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Beer Mystic

Beer Mystic Burp #20: Eddie Woods Has Been Around the Block – With & Without Tennessee

bart plantenga

“If Tennessee Williams doesn’t know what to do with his life, why should I worry?” ~ Eddie Woods, Tennessee Williams in Bangkok Eddie Woods and I go back to October 1978. It was in Amsterdam at the Ins & Out...

Beer Mystic Burp #20: Ron Kolm: No Longer Chugging Rank Cologne

bart plantenga

Ron Kolm: No Longer Chugging Rank Cologne One of the perils of the fast life is that if you’re not synchronized with the prevailing velocity you lose focus, things get blurry, imprecise, or you end up getting dragged a...

Beer Mystic Burp #19: Beer in Times of Distillation

bart plantenga

“glory wreathes, flutes” • Karen Garthe, “Buckle Up, Sweetie” bart plantenga I buy beer when other purchasing behavior fails. I drink beer to slow down the ridiculous spin of this earth & defuse those who...

Beer Mystic Burp #18: The Long Windy Road to a Closed Bar

bart plantenga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeL1QzGsc BEER MYSTIC: Read Beer Drink Novel: I thought by serving words in the name of beer & side effect mysticism would be repaid in not only the enchantment of words & the jo...

Beer Mystic Burp #17: Beer Party Trumps Tea Party Any Day

bart plantenga

A discussion with activist cartoonist and BEER MYSTIC host, Ken Avidor [here posed as Greek God of Mini-Golf, Nkolfus, in Asbury Park, c. 1984]. I knew Ken [aka Weiner] for many years in NYC, during its – or was it jus...

Beer Mystic Burp #16: Books – Increasingly Illegal Intoxicants?

bart plantenga

An interview with Karen Lillis When I was just beginning high school I was one scared, miffed, gawky, pimply kid, unlike the rest of the kids somehow. But what kid of 13 didn’t feel that way? (photo: Karen in the ...

Beer Mystic Burp #15: Beer as Therapy

bart plantenga

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners • Albert Camus You gotta chortle in your beerhead at the maxim “Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy,” a tongue-in-cheek saying fraught [...

Beer Mystic Burp #14: Beer = Food = Books

bart plantenga

Apparently I said “In NY the louder and crazier you sound, the more attention you seem to get,” and this was quoted in the Sunday Boston Globe about our Cambridge gig. Luckily they used a photo of Judy Nylon and not me. ...

Beer Mystic Burp #13: Without the Voodoo of Hope

bart plantenga

Hitching through mid-1970s Canada usually meant Canadian Border Services stopping you, inquiring how much money you had on your person. If it was under $25 they’d refuse you entry, which meant hitching the long way round ...

Beer Mystic Burp #12: Stroh’s Cans to the Head

bart plantenga

I suddenly have vivid memories of survival in Flint, Michigan, Motor City Jr., birthplace of GM. I was a stranger here because I rode a bike with books of poetry in my back pocket and some locals could smell this alienness ...

Beer Burp #11: Obsolete Drunken Nirvana

bart plantenga

Rich Dana, is not just the editor of the retro-future activist aesthetics journal Obsolete but also a guy doing battle – and making his own peace – with the various seemingly overwhelming forces of displacement, corpo...

Beer Mystic Burp #10: The Amble, The Ale

bart plantenga

The Amble, The Ale: Walking Nowhere Into the Pale “Freedom knows no propaganda more effective than people calmly enjoying themselves.” • Raoul Vaneigm, The Revolution of Everyday Life I was pointed to a youtu...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #9: Beernuts are People Too

bart plantenga

You can make a lot of friends on social networks if you’re into beer. You can do that quite adequately in bars as well. You buy a few elbow jockeys a round of canned goat urine and you might have friends for life, the kind...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #8: Eddie Don’t Do Beer

bart plantenga

No, Eddie Woods don’t do beer, he does white wine, anything above 3 euros is just fine. Pinot Grigio or Chardonnay is more than OK by him. Not before 5 and thereafter, he switches to red – Merlot [EW correction] or Beau...

BEER MYSTIC Burp #7: Beer = Liquid Cartoonist

bart plantenga

BEER MYSTIC Burp #7 X-Large I see is the new large in clothing sizes. Size matters, so now a medium cup is like a trough of soda at McSubWenNuggests. They even try to super-size you when you rent a car, from an obese sedan ...

Sensitive Skin Books

There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.

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Mayakovsky Maximum Access

Jenny Wade

24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade

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King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.

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The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.

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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 11

Featuring Arthur Nersesian, Celia Farber, Maggie Estep, Joshua Mohr, Marc Olmsted, Stephen Lack, Evelyn Bencicova, Sun Ra, Dîre McCain, many more.

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Sensitive Skin 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.

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Sensitive Skin 10

Charles Gatewood, Gary Indiana, Drew Hubner, Patrick O’Neil, Tony DuShane, Sharon Mesmer, James Reich, Breyten Breytenbach, Nick Zedd, more.

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Mystic Meanderer, Solo Exhibition by Eric Jiaju Lee — review by Franklin Mount

Mystic Meanderer, Solo Exhibition by Eric Jiaju Lee Silk Road Gallery, 83 Audubon Road, New Haven, Connecticut. Through November 19, 2016 At this point in the Twenty-First Cen...

It Is Not Here on Earth What I Am Seeking

I don’t know what I am seeking In the cool night rivers and birds a sensuous lip a rainbow of dreams past waterfalls the ruins of cities appear and fade in front of me awk...

Fairies – Photographs by Julia Kissina

Photographs by Julia Kissina from the "Fairies" project, from 1997-98. Julia Kissina is a photographer and writer born in Kiev, Ukraine. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in M...

Mt. Eden 1978-82

It started in a pool hall. Juan Colon had a girl friend, and so did the cop, Jimmy O’Donnelly. The problem was it was the same girl. Usually a policeman is issued whatever number...

The Other Paris by Luc Sante – Review

Bernard Meisler

You're about the read what may be the strangest book review you've ever come across, because I'm going to admit up front that I haven't read the book I'm about to review. Actually,...

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