Snake America: Issue 17 and one third
Crazy day at the mill, boy, I tell ya. In lieu of a deep dive about candy bowls room dividers, I am confused about the following:
1. Where did the colorful parts come from and where did the other parts go? Are they on his or her floor? Is there a Rashomon (Japan, 1951) to this thing? (There are two.):
2. Cool story, bro:
3. Who are the nine other people watching? Why haven't they bought this? Why hasn't anyone else bought this? What happened in Year Two of Neo Geo Freak Magazine? Going off the Internet Archive, they were around in 1998, too. Was Neo Geo to blame or was the magazine industry for the fact that I can't find this issue on the shelves? Have they had the greatest second act in International publishing? (I don't want to be accused of burying the lede, but if you click on that link and fish around ... there's no other way to describe it. Can you still order from them?) How many writers did Neo Geo Review of Books poach from Neo Geo Freak magazine? When is this author getting sued? One of my favorite consoles, there was one by the arcade-laundromat-pizzeria near my friend Avi's house -- I played Art of Fighting (Japan, 1992) until they kicked me (but never him) out. Not really into '90s nostalgia except for the video games -- the silver age* of video games. Also, squad.
4. How fucking HAMMERED is Jennifer here? Is Clarissa a harder drinker than Jennifer? Is anyone?
I look at this photo -- it didnt capture the subtitles but she's saying, "Squaddddddd."*
5. Scrolling through the most expensive items on Craigslist is an exercise best left unreported, but what kind of asshole lists this ad:
at this price
with no picture
in Maine (on New York craigslist). I guess he compares to the fellow selling Michigan Dunk Highs for $900 buy it now on eBay or the folks who find shell chairs or Jordan 1s and put them in the four-figure range. I would like to meet them all.
6. I like the idea of rare presidential doormats having a hefty black-market value to anarchists and/or guys who the Kennedys stole their girlfriends from, kind of like bananas in the 1960s or those Nike Allah sneakers...
Real stuff next week. Thanks for reading.
Snake
*Good convo at the 2 minute mark about Indian tea, jaundice and hospitals with a cemetry view. Best of Jennifer SECOND EDITION 5 of 5 is recommended.
* Nice discussion of silver age comix by Raymond Pettibon and Jonathan Lethem (!) at about three hours in to this 19-hour video.