Talk about coincidences. Here’s a few. After Feral House released Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., in 1992, many readers got quite excited. Practically nothing was actually known about Wood’s life; author Rudolph Grey spent more than a decade tracking down the amazing stories, and I helped Rudolph stitch them [...]

For the past couple weeks we have been working with the great designer Sean Tejaratchi on the 2012 catalogues for Feral House and Process Media. A huge question was how to fit all the titles and covers into a 16-page Feral House catalogue and 8-page Process Media catalogue.  The answer for the FH catalogue was [...]

Is it possible that I stare at my laptop long enough every day to have become uncomfortable with the task of looking at printed newspapers and books? Does it matter that images are reproduced much more sharply on a book than a computer screen? Has it made much of a difference to the public-at-large that [...]

On the day of the death of Christopher Hitchens, who lately became a United States citizen, was the passage of a new law in which any accused American could be jailed for the rest of his or her life without so much as a trial. In his alcohol-laden final decades, the very clever Hitchens, who [...]

While scouring an interesting second-hand store in Seattle in the ’90s, we discovered an elaborate uniform worn about a century ago by a Knight Templar. The suit included an elaborate array of belts and sashes, a thousand small buttons, and a feathery hat, which I later discovered was called a “Chapeaux.” The Chapeaux’s feathers were [...]

Hey boys, so you can bench press a few hundred pounds. So fucking what. Underestimate at your peril the bitch power of women as they create and destroy while your head hangs among many others in their necklace. This season, Feral House and Process Media offer two different titles from modern Kali-Yugas. One is called [...]

Lately, we’ve been collating and selecting images for a coming title called Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society, a Visual Guide. This book has strangely become an unexpected lesson in the sado-masochistic rituals practiced in Masonic and other fraternal initiation ceremonies. Several factories manufactured the paraphernalia involved to threaten and humiliate new [...]

You know how it works. After every interview you think of a thousand things you wanted to say but got too polite or otherwise sidetracked. BoingBoing.net now has a podcast (“Gweek”) that you can pick up through iTunes or through their site. Yesterday Mark Frauenfelder’s interview with me and Jodi Wille, co-founder of Process Media, [...]