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	Guest Editor Ralph LaCharity : Privileged Miscellanea Two things about bars (dives): Mirrors, & smoking. I like 'em, taverns (gin mills) that is, or, as Mick calls 'em, toilets (saloons). Yeah---sitting in a toilet, smoking a cigarette, eavesdropping withal, at once covert and sidelong, staring at myself in a mirror... what could be better? Diving horizontally in a fundamental drift, you bet. Tell me ... You have assembled a smorgasbord of the possible. That’s what a feature is. What this feature is. Ancient Egypt’s corruptions articulated as minutiae beloved on the sly. Even dust motes are collages, and we all know collages rule. 2007 was the year the public smoking ban began to be enforced in the toilets of Ohio. Another wake-up call? The better among my pub crawling brethren are all scofflaws. As of this date mirrors are still OK. Somewhere, nightly, the poets are still singing...


	Former Feature Dave Sparks' Drexel Ohio Drexel: Big John's House 4.27 MB
	Drexel: Practicing Preachers 3.3MB
	Drexel: Standing in the Shadow of the Valley of the Dollar Store 4.15 MB
	Drexel: Black Widow 5 MB

Ken Morgan: The Circus Comes to Town

Two month review of Connecticut based artist Ken Morgan launches with drawings from his series New Tricks, The Romper Rooms and Multipage Drawings.
From Bio:
Picture This: It’s 1949 and I’m nine months old, sitting in an old tin wash bucket welded to the end of a twelve-foot pole being balanced on my father’s forehead.
Now Picture This: I’m eighteen years old, doing a free headstand on top of a twenty-three-foot perch pole balanced on my father’s forehead performing on Don Amechi’s Televised International Showtime in Sherbrooke, Canada (1967). We share the bill with, among others, “The Human Cannonball Act” (the world famous Zacchinis)....
From Statement:
Thought and purpose stokes our desires. When these desires become all consuming the journey is planned. A 360 degree search narrows our point of departure and one’s visual wit is pursued. Perseverance will be demanded. The ability to see a course that needs altering is essential. To admit your misgivings is crucial. Growth is inevitable as revelations define and focus your visual wit. Self governing work ethics equates to self worth, your reward is pride...

Former Feature Willie Smith Performing His Poem: How the Cops Fixed My Ass
Open original Willie Smith Feature from May 2004

Free Willie Smith e-Book: Submachinegun Suicide