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OVO 13

January 1992. 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

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Magic Carpet Priest

Corporate Breakfast

Lunch

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Annotations

OVO 13 was first published in 1992. The information on page two is accurate but it is unlikely that any of the addresses seen elsewhere in this issue are still valid.

ovo1301 – Front Cover. The Volkswagen image comes from a button catalogue. I don't remember where the image of the bicycle comes from. Both were personal symbols of controlling ones own destiny when I was young, and self-direction was the kind of travel that this issue of OVO was about.

ovo1302 – Indicia. I don't remember where the image of the tricycle came from.

ovo1303 – Introduction. Here I announced I would be moving to Portland, starting a BBS and publishing books. I did move to Portland, I made Web sites instead of a BBS and I wrote books: not bad! I also announced that I would cease publication of OVO, which turns out to not be the case. I only took a break.

ovo1304 through ovo1305 – Interview with Jennifer Murrian. The influence of reading J. G. Ballard is plain. More bicycle images from unremembered sources.

ovo1306 through ovo1308 – The Psychotopography of Disneyland by Ignatz Topo. This analysis of an early situationist text through the lens of Disneyland is one of the first published examples of what was later called Ride Theory (see Dan Howland's Journal of Ride Theory Omnibus). Charles Fort also wrote about ideas occurring as if on a schedule in many places at once: he called it 'steam engine time.' All graphics by Ignatz Topo.

ovo1310 through ovo1312 – Interview with Yael Ruth Dragwyla. This interview was transcribed from a telephone call. When Yael describes how to learn about a place she suggests going to the library: it is much more likely now that she would suggest going online. I have succeeded in remembering to look at my hands in a dream, and I have succeeded in looking at my hands in a dream. Yael later wrote the 'Brag of the Female SubGenius,' which had a significant influence on the Church of the SubGenius. She later disavowed the Church as being the work of an evil magician who had caused her cat to die. I do believe that if you think intently about something you will 'go there' in your dreams. But I have more faith in seeing something beyond my body's capacity by way of television than by astral travel. Yael and Hakim Bey hosted the Astral Convention in 1988. I said I couldn't go because I didn't believe in astral travel, and instead suggested they hold the convention inside my head so I could at least watch. This comment was quoted by Hakim Bey in the rare book Akashic Record of the Astral Convention, A.A.A.Z. Contributors to this book include Peter Cristopherson, John Balance, Hakim Bey, Yael Dragwyla, James Koenline, Tutor Turtle, Ivan Stang, Feral Faun, David Crowbar and others.

ovo1313 through ovo1340 – Calendar. Like most of this issue, I didn't invest as much effort as I could to make this good idea come across well: the calendar looks sloppy. Note there are no holidays in the OVO calendar. Some of those collages are now lost.

ovo1341 - Index, Table of Contents and Reference.

ovo1342 – Received. Kooks was published by Donna Kossy. I contributed an essay on Iben Browning to the book compiled from issues of Kooks (Feral House 1994).

ovo1343 through ovo1348 – Catalogue. Orders for OVO were increasing enough to cause me to think a more detailed catalogue was in order. But this was not the case; I was the only one taking OVO that serious. But this catalogue has some good bibliographical data in it. At the time I thought OVO CASSETTE ENGINE looked the best, but now I think issues 10-14 look better. OCE just cost the most to produce, that's all. I don't recall why I said this issue was going to be reviewed in the Film Threat Video Guide, or whether it was or not. Film Threat editor Chris Gore may have suggested this was going to happen. One of the readers of my essay in Anarchy and the End of History pointed out that I had asked 'if anarchism is such a good idea, why don't people accept it' – and then failed to answer my own question. Having that challenge put before me led me to spend several years defining what anarchism is, which then allowed me to ask if I was an anarchist. I ended up talking myself out of anarchism, and I have George Walford to thank for that. I thanked him by making a Web site about his work, which can be viewed at http://www.gwiep.net/. In Three Fisted Tales of “Bob” I was paid at the same rate as all the other contributors (including Robert Anton Wilson, John Shirley, Paul Mavrides, Mark Mothersbaugh and William S. Burroughs); I made $12.50 from that book. Selling books and magazines through the mail on a small scale then was helpful years later when I had a successful but short lived mail order book business.

ovo1349 – PLN Benefit Tape Advertisement. Two copies of this tape sold, but one of the buyers sent in not $5.00 but $100.00 in support of Prisoner's Legal News. This was definitely a successful project. It was through this project that I learned I was under surveillance. I received mail at two post office boxes, one for OVO and one for other projects such as this one. There was no name or home address common to either – they were completely distinct as far as the Post Office was concerned. But one day I received a letter addressed to one post office box at the other post office box. Either (a) wild coincidence placed it there or (b) someone was going through all my mail and when they were done had it sent to the wrong final address. My car was being broken into every few weeks but nothing was being taken. I was getting hang-up calls night and day (to check if I was in?). What it all meant I never learned, and if the surveillance continued when I moved to Portland it was carried out by more subtle hands and eyes.

ovo1350 – Advertisements to reprint in other zines. No one ever did.

ovo1351 – Paid advertisement.

ovo1352 – Back Cover.

Magic Carpet – Collage.

Priest – Collage.

Corporate – Collage.

Breakfast – Collage.

Lunch – Collage.

mmb1 and mmb2 – Merlin's Music Box. Bill Babouris, editor of In Extremis, also wrote for the Greek magazine Merlin's Music Box. These two pages review OVO.

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