JenMarie and I are very excited to announce that Fact-Simile Magazine and The O Mission Repo were reviewed in the January/February 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine! So pick up a copy at your local bookstore, flip to page 18 and read it out loud at the top of your lungs to whoever will listen.*
*The first person to actually commit and document said act will receive a FREE Fact-Simile Baseball Tee!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
"The O Mission Repo" Receives its First Review!
Happy Halloween America! We just wanted to let you all know that our first full-length book, "The O Mission Repo" has received its first official review.
If you don't know about Cool 'Eh Magazine, you should find out about Cool 'Eh Magazine.
These guys are based in NYC and somehow manage to keep their dirty little fingers on the local/national pulse of politics, art and music on a monthly basis. You can check out their latest issue at the address below or visit them at the link to your right.
COOL' EH WEB ISSUE # 11
Please check it out if you get a chance!
-The Editors
If you don't know about Cool 'Eh Magazine, you should find out about Cool 'Eh Magazine.
These guys are based in NYC and somehow manage to keep their dirty little fingers on the local/national pulse of politics, art and music on a monthly basis. You can check out their latest issue at the address below or visit them at the link to your right.
COOL' EH WEB ISSUE # 11
Please check it out if you get a chance!
-The Editors
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Fact-Simile is Moving to Santa Fe!
As some of you may know, I got laid off from my job last month and have been searching feverishly for a new one ever since.
Well, I finally found it. And it's a good one. Only problem is: it's in Santa Fe...and it starts on Monday.
So, yeah...I'm moving to New Mexico tomorrow. JenMarie will be following behind shortly thereafter upon completing her semester at Naropa. Short notice, I know...but them's the breaks.
The new mailing address for Fact-Simile Editions is:
129 West Coronado St.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Needless to say, we will miss our Denver friends! That said, we are very excited to explore our new community, so if anybody has any good leads on the art and literature scene down there, please send them our way!
-Travis
Well, I finally found it. And it's a good one. Only problem is: it's in Santa Fe...and it starts on Monday.
So, yeah...I'm moving to New Mexico tomorrow. JenMarie will be following behind shortly thereafter upon completing her semester at Naropa. Short notice, I know...but them's the breaks.
The new mailing address for Fact-Simile Editions is:
129 West Coronado St.
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Needless to say, we will miss our Denver friends! That said, we are very excited to explore our new community, so if anybody has any good leads on the art and literature scene down there, please send them our way!
-Travis
Thursday, October 23, 2008
THIS IS NOT A READING, November 10th
ONOMATO-[pin-yacht-AAHHH!]
Please join the Editors of Fact-Simile Editions for a fun-filled evening of nefarious noises at The Larimer Lounge, Monday November 10th, at 8pm.
Kurt Schwitters. John Cage. Harry Partch. Do you know what I mean? If so, we want YOU! Or maybe you play the bassoon. Maybe you're a bat-man fan dying to do your best Adam West impersonation. If not, that's okay too...maybe you have a crazy hidden noise-talent that you never before had a venue for. We want you too.
If you DO have a noise or two that you'd like to share with the group, please email your ideas to TRAVIS@FACT-SIMILE.COM for consideration. We will make every attempt to accommodate every single conceivable notion proposed.
And yes...THERE WILL BE A PINATA!
All audience members and participants are strongly encouraged to bring a small, legal, non-lethal, light and sharpless object to contribute to the Pinata.
Sincerely,
The Editors
Fact-Simile Editions
WWW.FACT-SIMILE.COM
travis@fact-simile.com
Please join the Editors of Fact-Simile Editions for a fun-filled evening of nefarious noises at The Larimer Lounge, Monday November 10th, at 8pm.
Kurt Schwitters. John Cage. Harry Partch. Do you know what I mean? If so, we want YOU! Or maybe you play the bassoon. Maybe you're a bat-man fan dying to do your best Adam West impersonation. If not, that's okay too...maybe you have a crazy hidden noise-talent that you never before had a venue for. We want you too.
If you DO have a noise or two that you'd like to share with the group, please email your ideas to TRAVIS@FACT-SIMILE.COM for consideration. We will make every attempt to accommodate every single conceivable notion proposed.
And yes...THERE WILL BE A PINATA!
All audience members and participants are strongly encouraged to bring a small, legal, non-lethal, light and sharpless object to contribute to the Pinata.
Sincerely,
The Editors
Fact-Simile Editions
WWW.FACT-SIMILE.COM
travis@fact-simile.com
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Short Lehman Brothers Film
I thought maybe everyone would enjoy this artistic interpretation of the current financial crisis that I found on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A94ZINn4PuM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A94ZINn4PuM
Monday, September 22, 2008
Quote of the Day
"Treasury’s 840-word legislative bailout proposal comes to more than $830 million per word...when they come up with a title, that will drive the average dollar per word down."
