Ladydrawers: Just the Facts Fund-raiser

Other News:

* Ear Eater comes to ROY G BIV.

* Shaver tapes's People Mostly Suck It compilation leaked.

* Justin Clifford Rhody's book Sliding Glass Door is out. Buy here.

* Saintseneca named to 50 best bands in America.

* The Comics Reporter blurbs Aidan Koch's event at the Wexner Center.

* Pheramones/Amelia tape on No Idea Records's distro.

* Punk Porch is back.

Columbus Alive Notes My Pins

The Columbus Alive's Jackie Mantey blurbed regarding my pins in the Wexner Center for the Arts's store in a piece called "Shopping: Gift Shop Top Sellers." The pins were compared favorably to potato chips. If you would like pins that are similar in certain respects to a popular snack food, email here: james.payne.cc@gmail.com.

Other News:

* The Bitch blog mentioned Women's Comics Anthology in the context of Anne Elizabeth Moore's larger Ladydrawers project and its semimonthly Truthout column.
* Fantagraphics linked to a recording I took of a Paul Hornschemeier reading in its press round-up for Hornschemeier's All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009.
* Jack Ramunni opened "HEAT SPACE" in his studio at CCAD. HEAT SPACE is "a year-long experiment" in the form of "an open project space where a variety of small events, group projects, experiments, lectures, and other creatively engaging activities will occur."
* Tavish is weirdly in this WNYC segment about Brion Gysin's Dream Machine. "Patterns. Moving." 
* Tatyana Kagamas unleashes Columbus Street Style.
* Download A.J.Fusco's mix for the 9/11 End Life rave here.
* Andrew Duncan Worthington is looking for a publication to carry his review of Austerity Pleasures.
* Bruce McClure is performing at Skylab Gallery on September 24th. The Columbus Alive blurbed it here.
* I don't know who or what Peterbd is but he/she/it sent me an email and it is after the jump.

Anobium #1 Available for Pre-Orders

ANOBIUM: VOLUME 1 is available for pre-orders. It's a Chicago-based publication instigated by Benjamin van Loon. Anobium contains two poems of mine along with writing by Rich Ives, Stephanie Plenner, Joe Meno and many more.

In other news:

* Jason Behrends reviews Austerity Pleasures on the Chicago Subtext blog.
* I have some poems forthcoming on My Name is Mud.
* I am reading poems at Kafe Kerouac in Columbus, Ohio, on July 16th with Philip Kim and Jason Dutton.
* The Boy Who Could Fly on If You Make It. Gush.
* Frank Hinton pens an ode to Cassandra Troyan.
* Pop Serial #2 is online now.
* John Also Bennett responds to Osama bin Laden's death.
* Word Wild Records released a split 10-inch by Snarlas and Pink Houses.
* Download DJ Power Smoke's set from E-Hole.
* Download Tin Armor's Life of Abundance here and their tribute to The Modern Lovers here.
* A video of Lightning Yin Yang playing the Monster House.
* Dina Sherman's show Nothing is Very Complicated just opened at the OSU Urban Arts Space.
* Berea Fest is happening on July 16th in Berea, Ohio.
* Alexis Bhagat is delivering a lecture entitled 'The Cinema as a Concert Hall for the 21st Century' on July 14th at Skylab.
* Help the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* Help Spooktober release their 10-inch album.