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 poet, so vast or unusual in concept, and so beyond the realm of possibility, as to be unstageable. Could this [...]
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 in Transylvania A pin in the preacher A pin in the pit A pin in the pendulum A pin in [...]
(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 along the eastern seaboard of Australia and New Zealand, a global revolt is erupting against state violence in settler colonies. [...]
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. He is typically cited for a kind of silly fantasy genre named after him involving interactions among famous dead historical [...]
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 lyrical and written in an apocalyptic tone, but I worry that these calls for fire, destructive and purifying fire, are [...]
“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 of me a disorienting booklet entitled “Clues to MEANING”. The front cover depicts three people, one young, one old, one [...]
Now available from Coach House Books and bookstores, a stunning new journey into the oneiric wonderland from S.D. Chrostowska: In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. "S. D. Chrostowska achieves unexpected buoyancy in spite of the intensity of her material. Permission, certain [...]
Scene I A flower spreads open in black and white with a tentacle for each petal. One cloudy day this plant will gesture threateningly to a line of elementary students in front of their school. Voice: “The smallest is the best kind.” [This film is cut from the hypnagogic imagery and phrases [...]
Automatic response after watching the film Tourist Trap (1979) Yes the broken manikin is the ending, this is a film about endings like all mannequins are in fact over and done with humans (wait, who with whom?) Discarded mentality is what this flurry of axes with makeup, how their lovely mouths flip open with a [...]
It's very exciting to see that the catalogue for the Archaeology of Hope, an international surrealist game, exhibition and ritual held on the Isle of Wight in 2017, is now available from Head Louse Press. This gorgeous catalogue contains many strange and shocking wonders from the surrealist future. "The Archaeology of Hope was launched on the [...]
