Emerson Dameron

A collection of writings from the loose collective of independent publishers involved in Diatribe Media. Articles on: Free Trade Area of the Americas, CrimethInc, Statement of the American Violence Coalition, as well as fiction, poetry, and personal writing.

A short-lived free magazine on a variety of topics, priding itself on being “the most brazen magazine in Chicago.” Features on: Car horns, Bible of the Devil, cheap living, Chicago’s love affair with skyscrapers and Donald Trump, a primer on Wal-Mart, Terry Schiavo and rights to control your own body, Ipecac Records and Chocolate Industries, the male orgasm, the logging industry, Garbage Pail Kids, television crime dramas

Essays on unusual local cultural establishments. And a guy in a scary mask shows you how to use a condom.<br />

Features on the fate of the Carson Pirie Scott building and the chaos surrounding its sale, the CTA's condecension and apathy toward delays on the Red Line caused by the Brown Line, an interview with Preacher Samuel Chambers in the Loop, an interview with Andy Ortmann of Panicsville and Nihilist Records, Reversible Eye gallery in Humboldt Park run by Elena Brocade and Ryan Shuquem, contrasting and comparing the 90's teenage punk scene in Lakeview with the present, a Rogers Park local gives a tour.<br />

A philiosophical zine with entries on fate, lying, underemployment, and fire.<br />