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Superhero Team-Up
For our final west coast run this season we’ve got a special edition of the Roadshow — a focus on the anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks. Emily Pohl-Weary edited this collection of comics, essays and stories about women who kick ass in pop culture. With her on the west coast is contributor Sonja Ahlers (Temper, Temper) and author Tamara Faith Berger (Lie With Me, The Way of the Whore). To see the cover image by Shary Boyle click the thumbnail to the left.
Between the acts movie-style trailers for Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask will play. Created by indie filmmakers in Toronto and Vancouver, they mark the re-release of Roadshow organizer Jim Munroe’s first novel. For more info on this No Media Kings 5th anniversary edition, see here.
For times and dates click here and roll over the cities on the map. This month the tour will also be stopping in Bellingham, WA, Victoria, BC, and Calgary, Alberta. For their websites click the performers above.
UPDATE: Pay Phone Tour Diaries!
Emily from Victoria: “We just finished a very full evening of events, with a superhero parade with five gullible — uh, I mean great — superheroines…”
Tamara from San Francisco: “There was one altercation, a headbutting inspired by Sonja’s work…”
Emily from Los Angeles: “Checking in from West LA from my aunt and uncle’s swanky place…”
Sonja from Eureka: “It’s been tough, we’ve had some tough moments…”
Emily from Portland: “There were five superheroines who took off after the show to fight corporate crime and sing karaoke…”
Sonja from Seattle: “He got very gregarious and was acting like Sir Laurence Olivier…”
??? from ???: “Whooooooooooo! It’s a party!”
Emily from Vancouver: “There were actually too many superheroes! They did leave to fight evil again, it’s been really nice for them to show up at our show with their hectic schedule…”
Emily from Calgary: “One of them walked out when I mentioned Buffy, I think Buffy gave them hives or something…”
Posted by Jim Munroe at March 30, 2004 10:39 PM
My Latest Book
An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil is now available! To read more about it and get a copy signed, sanctified, and shipped to your door click here. Defile your desktop with this version of the front and back cover, sample the faux blog or read the spinoff comic book.
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Outtasite Links
There's a mention of My Trip to Liberty City as "a great work of popular culture commentary" in the tech journal CTHEORY. (Thanks, Liam!)
The second segment on this amazing Wiretap podcast appears to be a funny pig story, but then transforms like manimal before your very eyes. (Thanks, Craig!)
The folks over at Rocketboom talk about the various video compression methods they use to make their daily internet show. (Thanks, Kirby!)
Gabino Travassos, publisher of the excellent music mag Mote, has a practical howto on getting ads for small magazines.
Interesting DIY culture link? Let me know!
