Look at what I did!

Everyone knows that print is dead, so to celebrate that fact, I went and made a fanzine! What a good idea! It's called The Atomic Elbow and it's about professional wrestling, which is one of the best things ever.



It's 48 pages of me and some other folks (namely Scott T. Holland, Box Brown and Patrick Dean. Featuring photos by Zia Hiltey) writing and drawing about rasslin', and I know I'm biased, but I think it's pretty good.

It's got stuff in it about Bob Mould.



It's got a comic about Andre the Giant and Bad News Brown, it's got an interview with UltraMantis Black, and it's got an almost 9,000 word essay about Halloween Havoc 2000.



Also, the first 100 copies come with a limited edition set of three one-inch buttons featuring UltraMantis Black, the UltraMantis Black logo and the Atomic Elbow logo.

The first printing is sold out, but you'll still get an Atomic Elbow logo button and a special edition Atomic Elbow mystery poster. (I mean, it's really an 11" x 17" photocopy, but I can call that a poster, right? I say I can. And I say it's a "poster".) I'm not going to show you what the poster looks like on the internet. You've gotta order a copy to find out.


You probably want one of these, right? I hope you do.

You can get one by sending me five dollars through paypal. If you live in Canada or Mexico, please send seven (American) dollars. If you live in a country that isn't the USA, Canada or Mexico, please send nine (American) dollars. The email address to use is secondperiod[at]gmail[dot]com. Or, you can do it the old-timey way and send me the cash in the mail. The address is 231 Rhodes Drive / Athens, GA / 30606.

Please buy my wrestling fanzine!

Thanks!

Where have I been this time?

I have been working on a thing. That's where.

This is the thing I have been working on.



The cover'll probably look slightly different in its final version. You can see it in April, probably. It'll be pretty good.

Go Metric #7 (1997)

My stuff is starting to get spread out a little, but that's just because I'm finding people on the internet doing a better job at some of the stuff I am doing here. That's a long way of saying that I'm probably going to send all future music-fanzine-related posts over to the fine folks at the Digital fanzine Preservation Society. They just posted my scan of issue #7 of Go Metric! fanzine from 1997. You can download it here. You should take a look at the other stuff they're doing over there, too. It's awesome. Hooray!

Monkeybite #1

Oh, man, 1997. I'm glad I did it, but I'm really glad it's over. Anyway, when I was working as a proofreader / paste-up "artist" at this book packaging company on Hawthorne (they tore the building down a few years ago. It's that vacant lot next to the auto parts store, for all you Athens people) I decided it would be an incredibly good idea to start a 'zine distribution thing. I would get self-published material from all over and sell it at shows. Everyone loves 'zines, right? No.

Well, at least I got to read some awesome stuff. One of the more awesome titles I "distributed" was Monkeybite. It was primarily concerned with the "power violence" scene that was all the rage at the time. No, really. I'm actually being serious about that. It was a real thing. The always entertaining Metal Inquisition recently posted a power violence nostalgia post here, which you should read whether you are interested in the music or not. Actually, you should read everything those guys write. They're brilliant.

So yeah, Monkeybite was primarily concerned with "power violence" (which is a dumb name for a genre of music, but everyone within the genre knew it, too. Nobody seriously referred to anything with that term) and non-human primates. It was well written, and it had an actual sense of humor, which was sort of a rarity for the time.

I split the 'zine into two files of 32 pages each. Some of the scans are crooked as hell, but if you're the type to complain that your free download of a way-too-long Spazz interview from 12 years ago isn't 100% straight, then you may have larger problems at work.

Please click here to download Monkeybite #1. They did a second issue, which is also great and it came with a Black Army Jacket / Noothgrush split 7". I may get around to posting that soon.

Also, and I know this is a long shot, but if you are or know someone who is Gary or Andrew (the 2 apes responsible for this 'zine) then I thank you very much for putting this out, and acknowledge that I may actually still owe you money from 1997. I was such a dumbass, but then, as Sgt. D from Metal Inquisition recently said to me in a Twitter conversation "we All were, bro!"

Indeed.