comedy

The Coup is a short comic about two men in prison during a military coup.

"Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory starts in an ice cream truck and ends at an absinthe bar. From crud rock parties to the Billy Graham Crusade, from Digital Underground to the MLA convention, the book follows Mickey's career as a college writing instructor through his side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character and horribly inept house sitter. The jobs begin out of financial necessity, but become more of a diversion, and almost an obsession, as Mickey discovers what he wants to do with his life, and then what he wants to do next."

"when the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister & Adelaid lose their post modern marbles. He plots revenge against art patriarch the matypus,while she obsesses over their love affair. Meanwhile the art school set experiments with bad drugs, bad sex and bad ideas. But none of these desperate young minds has counted on the intrusion of a punk named Punk and his potent sex drug. The wild herd of teenagers gets caught up in the gravitational pull of the matypus's sinister White Ball where a confused art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion."

"In Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg.... they have created a play about an adult gay relationship that is funny, poignant, challenging and that has the smell of truth. In presenting a story that should appeal to gay and straight audiences alike, it fulfills the best promises of Bailiwick's annual Pride Performance Series. Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg is the story of two days in the life of Gerry Gallagher, a conflicted but appealing gay Irish Catholic priest, and his long-time lover, Josh Kaplan, a jewish atheist professor of English... In the course of the eve and day of St. Valentine, Gerry confronts an AIDS-related TB diagnosis, an archdiocesan plan to close his Puerto Rican parish.... and an attempt to patch things up with Josh on what should be their seventh anniversary "

"This is the insider's guide for anyone looking to make it in the Windy City arts scene. Whether your field is art, poetry, dance, comedy, film, theater, literature, opera, jazz, or rock n' roll, this hitchhiker's guide to Chicago's arts galaxy tells you where to go, who to talk to, and how to get gigs, showings, auditions, productions, openings and more." Also contains interviews.

Music reviews and interviews, comics, obituaries. The robot issue.

self-published pamphlet of "comedy with a conscience"