A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monsters. Here is the back cover. More photos.

A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monsters. Here is the four-headed monster. More photos.

A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monsters. Here is the tall monster. More photos.

A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book. Here is the terrifying eye monster. More photos.

A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monster drawings. More photos.

A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book. More photos.

Another dispatch from my youth: one of my earliest books - possibly even the first! The staple overkill binding has held up quite well. I’m not sure when I made I made this but I’m guessing I was about eight years old (which would be thirty-three years ago). More photos to follow.

I continue to document the sculpture-like structures that people in Chicago construct to prevent cars from bashing into their garage, jumping the curb, or otherwise going where they are not wanted. Here is a new addition to the larger collection on Flickr.

Primary Concern #2. Published by Marc Fischer, Philadelphia, PA, 1988. Yes, this is by yours truly, when I was about 17 years old. While I will let you see the cover with art by Bryon Bruening, that’s as much as you’re gonna get. This issue was extra thick - 70 pages!

More underground music stuff that was hiding in my mom’s attic: Karl Agell from School of Violence, taken at an S.O.V. show at the Frankford YWCA in Philadelphia in 1988 or 89. Agell later sung for Corrosion of Conformity. 

A photo of the New York band Nausea at the club Revival in Philadelphia, taken by yours truly. I believe this is from 1989.

Documentation of face painting signage at Linvilla Orchards in Media, Pennsylvania, taken earlier today. See older face painting material from Mexico City here.

Documentation of face painting signage at Linvilla Orchards in Media, Pennsylvania, taken earlier today. See older face painting material from Mexico City here.

Travel and out of town guests have kept me away from blogging for the past week. Whenever I travel to Philadelphia, I get an opportunity to look at stuff in my old bedroom and my mom’s attic, and this will provide much material for future posts. Here are two boxes of old zines, mail, zine layouts and other underground music culture goodness from over 20 years ago. There’s even more in the attic, and I’m only taking about 50 zines back to Chicago, but I’m excited to share this stuff. I found some nice concert photos that other people sent me and plenty of show flyers as well. Most of the zines will be on view at an event in Chicago later this summer. More on that closer to the time.