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Get Your Pitchfork On! is born

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My friends, as many of you know, Kristy Athens’ Get Your Pitchfork On! is in the world! If you are unfamiliar the book gives urbanites the practical tools they need to realize their own dreams of getting away from it all, with the basics of home, farm, and hearth. We wanted to share some important websites along with [...]

Ulterior Motive

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A friend called me the other day to tell me that a guy named Mark Dery insulted me in a book titled I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. Yes, Mark Dery, the guy whose review of Apocalypse Culture for the LA Weekly in the early ’90s was more of a personal insult rather than a critique. [...]

eBook Collusion

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The Department of Justice served Apple and a few actual publishers with a suit on eBook price-fixing charges. Here’s the point of view from a small publisher: The “collusion” accusation mystifies us. We’ve always been at the short end of the deal, and told what to do by the big gorillas in the room, Amazon [...]

When Everything is a Conspiracy, Little is True.

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Among Feral House’s and Process Media’s wide-ranging array of titles are some conspiratorial books looking into the Oklahoma City Bombing and many other questionable aspects of the establishment line.  For The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, we were sued for libel by Oliver “Buck” Revell, the FBI’s Deputy Chief. We were prepared to [...]

Attraction Attracts

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The pitch began in 2006 and levitated as the result of viral online videos, word of mouth through yoga classes, and appearances on Oprah. The dissatisfied were open to being sold on the idea about how they could become happy and procure all they ever wanted. The Secret, perhaps the hugest marketing phenomenon of modern [...]

Ritual America and the source family event reminder

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Don’t forget to come to this amazing Feral/Process event in Austin. There will be a full moon for this one: Adam Parfrey, Jodi Wille, Isis Aquarian & Electricity Aquarian A reading, presentation and discussion about secret societies, cults, Father Yod, The Source Family and YaHoWa13, The Law of Attraction, sex magic and much more… Thursday, [...]

Prepare yourself, Austin!

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Austin, TX, we love you. Yes we do. Filled up the Dobie Theater to its capacity back in ’91 or ’92, and spoke in a stadium mascot uniform. Chicken Little, specifically, since the lecture was about Apocalypse Culture. Frank Kozik did the poster: a Nazi minister with red Shriner clown nose. Twenty years later, we’re [...]

Expanding Mind Interview with Adam Parfrey

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The Progressive Radio Network brings you an edition of Expanding Mind with Erik Davis and Process Media author Maja D’Aoust. They conduct an in depth interview with Feral House honcho Adam Parfrey about punk publishing, the Process Church, and the new Feral House release he co-authored, Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American [...]

Red Men or No Red Men?

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Now that Ritual America has returned from the printer, we will in turn focus on our favorite bits of fraternal weirdness these coming weeks. Pictured above is the Los Gatos, CA branch of The Improved Order of the Red Men in 1905… although these caucasians met as “tribes” in “wigwams” and costumed themselves as Indians, and [...]

Optimistic: Why Not?

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As you know, many people believe that December 2012 will usher in some form of The End. But Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses haven’t bought into that date, so why should we? Process Media’s 2012 catalogue has just appeared, and is easily downloaded HERE. This is evidence of our belief that many people will [...]