Ben is Dead, Summer 1993

Includes an interview with Burroughs, “Q&A w/W.S.B.”, by Mark Ewert (Burroughs' final lover), pp. 79-80.  A Burroughs quote also can be located at the bottom of page 21.

Published in Hollywood, CA. by Ben is Dead in Summer of 1993.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf IV.167
• Schottlaender v4.C626
• Raven 19930700BIDE.0.0, b3

Contents:

• Mark Ewert:
• "Would You Kiss Me?" (essay on Mark Gonzalez, skateboarder)
• "Q & A w/ W.S.B." (interview with Burroughs)
• book reviews
• Michael Carr:
• "FUCKed!" (on LAPD raid on Club FUCK, L.A.)
• "Communicable Diseases: Infecting the Established Media" (interview with Douglas Rushkoff)
• "General Magic: Corporate Polygamy Spawning Illusory Technology Destined to Change Our Lives" (essay)
• Darby:
• "The Jane Pratt Experience" (on Jane Pratt)
• "Dining on Planet Earth: Kerin and Darby meet Duran Duran" (interview)
• "Slug" (interview)
• "The Zine Revolution: Is Factsheet Five Still It's [sic] Definitive Guide?" (interview with R. Seth Friedman)
• "Hating Band Names" (essay)
• music reviews
• Kerin, Darby, and Peter: "Skatenigs" (interview)
• Darby and Destiny Itano: "Destinys Trip" (essay)
• Reverend Al Cacophony: "T-Shirt Lexicology of the Extreme Right" (essay)
• Saint Teresa Stone & Paul Iannone: "Street Postering: Alternative Communication & Social Oppression" (interviews with Chris Crass, Bob Z., Robbie Conal, Frank Kozik)
• Paul Iannone:
• "Sound" (essay)
• "Smell" (essay)
• "Sixth Sense" (essay)
• "Touch" (essay)
• "Taste" (essay)
• "Speech" (essay)
• "'%&*#@!'" The Xit on Xex Xlang" (essay on sex slang)
• Dave Ehrlich: "Fastbacks" (interview)
• Kevin Morataya: "Music Conventions: Right on Key or in Need of Tuning?" (essay)
• Nina Dentata:
• "The Future Fix: Psychicholics Anonymous" (on psychics)
• "No Means No: English Made Simple for Rapists and Other Morons" (essay)
• John Lewis and Rich Amtower: "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted: A Conversation with Ian Reed" (interview)
• unknown:
• "Offworld: Part Two: Getting Busted" (on an FBI bust of the Offworld BBS)
• "Perpetual Cyber Jack-Off" (interview with Mark Frauenfelder, Lisa Palac, and R.U. Sirius)
• Cliff Thurber: "Beyond the Valley of the Home Shopping Dolls" (essay)
• Ethan Port: "Telephone Voice BBS Systems" (essay)
• Elizabeth M. Reid: "Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat" (essay)
• Don Lewis: "The Backpack Loudspeaker: Louder than God" (interview with Seemen)
• Kitty Lu Kemia (Michael Carr): "What You Say?" (essay on sex slang)
• Michelle Anderson: comics reviews
• Carla Bozulich and Dame Darcy: "The Sparkle Jewel" (poetry, prose, drawings)
• Alan Anderson: "Copyright Law: Reproductive Rights in the Electronic Age" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Darby
• Publisher: Darby
• Layout: Darby
• Assistant Editor: Kerin Morataya, Michael Carr
• Artist: Don Lewis
• Cover: Scott Urlich