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Time monitor. Space measurer. ‘Zine maker. Athens, GA www.garbageskeleton.skin

Don't do the voice
A grainy video still of Alexei Sayle from the television program "Boom Boom Out Go The Lights." Alexi is a white man with close-cropped dark hair.He is wearing a dark suit with an incredibly thin tie. He is making what I can only assume was a funny face.
Richie and Eddie
My record shelf, displaying the following 3 records: *The Discharge live album “The Nightmare Continues” *The PFM live album “Cook” *The Frail discography collection “No Industry”
My copy of the Quicksand album “Slip” (The 2012 SRC pressing on yellow and green vinyl with typos in the lyrics and the horrible pixelated cover) playing on my turntable.
A photo of my t-shirt, a skeleton holding a scythe, beneath which the words “Taco Bell” are written in gothic script.
My hand holding a mass market paperback edition of Jack Vance’s “The Green Pearl”
The cover of the 2014 album “Hate Springs Eternal” by Hounds of Hate
The cover to Game’s 2019 album “No One Wins”
The Fumio Miyashita records “Wave: Sounds of the Universe” and “Silent Echo” displayed on my record shelf.
A scene from Rawhead Rex in which a police officer offers a man a cup of tea to which the man responds “why don’t you go fuck yourself”
The menu screen of the “Rawhead Rex” Blu-ray on my television.
Another weird A.I. hand
Michael Kupperman’s “Are Comics Serious Literature” comic
Weird A.I. hand
My hand, holding 2 sheets of postage stamps
A message from my friend. It says "I'm going to stab you"
An image from Discogs showing the j-card of the cassette described which is just a bunch of colored triangles. It looks terrible and I love it.
Five translations/retellings of “Beowulf.” They are *Burton Raffel *Maria Dahvana Headley *A prose re-telling by Rosemary Sutcliff *A prose re-telling by Michael Foreman *The ol’ Seamus Heaney
A handmade sign taped to a bookstore shelf beneath the works of Charles Dickens. Beside a crude drawing of a ghost (essentially Pac-Man style), it says “Charles Dickens believed in the Supernatural & belonged to something Called The Ghost Club.”
Giggletown
A panel from an issue of “Captain America.” It is a waist-up drawing of Captain America against a yellow background. He is holding out one hand and saying “WELL, I SAY AMERICA IS NOTHING! WITHOUT ITS IDEALS--ITS COMMITMENT TO THE FREEDOM OF ALL MEN, AMERICA IS A PIECE OF TRASH!” a second word balloon continues: “A NATION IS NOTHING! A FLAG IS A PIECE OF CLOTH!!”
A photo of my wall, showing Michael Kupperman’s “Are Comics Serious Literature” print hanging on it.
DRI’s “Dirty Rotten LP.” This is the first pressing of this material as an LP from 1983. I think I’ve had this since 1991.
A couple of those Ken Burns Civil War people what was always a-writin' letters to one another
My hand, holding 2 red “cowhorn” peppers and one small red “lunchbox” pepper.
A stack of paperback books. Only the spines are visible. They are, from top to bottom: * "Jondelle" by E.C. Tubb * "Earthwind" by Robert Holdstock * "Dragon's Island" by Jack Williamson * The Ace Double edition of "The Ladder in the Sky" by Keith Woodcott and "The Darkness Before Tomorrow" by Robert Moore Williams * "Retief of the CDT" by Keith Laumer * "No World of Their Own" by Poul Anderson * "The Invaders Are Coming" by Alan E. Nourse & J.A. Meyer * The Ace Double edition of "Envoy to New Worlds" by Keith Laumer and "Flight From Yesterday" by Robert Moore Williams * The Ace Double edition of "The Automated Goliath" and "The Three Suns of Amara" by William F. Temple * "Duke Elric" (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné: Volume 4) by Michael Moorcock
Jack Vance’s “Lyonesse” books (Lyonesse, The Green Pearl, and Madouc) in a stack on my table.
A print of the cover of the cassette version of Black Sabbath’s “Master of Reality”
Me, a white man with grey hair, holding a plate of 6 piles of Ethiopian food on a giant piece of injera
A card of various sizes and shapes of needles. The top of the card says “HANDY NEEDLE assoitment”
A copy of my ‘zine “Low Effort” on which an awl and needle have been laid. There’s a roll of waxed thread on the table beside it. There’s also a red Sharpie and small pieces of thread that I’ve trimmed off other copies.
