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OVO 11

September 1991. 200 numbered copies. 52 pages, 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches. Black & white photocopy.

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

Publisher/Editor: Trevor Blake

About OVO

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OVO 11 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.

ovo1101 – Front Cover. Pen and ink drawing by Jim Ellis.

ovo1102 – Editorial. This was the first issue of OVO produced on a PC: an IBM XT with 640K of memory, VGA graphics, and 20 MB hard drive. The computer used a dot-matrix printer and Geos Ensemble software for text and graphics. I asked for my readers to join a typing pool to transcribe interesting texts into computers “for trade purposes.” Hundreds of others were thinking along the same lines for BBS, and thousands more joined us later on the Internet. The black band on the page edge of this issue was inspired by the indexing marks in the Industrial Culture issue of Re/Search, but changed from an fore edge index to a controlling belt around the middle of the zine. I don't remember the source for the building floor plan shown throughout this issue.

ovo1103 – Introduction. Asking whether we know what is best for ourselves, and whether we do what is best for ourselves, are still questions worth asking. But asking questions is insufficent in itself.

ovo1104 through ovo1110 – The Real Reason for Gun Ownership by The Company of Freemen. Reprinted from the 1990 Main Catalogue of Loompanics Unlimited.

ovo1111 through ovo 1115 – Evil Eye by Hakim Bey. Ink drawings by Trevor Blake. As far as I know, this essay appears here for the first time and has not yet appeared in any book.

ovo1115 – Review of Surviving in Prison by Harold Long. The second time a publisher honored me by sending a book to review.

ovo1116 through ovo1118 – Interview. This interview was published at a time (1991) and in a place (Knoxville, Tennessee) when 'shop talk' about sexual deviancy seemed exceptionally scarce. The graphics are advertisements from a local newspaper.

ovo1118 – Review of The Idle Warriors by Kerry Thornley. Another book from another publisher, sent to me for free to review. As I began to take OVO more seriously, others did as well – I hope they sold a book or two because of my reviews.

ovo1119 through ovo1128 – The Psychiatric Holocaust by Peter Breggin. Because this essay is likely to be copyrighted, it is not included in this public domain edition.

ovo1129 through ovo1135 – Interview with Melissa. Pen and ink drawing on ovo1134 by Trevor Blake. Collage on ovo1135 from a coloring book. This interview with a friend about her eating disorder made an impression on many readers. What I thought I knew about eating disorders and television has changed since this interview was published. Graphics scanned by Lowell Cunningham.

ovo1136 – Drugs.

ovo1137 though ovo1141 – Warbucks Intra-Family Communique by Ernest Mann. Ernest Mann advocated refusing to take pay for one's work, with the idea that if everyone worked for free then the need to charge for goods and services (and scarcity of goods and services) would vanish, bringing universal prosperity. After decades of publishing his own newsletter and two books, Ernest Mann was murdered by his grandson in the 1990s.

ovo1142 through ovo1146 – Interview with V. Vale of Re/Search. I have seen interviews with Vale published after this but I have yet to see one published before. In the interview I mention that the office of AIDS Response Knoxville was fire bombed: Vale said that wasn't reported on the West Coast. It is still the case that Christian terrorism is underreported in the United States. The Internet now offers the kind of 'clipping service' for underreported news that Vale wished for, but access to the 'real' news has not changed the masses (“this kind of control mentality will apparently always be with us... “). In May 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured by a bomb that exploded in their car. They were accused by the FBI of being responsible for the bomb. Judi had died from cancer in March 1997, but her family and friends kept the case alive. In August 2002 they were awarded $4.4 million in their civil rights lawsuit against the FBI: the court determined they had been framed. Jock Sturges was arrested for 'child pornography' in April 1990 but the case against him was dismissed a year later. In the mid 1990s Christian groups caused 'child pornography' charges to be brought against the book chain Barnes & Noble for stocking work by Sturges. Vale himself copy-edited this interview but I can claim all the remaining errors for my own.

ovo1147– Index and References.

ovo1148– Received.

ovo1149– Catalogue.

ovo1150– Ads to be reprinted in other zines. Never happened.

ovo1151– Paid Advertisement. Someone actually paid me money to advertise in my zine.

ovo1152– Back Cover.

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