-Stephen Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense
-Stephen Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Laws of Economic Conservation
The law of ENERGY conservation states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
Unfortunately for those of us living in America today, the same cannot be said for money. They print that shit every single day.
Ironically enough, if the current economic trends are any indication, all that the American dollar will be good for pretty soon is wiping our sorry national ass in polite preparation for China's economic cock. But if we're making more money every day, you ask, where does it all go? It wasn't so very long ago that American wealth was a worldwide benchmark of prosperity. What, exactly, has happened in the interim?
A few decades back, as some of you will remember, our good buddy Dick Nixon gave the slip to direct economic representation through the gold standard. This turned the dollar, indeed money-at-large, into a much more fluid entity, open to freer and faster speculation. Since that fateful day, the American dollar has been dancing ever closer to the precipice of unsustainable growth. The recent collapse of some of our nation's most stalwart financial institutions (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) is merely a symptom of this viral expansion of wealth.
Now, I know you're wondering to yourself: EXPANSION of wealth?! Why haven't I seen a piece of that sweet apple pie yet? I like pie just as much (if not more) than the next CEO. Where do I find my slice?
Well, the sad fact of the matter is this: unless you've been sinking the entirety of your minimum wage paychecks into the market and living on soybeans harvested from your basement, you won't be getting a taste any time soon. We have vague corporate entities to thank for this.
The corporation was born in post-colonial America on the basic premise that a company's only responsibility is to the checkbook of its shareholders from which said company is (at least on paper) comprised. For more on this, please see "The Corporation" a well thought-out documentary that addresses this notion more fully than the space of this blog will allow.
This idea of responsibility forms the very foundation of "free" market capitalism in America. The idea being, that the market is a self-regulating entity inherently incapable of another collapse like that of The Great Depression. To put it simply: In Market Forces (not God) We Now Trust.
The problem with this structured system of faith (or one of the many at least) is that for several decades, if not more, the higher-ups of corporate America have been paying themselves increasingly exorbitant salaries to oversee the meager investments of most Americans. Now, I'm all for lining the pockets of vested interest with the motley cloth of American manpower...I mean, who isn't? But the fact of the matter is, in order to justify their increasingly bloated salaries and lobbyist kickbacks, these very same corporate executives have been pressuring their respective accounting departments to err on the side of expansion. Let me explain:
There are a number of "acceptable" accounting processes and methods of calculation available to any savvy CPA, each portraying the "true" financial picture of a given company's given assets and growth patterns differently. These processes may be broken down into three basic categories: a)conservative b) moderate and c) extremist. Each of these categorical practices, when applied, will yield a much different picture of the given company's economic health.
Now, a "responsible" accountant will mix these methods periodically in order to present a healthy, balanced picture of sustainable company growth. Unfortunately for the American people, the current corporate accounting practices, in order to show continuous increases to their shareholders, have been stuck on option C for far too long. This means that all of these generous little over-estimates have accumulated, avalanche style, creating an actuality vacuum on the books of investment banks and other speculative enterprises like the recently fallen mortgage giants.
So who should bear this multi-billion dollar cross whose total cost conveniently equals that of the Iraq war and its aftermath? Well, George Bush Jr. thinks it should be you.
Mr. Bush presented a whopping 3 page piece of legislation to Congress today that effectively states this burden should fall, once again, squarely on the shoulders of the American Taxpayer...to the tune of $2,000 for each and every one of us!
This little gem, of course, coming as it does on the heels of Mr. Bush's "economic revitalization package," which put a tidy sum of $600 in each of our leaky pockets (actually, as a freelancer, my government "gift" only came to $300) should revitalize the worldwide economy. Right. One has to wonder if that $600 apiece would have been better spent staving off the current crisis rather than shoring up republican support for the coming election.
And what of the fact that the government now owns your mortgage debt? Can you say conflict of interest? I knew you could! What will this do to the idea of eminent domain in America?
Furthermore, whose to say that this unprecedented injection of government cash into the "free" market economy will even stop the problem upon us? It seems to me that giving a blood transfusion to a body riddled with bullet holes doesn't do much good unless the entry and exit wounds are first sewn up and packed with gauze. But it's worth a try, right? I mean, it's better than the alternative: wait and see which way the 21st Century technological dust bowl will blow!
Yes, we must, of course, and ad the very least TRY to save our drowning economy. Just not with MY money, if I had any. Instead, I have what I believe to be a better solution:
I say we send every corporate executive and well-heeled politician, past and present, straight to Iraq to help build roads and dig irrigation canals. Their money (minus airfare, of course) would have to stay home and help US rebuild things here on OUR soil. For safety's sake, we'll let their families stay behind and live, like so many honest Americans, on the public welfare system that corporate economic policies and outright political collusion have stripped bare.