The Birmingham Pen Company Model C “Ironsides,” a solid steel fountain pen with a 0.6mm Nemosine nib. The pen is resting on a notebook on which the sentence “There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play basketball” is written in Pelikan turquoise ink.
Three people: a child, a woman, and a man. The man and woman have matching perms.
The new issue of my “photography ‘zine” “Low Effort”
The phrase "No War But Class War" stylized as the New York Knicks logo
A single jalapeño in a blue and white bowl.
The cover of the Paul Nelson album “Vortex” standing up beside my turntable, on which the record is playing.
The cover of the Marvel Masterworks collection of “Omega the Unknown”
Marvel Comics character The Thing dances in the Charlotte Convention Center.
You (a dullard, the tip of your mustard-stained dunce cap blunted and bent): Is George RR Martin *ever* going to publish “Winds of Winter”? Me (elegant, refined, sapphire cufflinks glinting in the evening Mediterranean sunlight): I sincerely hope David Gerrold publishes the last three books in the Chtorr series soon.
A stack of mass market paperbacks on a blue and white checked tablecloth. The books are 🔘“Give Warning to the World” by John Brunner 🔘”Hour of the Horde” by Gordon Dickson 🔘”Generation,” a collection of short stories edited by David Gerrold 🔘”The Fall of the Towers” by Samuel R. Delany 🔘”Holding Water” by Zenna Henderson
An email in my inbox. The sender is “Blood Cancer United” The subject line is “Thank you, Robert. You did this.”
The cover of “Scoring Big at Pac-Man: How to Munch the Monsters” by Craig Kubey (Warner Books, 1982)
A sketch and signature from Skip Williamson
Dave Stevens’ signature
Jim Steranko’s signature
Pete Bagge and Patty Leidy’s signatures.
Mark Bodé’s signature and a drawing of a dead budgie.
Ben Edlund’s signature alongside a drawing of The Tick with a beak
The cover of “Your First Budgie,” an instructional comic about raising pet budgies. Evan had nothing to do with this comic. The artist is Enrique Videla.
The Vicks VapoInhaler, a camphor-scented stick that you keep in your pocket and huff up your nose when your sinuses are blocked. This thing is the only reason I'm able to breathe today.
The side of a brown van marked “Blendin Electric Company.” This is a gag from the television program “Arrested Development” in which several “Blendin” companies were used as fronts for government surveillance operations.
A bottle of Itoen Oi Ocha unsweetened green tea featuring a full-body photograph of baseball great Shohei Ohtani on the label.
The Necromunda tabletop game.
Two copies of my “photography ‘zine” “Low Effort.” It is a quarter-sized ‘zine. One copy is on yellow NCR paper. The other is on standard white paper.
A “Star Trek: The Next Generation” title card which reads “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.”
Okay, 1987 has the same dats as 2026, right, so I'm using this '87 DragonLance calendar this year and May's image is... okay picture a typical "wizard's workshop" right? Shelves of ancient tomes, skulls, magical and curs-ED items lying all around, you get it. Anyway, in that workshop is a platform on which a portal to another world is open. The wizard is standing there, purple energy surrounding his hand, looking over his right shoulder at a woman standing in the room, holding a sword. the woman is wearing a blue headband and has short black hair. She's wearing what appears to be a magical sports bra, with one strap falling off the shoulder. The sports bra is all ripped up, as are the woman's tights. It looks like she's been in a fight. She wearing a chainmail bikini bottom. It's the only armor she has on, so at least her genitals and butthole are well-protected. She's also wearing boots, but that's not important. What is important is that she looks REMARKABLY like Pat Benetar. And look, I know this isn't what Pat never wore chainmail or anything like that, but it's SIMILAR to things she did wear, you know? Like, the MOOD matches. It's a VISUAL RHYME. I don't know. Don't be so pedantic about it. Also the woman's face, you have to admit, is Benetar-esque.
The cover of a bootleg LP of Crass demos and their Peel Seasion.
The issue of Amazing Stories with the “Scientifiction” badge on the cover