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OVO 7

October 1989. Approximately 300 numbered copies. 84 pages. 11 inches by 8.5 inches. Black and white photocopy.

“At every turn in its thought, society will find us waiting.”

Publisher/Editor: Trevor Blake

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Annotations

OVO 7 was first published in 1989. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo0701 – Cover. Human cells infected with HIV.

Mind – collage. Not found in the original printing of OVO 7 but circa 1989. This collage appeared in Popular Reality and perhaps a few other places.

ovo0702 – Table of Contents.

ovo0703 – Muzak. Collage elements include the liner notes from Muzak LPs and a non-English language newspaper clipping I picked up at an assembly-line job.

ovo0704 – The 'I Am Deaf' card in the upper left was given to me by a peddler. Many years later I became a sign language interpreter. Ectoplasm photograph in the upper right (and all other ghostly imagery) from a friend, who gave me his 'occult' book collection when he got married. Text in lower right is from a book on prisons, but I don't remember the title or author.

ovo0705 – Copyrights. The most clear use of the OVOglyph as a symbol meaning 'the opposite of the copyright.' Center image possibly from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE.

ovo0706 – The image in the lower right is a woman's foot after a lifetime of binding. The text above that is from an unknown source.

ovo0707 – Collage by Tom Chan.

ovo0708 – A Gun is Pointed at His Head. This collage was inspired by the experience of a high school friend. My friend made a collage that included an image of a gun pointed at the first President Bush's head. A friend of his reported him to the Secret Service, who interviewed my friend and instructed him to destroy all copies of the collage. Every copy of my friend's collage was destroyed. I made this collage because I thought it was foolish to confuse an image with reality. No one yet asked me to destroy this collage.

ovo0709 through ovo0712 – Who Am I? by Jim Scianna. Background image is a poster visible in ovo0104.

ovo0713 – Dreamachine. Dreamachines produce visual hallucinations and altered states of consciousness without drugs. The experience lasts as long as the Dreamachine is used, and ends immediately when the Dreamachine is turned off or the user opens their eyes. There are no aftereffects or addictive qualities. A Dreamachine is the only visual art form that one enjoys with ones eyes closed. Dreamachines are easy to make, and instructions are easy to find.

ovo0714 through ovo0716 – The Meta-Network by Mike Gunderloy. The “international computerized telecommunications network” mentioned is a reference to the pre-Internet BBS network. His deliberate overuse of footnotes reads like a hyper linked document of today. Mike was entirely correct in listing his magazine Factsheet Five as the nexus for the meta-networks of the underground information economy. The questions asked in this essay are relevant still.

ovo0717 – Don't Talk to Cops by Robert Zeuner. This may or may not be sound legal advice; consult a professional before following any of the suggestions made here.

ovo0718 and ovo0719 – Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism by Hakim Bey. This article was produced with an electric typewriter. Essays on surrealism were hard to come by in 1989 (at least for me) and I was glad to have the chance to print one, even an argument against surrealism. This is the first appearance of this essay, later published in T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone.

ovo0720 – Drawing. Ink on paper. Typical of my drawing style, then and now.

ovo0721 through ovo0736 – Try to Remember Something About a Cat by Kerry Wendell Thornley. Ink on paper. Produced with an electric typewriter. Kerry sold book-length hand-written manuscripts for less than two dollars each. I bought several, and this is one of them. Kerry was a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald while the two were in the Marines. After Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, Kerry wrote a book about him. Kerry was later investigated as to why he wrote a book about Oswald before Oswald was accused of assassinating President Kennedy. Through this investigation and his own research, Kerry came to believe he was the next 'patsy' in line if the conspiracy behind JFK's death couldn't make it stick on Oswald. Kerry went on to co-found Discordianism with Greg Hill, which was in turn popularized by Robert Anton Wilson. I met Kerry through the Church of the SubGenius, at a time when Kerry was living under a bridge in Atlanta, Georgia.

ovo0725 - Reality Now was the main sponsor of the anarchist gathering described in OVO 5. Television in jail probably comes from the same police training manual I used in OVO 5.

ovo0729 - List of slang in the upper left is from a pulp crime magazine of the 1940s. 'Foodtown' advertisement is from an anonymous piece of mail art. Artist and author unknown for the 'Bell' text. Identification of mail bombs from the police training manual. Advertisement for bolo'bolo was my own. I once met bolo'bolo author PM. He happened to be there to meet with his publishers of semiotext(e), whom I was also visiting. We shared a meal, then spent some time assembling the inserts for semiotext(e) USA. I asked him to sign my copy of bolo'bolo; he said 'you know, in my country this book is illegal and none of my friends know that I have written it. This may be the first copy I have ever signed. Here, wait, let me find a good quote for you from the book. And I will sign it with my real name so that it will be more personal.”

ovo0732 - Am I Insane advertisement by Donna Kossy. Image below that from the Cottingly fairy photographs. OVO advertisement by me. Sound Choice printed an essay from OVO 1. Custom Screenprinting and Mutilation Graphics both sent me free t-shirts, and these ads were my thanks.

