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OVO 9

May 1991. 12 pages, 8.5 inches by 5.5 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 9 was first published in 1991. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo0901- Cover.

ovo0902 – Introduction. OVO acquired a masthead in this issue.

ovo0903 through ovo0905 – Received. The story of Pagan and Virginia's trip to Knoxville mentioned here was published in her book Zine (St. Martin's Press).

ovo0906 – Tendency.

ovo0907 – Review of Anarchist's Guide to the BBS. I was shocked that a 'real' publisher would send me books to review, but took it as a sign that as I took myself more seriously that others would as well.

ovo0908 – Anonymous art.

ovo0909 - Advertisements. This 'man in black' appeared six years before the movie Men in Black. Men in Black was written by my friend Lowell Cunningham. One day he bought some comic books from a store I worked at. After he read them, he said to himself 'I can do better than that.' He wrote his first comic book script and mailed it to his favorite company; they bought it. It ran as a three-issue series and was successful enough to be reprinted. I offered to show Lowell some of my books and magazines that included claims about the men in black but he declined – he said that by avoiding other people's ideas of the men in black, he could insure he was the owner of the ideas and stories he wrote. The reprint was successful enough to justify a second three-issue series, and then all six issues were collected into a book. At about this time Lowell was contacted by Hollywood. His story was purchased and made into two successful films, an animated series and any number of promotional products. Because he'd avoided my helpful offer of reading about the men in black he owned all the stories and characters, and because he said 'I can do better than that' he, in fact, did. A lesson to be learned. Lowell scanned some pictures for use in later issues of OVO.

ovo0910 and ovo0911 – Catalogue. Graphic on ovo0815 produced on the Commodore 64.

ovo0912 - Back Cover. This copy kindly donated by the recipient for this project.

self1990 – Self portrait in attic apartment. One of the best apartments I ever lived in was the attic to an old house in the Fort Saunders area of Knoxville, Tennessee. The rent was all of $190/month and it had the best view of downtown in the entire city. There was hardly a right angle in the entire apartment, and while taller friends had to stoop it fit me just right. The windows were not only open all year long but I removed them; no matter how cold it was outside, my apartment stayed very warm from the apartments below and the roof just above. Bugs never flew in but birds did once or twice a year. I would have stayed there much longer but the manager told us the building was condemned. After we all left, he rented it out again but for even less. Then one night it burned to the ground. Everyone was out of the building. This occurred one Summer when there were many examples of fires caused by 'landlord lightning.'

Dreamachine – Photographs. These photographs are of my bookshelf in the attic apartment. In the center on the top shelf is my Dreamachine, as described in OVO 7.

ndf1990dec – Collage, 5.5 by 8.5 inches. The National Democratic Front was a white power group in Knoxville. I think they were tied to White Aryan Resistance. This poster is made up only of elements found in a poster from the National Socialist Liberation Front (see page 192 of Apocalypse Culture). The idea was to use the language of one Nazi group against another; an idea that the wording of poster itself suggested. My anarchist friends thought it was a bad idea. In the end, it is doubtful it had much of an effect on anyone.

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