New V.V. Buttons

These new V.V. BUTTONS can be found at Rag-O-Ramas in Columbus, OH; Atlanta, GA; and Sandy Springs, GA. More after the jump.

V.V. BOOKS AT WINTER FLEA

V.V. Books will be tabling at the Winter Flea February 2nd and at The Summit on February 8th.

Other News:

* Video of Adam Rose's November performance at ROY. 

* Short North Gazette published my poem "Environmentalists;" it's in the January/February issue.

* I have three pieces in ImageOhio 13, which opens January 18th at 6:00 p.m. Articles in the Columbus Alive, Donewaiting, and The Lantern.

* I spoke with Tom Wagner and Darryl Mendelson at the opening of OSU Urban Arts Space's Mark Beyer: With/Without Text. It's great. See it.

* Temporary Art Review's profiles of Skylab Gallery and ROY G BIV Gallery.

* I have photos of price tags  in a show at Columbus Metropolitan Library's Carnegie Gallery; it opens February 7th at 6:00 p.m.

Austerity Pleasures, Now in Very Select Stores

My poetry chapbook Austerity Pleasures is now available for purchase here:

Quimby's in Chicago, Illinois

Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana

Inquiring Minds Bookstore in New Paltz, New York

Mac's Backs in Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Used Kids Records in Columbus, Ohio

Wexner Center for the Arts Store in Columbus, Ohio

Wholly Craft in Columbus, Ohio

Powell's Bookstore in Portland, Oregon

Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Modern Art Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom

Would your store care to carry Austerity Pleasures? If so, please email Richard@monsterhousepress.com.

After the jump is a blurb Edie Fake wrote for Quimby's website regarding Austerity Pleasures, and a few other tidbits of feedback.

MONSTER HOUSE YARD SALE 6/5/2010

Entrepreneurship is the rumored heart and soul of the capitalist enterprise and therefore the ostensible lifeblood of our nation.

The "yard sale," as it is popularly known, is a reenactment and metaphor, based in nostalgia, for an utopian (as in no place) American entrepreneurship/citizenship.

We can think of the yard sale as saying, "Yes, I am American - I have a yard, my own piece of America. And I have objects, objects which I am free to include in the free-market."

It is in the hollow and temporary union of these two drives - economic and political, free-market and "free personhood," that we can understand what Americans think it means to be "American" - even as the true foundation of the American economy in the 21st century belies the notion that the individual has any agency in its machinations.

What we are selling and where after "The Jump."

Dorothy Gambrell Interview

Dorothy Gambrell is the creator of the long running and overly educated webcomic titled "Cat and Girl" that successfully straddles the line between knock-knock joke and philosophical dialogue. Gambrell also produces humorous/sad infographics at Very Small Array, keeps an ongoing document of how she spends other people's money at Donation Derby, and made another strip (now dead) called "The New Adventures of Death." One of her bands, The Basement Apartments, has a song about Jacques Cousteau. The other is called Jenny and the Holzers. What follows below is a Gmail Chat/interview from February 23rd, 2010.

(A version of this interview is at LADYDRAWERS, the Anne Elizabeth Moore-helmed blog of everything not-a-dude in comics.)