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Now that Ritual America has returned from the printer, Feral Friday 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 [...]
As you know, many people believe that December 2012 is The End. The Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses haven’t bought into that date, so why should we? The 2012 catalogues for Feral House and Process Media prove that we are optimistic enough to believe that technology will not totally fail, and that people will [...]
This March the SXSW film festival will be world premiering THE SOURCE, the long-awaited documentary on Los Angeles’ fabled cult-commune the Source Family for their Documentary Feature Competition! THE SOURCE is one of only eight films chosen from over 840 to compete for awards. The film was directed by Process Media Co-founder Jodi Wille and commercial director Maria Demopoulos, [...]
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 [...]
The booming trumpet of the Apocalypse? Some weird governmental machination like HAARP? Hoaxers? WTF? Friends were calling my attention to various YouTube posts from various countries that present strange and unsettling boomy and distant sounds. Pranksters love posting things like this to laugh at the gullibility of the public. I now gladly add to this [...]
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 [...]
This is Brian Swibel, the producer of the upcoming HBO television series based on the Feral House book Big Dead Place. Sopranos star James Gandolfini is set to produce the show, read more HERE!
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 [...]
Where do books go when they die? You may say the recycling bins or the county dump. But sometimes they make it to the book purgatory. Maybe they get resold online, or at library sales, where they might be carted away $2 a bag. Perhaps they were left out in front of a used bookstore [...]
