In response to mounting legal and physical threats, all remaining copies of The Midwest Gazzette will be assembled this weekend by a crack team of laborers, and then the entire run of 100 will be brought in an oversized picnic basket to the nearest Post Office, and then you will all receive them on August 1. August is still the month in which Issue Two will be delivered to your doorsteps.
Because of a liminal rise in upturned eyebrows, and so a substantial number of copies can reside in stores and collect dust for a while, there will be a second printing of 100 made in the coming weeks that will then be distributed in Champaign, Urbana, Wheaton, Warrenville, Chicago, Brooklyn, and select online outlets.
THANKS FELLAZ
WELCOME PITCHFORK ATTENDEES! YES, WE REMEMBER YOU FROM THE FESTIVAL! OUR RED-RIDING-HOODED EDITOR WAS GREETING AND MEETING MANY POSITIVE RECIPIENTS OF MIDGAZZ INFO AND WOULD LIKE TO WISH THEM AND THEIR KIN A WEEK OF CALM REFLECTION.
Sparks of inspiration and guidance are beginning to take flight from the depths of our carpeted offices as we prepare for the trials and tribulations and rewards of the upcoming Midwest Gazzette Issue Two.
On deck so far:
MUSIC
jacquot naismith debut lp
evan chung collected soundtrack cheese
michael tunk try sarah’s tops lp
joshua schmidt shred-pop debut lp
v/a - infectious hooks
WORDS & ART
olivia walker & katelyn eichwald - mostly unexploitative erotica collection
v/a - local portrait journal
jacquot naismith comic novella
less grandiose things
Consider this our Rated O in the grand scheme of things.
And consider giving some money to us this time!
Thank you everybody.
By the way, there are roughly 20 copies left.
We know the vast majority of you are still without a copy of Issue One. This will change en masse by the end of next week. You’ll see why it took so long, buddy.
By the way, there are roughly 20 copies left.
Though it ended up being four or five times more of a bitch than we anticipated, the first 25 mail-order copies of The Midwest Gazzette are now assembled and neatly stacked next to their sturdy envelopes. Yes, the total envelope count will technically exceed 10 if you order online.
Champaign and Urbana residents, hold your jocks, there will be an update on the coffeeshop situation soon.
(ORDER NOW!)
June First, and here it is.
“Serialized and Serrated Psychic Wonders for Champaign-Urbana and The World”:
The Midwest Gazzette
Issue 1
featuring contributions from
John Rubins
Evan Chung
[anonymous]
Kate Stevenson
Joshua Schmidt
Jack Kentala
Vigilante Obstetrician
Shlomo Zalman
Jacquot Naismith
Ashley Keyser
Sarah Poulette
Candles of Paradise
C. Spencer Yeh
Max Burnette
Katelyn Eichwald
Baudouin Oosterlynck
Brenda Murphy
Nancy Sweetwilliam Brown
is now available for (pre)order. Free of charge, no bullshit shipping, strictly limited to 100 copies. Interested booksellers, record stores, and Hot Topics may also request bulk orders, and if you’re a resident of Urbana or Champaign, IL, please find your copy at any esteemed alternative shop. Due to a perceived demand, I suggest that you not sleep:
No no no, I explain. I am here like I say to you before. I hear woman voice not my wife voice come out my wife mouth when she sleeping.
Voice tell me first time is voice of Maria Garcia and she come to tell me someone with initial R.L. kill her I have go to police and tell them. Is pretty strange. I am sit in bed listen to voice come out my wife mouth in dark have some kind accent I think is Spanish or something like that. I think is too crazy thing even though I know I read in paper is woman die small time ago name Maria Garcia. I see my wife face turn very white and her eye open like dead are walking you see in movie all the time only I am telling she is not seeing and she go back to sleep.
I don’t go to police. I think is pretty weird dream she is having. My wife is not even speak English when she is awake. Or, I think maybe she is not having dream, you know? Maybe is me having the dream. Is crazy thing, and I don’t go to police—What are they thinking about me?—but voice come back next week.
Is then I think is no dream I am having. The room is so cold I see the hot air come out my wife mouth go up. I see in the moon light coming in window. Voice say to me, Is Ronnie Logan kill me why you not go to police? I say to voice, I think I go crazy. The police think I am crazy man and put me in jail or something. Voice tell me, Please, you must go to police. Is Ronnie Logan kill me and I prove is Ronnie Logan. He take my jewelry and give to girlfriend. You tell to police, and they go find jewelry at Ronnie Logan girlfriend house, the voice say, and then is my wife waking up say, What you doing, is so cold in room? I tell her about voice come out from her mouth, and she say she dreaming all time about the horse in the west are wild running in the desert. She say I have go to police she can’t even speak English how she say these thing? She say is spirit—I think is how you say—of murder woman. So this is why I come here like I say.
[tbc]