ovo0737 – Apple/Pineapple by Chris Cilla.

ovo0738 - Grey Area had, by this time, not only reprinted OVO 5 in its entirety but been influenced by the themes appearing in OVO. Zontar was one of the better zines I have read.

ovo0739 – Letter. Although Whittle declined their opportunity to hire me, they did contribute to the production and printing of OVO more than they ever knew.

ovo0740 and ovo0741 – Untitled by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE.

ovo0742 and ovo0743 – The Gentrification of Pain by A. Z. Dippe. Collage, pen, paper and glue. Whatever the source of this text was, I received it from the Temple of Psychic Youth. I retyped it on an electric typewriter to make it more visually interesting.

ovo0744 and ovo0745 – Liberating Wednesday by PM. This is the first and so far only time this essay by the author of bolo'bolo has been published. In a letter dated 16 June 1989, PM wrote “On the 'reformist' side one of my newer ideas was to push for a non-economic Wednesday [...] Feel free to use the idea and/or the text. It would be much better to write a text that fits in your specific situation, of course. I'm trying to spread the idea worldwide (together with bolo'bolo, it's all linked) [...] I hope your ovo-bolo will transform into a big bird, like an ostrich or so.” The idea of an annual 'buy nothing day' became popular years later, but liberating Wednesday is an idea fifty-two times as challenging.

ovo0746 – Alternative Abortions. Background image from 1940s true-crime magazine. This may or may not be sound medical advice; consult a professional before following any of the suggestions made here. In the late 1980s in Knoxville (and elsewhere) Christians were blockading women's clinics and threatening laws granting access to abortion. This essay was written with the sense that access to abortion was ending, and that alternatives needed to be available.

ovo0747 - 'Loose talk' image likely from The Grey Wolves. SubGenius advertisement from the SubGenius Foundation. Kidnap Call Report and office security checklist from sourced unknown.

ovo0748 and ovo0749 – Interview with Truth. Background image the same HIV infected cells as ovo0701. 'Truth is unique' and 'Truth speaks out' clips from The Pain Truth, a free magazine published by the World Wide Church of God. Smiling woman graphic from semiotext(e) USA. Radiation exposure graphic from sources unknown.

ovo0750 – Sound Cannon. Typed on an electric typewriter. As described in the essay, superior firepower wins the day when using sound as a weapon. The sound cannon was a complete success.

ovo0751 – We All Love Cop Cars. Images are from European sources.

ovo0752 through ovo0755 – Secret Theater. There was no circulation of air in Vatican Pizza, so the giant pizza ovens made the room exceptionally warm. The heat combined with alcohol and grinding industrial music at high volume created a fight one night; fists and broken bottles flew. Most of the tapes I showed have never been shown on television, even now, and some are no longer available in any form.

ovo0756 – First Letter. The first response I received from some of my earliest posters were threats from a Christian. It made me feel like buying my post office box was a good idea and that I was off to a good start by making the right people upset.

ovo0757 – Magazine Bibliography.

ovo0758 and ovo0759 – Miserablism and Anti-Miserablism in 1986 by Penelope Rosemont and Joseph Jablonski. Reprinted from the original handbill by Black Swan Press. I don't know that this essay by first-generation surrealists has been collected elsewhere.

ovo0760 - Digital Programmable Voice Scrambler from unknown source. Advertisement for Re/Search used a photocopied rubber skeleton as I did in OVO 4, but (unknown to me at the time) many years earlier.

ovo0761 – Collage by Ryan Gray.

ovo0762 – Collage by Mike Sonnie.

ovo0763 – Censorship. Typed on an electric typewriter. I don't remember where the text comes from. Did I write it? Did Karen Elliot? Is it a quote from a more famous source? I don't remember.

ovo0764 and ovo0766 – TDC Correspondence Rules by the Texas Department of Corrections. This contribution was sent to me to explain why OVO was not allowed into a Texas prison.

ovo0767 - Advice by Jeff Holland.

ovo0768 – Catalogue. There would indeed be OVO tattoos later on.

ovo0769 – OVO Gunstar Stencil. Text written on an electric typewriter. Graphic modeled after the logo for the Red Army Fraction. At least one t-shirt was made with this graphic on it.

ovo0770 - “Hello” text from same unknown source as the kidnap phone call check list. Security Regulations from a prison. “No Laundry” from source unknown. “Delinquent” graph from source unknown.

ovo0771 through ovo0779 – ACMTC. I felt sure at the time that the ACMTC was about to “pull a Jonestown” and self-destruct, but I was entirely incorrect.

ovo0780 and ovo 0781 – Lights = Camera = Action and Densest by Walter Alter. Background is television listing from local newspaper. This text was on the first I ever received on computer disk (a 5.25 inch floppy for PC, which I couldn't use for years). Walter also hosted one of the first BBS I ever called.

ovo0782 – Announcement. Top right graphic shows Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby. Caption from sources unknown. “I Love You” graphic is found art, with another caption from sources unknown.

ovo0783 – Index. Small graphics surrounding text generally the same as those found in OVO 4.

ovo0784 – Back Cover.

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