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WAG THE TAILRumor campaigns. Savage upbringings way down South. Cash-bloated campaigns for supremacy. Fatal poisonings. Nah, we're not talking about the Papacy under the Borgias. We're talking about the Westminster Kennel Club Championships, the premier dog show in the world. In a Mumblage Exclusive (tm), correspondent Mattathias Schwartz talked with the proud owner of Sammy, upset winner of this year's German Shepherd run-off, to uncover this famed event's murky underbelly! The Nation of Ulysses: Respect is due. Back in the day, revolutionary leader Ian Svenonius discussed the meaning of Ulysses with one eager little Lamb. Through the veil of years, feel the testimony of punk's supreme soviet of style. Les DeGroot: The satellites are watching. And waiting. To serve man....for fucking lunch. Traitor-genius Les DeGroot hears the hidden broadcast and tells Julian Bolton, one-time high school journalism mad dog, what the DoD wants with your microwave. Is he insane? You be the judge. Ramon Mercader: Who? The world's least known assassin carried out one the most well known assassinations. Dan Engler details Trotsky's demise and the man who sent him to his maker. Greg Sage: Northwest punk rock practically birthed, fully formed, from the forehead of the Wipers' legendary lead singer. Sage breaks down the DNA of Portland's secret rock and roll spinal cord. John Shirley: The godfather of cyberpunk fiction recalls the days when the first wave crashed into sleepy Portland. Flash back to the days before the AD ASTRA, EVERYMAN! Brian Walker has a very simple message for NASA: Shove it. This Bend, Oregon astroman is thinking and building big, hammering together a rocket in his backyard, one eye on the edge of space and the other on a future of zero-G liberty as an orbital freeholder. The inventor, gadget guy and erstwhile loser talks to Mumblage about the finer points of shadetree rocketry. THE SLAVE CAMPS OF VORKUTA OR BUST! Brit author Colin Thubron has followed blood impetus of his people, travelling into Exotik & Spic'ed Landes and reporting back to the folks in Her Majesty's realm. What drives Thubron, though, is not some Kipling-esque White Man's Burden bullshit, but rather a genuine fascination with the foreign and an acute sensitivity to the poetry of the mundane and fantastic. In the thick of a publicity tour for In Siberia, a moving account of his voyage to the ass-end of Russia, he paused to ruminate with the Mumblage. The eXile Interview: Live from the Third Rome, Dan Engler chats with Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi, co-editors of the world's most outrageous newspaper. A Mumblage exclusive! Media Reviews: Review: There's another side to expat life in Moscow. The eXile's book will change your perception of Russia, Americans in Russia, and journalists the world over as it chronicles the history of what Zach Dundas called "the best newspaper in the world." Colums: |
Tramps Like Us Hey, it's not easy being a local government mandarin. In the course of your faceless bureaucratic existence, you win some and you lose some. Except you don't usually lose to a bunch of whores and johns. That's exactly what happened, however, when the City of Portland, Oregon tried to crack down on the city's full-throttle sex trade. Read about the triumph of the Sinners in the thrill Mumblage expose.... Pickled for the Proles: What keeps Lenin looking so...fresh? Dan Engler, co-sovereign of the Mumblage Experience and our own self-schooled Clown Prince of Sovietology, gets close enough to kiss the Revolutionary brow. Herein, he answers your darkest queries about Dr. Dubov and the secret lab beneath the Kremlin walls, where the Bodies aren't buried. The Manson Surfers: Some hear the call. Two men and their sick love affair with the Most Dangerous Man Alive. Andrew Vachss: Hot Biafra Nights Most people know Andrew Vachss as the hardest of the hardboiled--the two-fisted, brass-knuckled crime writer whose lean prose leaves tea-n-crumpets mystery aficinados quaking like jelly in their wingtips. Some know him as a crusading lawyer who hunts child molesters like a hellhound; others know him as a political crusader who influences national policy. But few know that, before all that, Vachss plunged headlong into Africa's heart of darkness. This Biafra didn't have a thing to do with jello, comrades.... The Ravaging
Traveler Dan Engler--On Collision Course With the World! The Ravaging Traveler, Part II: Sunny Southeast Asia In which Mumblage's adventurous Minister of Information plumbs the depths of Indonesia, parleys with sex-mad Thai cabbies and eats things you probably wouldn't. THE RAVAGING TRAVELER // PART THREE! The conclusion of Mumblage supremo Dan Engler's transglobal rampage, in which Our Hero ends up mostly nude with aged underworld kingpins, shaken down for nickels and dimes by Moscow cops and creeped out in Transylvania. Dig it. FEEL THE LOA, TASTE THE VISION VINE Zombis! Violence! Exhumed corpses! Ritual hallucinations in the depth of darkest South America! THE VISION VINE! Wade Davis, one-time enfant terrible and current elder statesman of gonzo anthropology, has seen them all. And, surprisingly, the author of the classic voodoo expose The Serpent and the Rainbow has survived with his sanity intact. Now dedicated to pushing the importance of cultural diversity in the face of the Great Monoculture, Davis expounded on the meaning of terror, serendipity and zombification in this talk with the Mumblage. The Hoax God Goes Nuclear: Ah, so you still believe everything you hear in the media? Find out just how easy it is to plant a completely bogus story from this strange tale of radio shock jocks, credulous TV talking heads, a phony fission reactor and a man who calls himself Harry Lime (sometimes). THE NOTORIOUS MICHAEL MOYNIHAN Is the author of the black metal expose Lords of Chaos and leader of the doom-dark band Blood Axis out to destroy America? Or just a nice guy with some kooky ideas? SPANISH BOMBS Remember the Spanish Civil War? And no, we don't mean if you remember it from Hemingway novels. Mumblage speaks with two Americans who fought Franco in the '30s.
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