It seems fair to me. But that's just one taxpayer's opinion.
Unfortunately for those of us living in America today, the same cannot be said for money. They print that shit every single day.
Ironically enough, if the current economic trends are any indication, all that the American dollar will be good for pretty soon is wiping our sorry national ass in polite preparation for China's economic cock. But if we're making more money every day, you ask, where does it all go? It wasn't so very long ago that American wealth was a worldwide benchmark of prosperity. What, exactly, has happened in the interim?
A few decades back, as some of you will remember, our good buddy Dick Nixon gave the slip to direct economic representation through the gold standard. This turned the dollar, indeed money-at-large, into a much more fluid entity, open to freer and faster speculation. Since that fateful day, the American dollar has been dancing ever closer to the precipice of unsustainable growth. The recent collapse of some of our nation's most stalwart financial institutions (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) is merely a symptom of this viral expansion of wealth.
Now, I know you're wondering to yourself: EXPANSION of wealth?! Why haven't I seen a piece of that sweet apple pie yet? I like pie just as much (if not more) than the next CEO. Where do I find my slice?
Well, the sad fact of the matter is this: unless you've been sinking the entirety of your minimum wage paychecks into the market and living on soybeans harvested from your basement, you won't be getting a taste any time soon. We have vague corporate entities to thank for this.
The corporation was born in post-colonial America on the basic premise that a company's only responsibility is to the checkbook of its shareholders from which said company is (at least on paper) comprised. For more on this, please see "The Corporation" a well thought-out documentary that addresses this notion more fully than the space of this blog will allow.
This idea of responsibility forms the very foundation of "free" market capitalism in America. The idea being, that the market is a self-regulating entity inherently incapable of another collapse like that of The Great Depression. To put it simply: In Market Forces (not God) We Now Trust.
The problem with this structured system of faith (or one of the many at least) is that for several decades, if not more, the higher-ups of corporate America have been paying themselves increasingly exorbitant salaries to oversee the meager investments of most Americans. Now, I'm all for lining the pockets of vested interest with the motley cloth of American manpower...I mean, who isn't? But the fact of the matter is, in order to justify their increasingly bloated salaries and lobbyist kickbacks, these very same corporate executives have been pressuring their respective accounting departments to err on the side of expansion. Let me explain:
There are a number of "acceptable" accounting processes and methods of calculation available to any savvy CPA, each portraying the "true" financial picture of a given company's given assets and growth patterns differently. These processes may be broken down into three basic categories: a)conservative b) moderate and c) extremist. Each of these categorical practices, when applied, will yield a much different picture of the given company's economic health.
Now, a "responsible" accountant will mix these methods periodically in order to present a healthy, balanced picture of sustainable company growth. Unfortunately for the American people, the current corporate accounting practices, in order to show continuous increases to their shareholders, have been stuck on option C for far too long. This means that all of these generous little over-estimates have accumulated, avalanche style, creating an actuality vacuum on the books of investment banks and other speculative enterprises like the recently fallen mortgage giants.
So who should bear this multi-billion dollar cross whose total cost conveniently equals that of the Iraq war and its aftermath? Well, George Bush Jr. thinks it should be you.
Mr. Bush presented a whopping 3 page piece of legislation to Congress today that effectively states this burden should fall, once again, squarely on the shoulders of the American Taxpayer...to the tune of $2,000 for each and every one of us!
This little gem, of course, coming as it does on the heels of Mr. Bush's "economic revitalization package," which put a tidy sum of $600 in each of our leaky pockets (actually, as a freelancer, my government "gift" only came to $300) should revitalize the worldwide economy. Right. One has to wonder if that $600 apiece would have been better spent staving off the current crisis rather than shoring up republican support for the coming election.
And what of the fact that the government now owns your mortgage debt? Can you say conflict of interest? I knew you could! What will this do to the idea of eminent domain in America?
Furthermore, whose to say that this unprecedented injection of government cash into the "free" market economy will even stop the problem upon us? It seems to me that giving a blood transfusion to a body riddled with bullet holes doesn't do much good unless the entry and exit wounds are first sewn up and packed with gauze. But it's worth a try, right? I mean, it's better than the alternative: wait and see which way the 21st Century technological dust bowl will blow!
Yes, we must, of course, and ad the very least TRY to save our drowning economy. Just not with MY money, if I had any. Instead, I have what I believe to be a better solution:
I say we send every corporate executive and well-heeled politician, past and present, straight to Iraq to help build roads and dig irrigation canals. Their money (minus airfare, of course) would have to stay home and help US rebuild things here on OUR soil. For safety's sake, we'll let their families stay behind and live, like so many honest Americans, on the public welfare system that corporate economic policies and outright political collusion have stripped bare.
It seems fair to me. But that's just one taxpayer's opinion.
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