The Treasure is Below the Third Pyramid
“I tried one syllable words like am, art, it and off. The Egg trembled very slightly, without communicating any meaning to me.” -Leonora Carrington, The Stone Door I am by myself. I have in front [...]
The Place Of The Unconscious On An Upright Collapsed Wall Calendar
BY TH.D.TYPALDOS English translation (from greek language) by Nikos Stabakis I reside in a parked wagon standing on the sharp edge of a snail My roommates a pile of human bones and a blood chestnut [...]
Confinement Games
Open your refrigerator, and listen to its hum. Interpret its speech. TW: The refrigerator makes many inane pronouncements: ‘Not on my watch’ , ‘Our duty is to...’, ‘We salute those brave pioneers who...’ I try [...]