The Fool, Issue 1 ("Holiday Issue"), January 1, 2000

Issue created for the "Holy Fools Week – Big Beat Roadshow Vortex 2000" between September 26 and October 1, 2000 in Wichita, KS. No direct Burroughs contribution, but Burroughs is included in the cover collage by S. A. Griffin. 

There is also a very Burroughs-like colllage by Charles Plymell [incorporating a skull that also shows up at the inside back cover of his chapbook Journals from Lysidia]. 

Published in Venice, CA. by S. A. Griffin and James Stauffer in January 2000.

This copy was a gift from Jeffrey Weinberg (Water Row Books).

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20000101FOOL.0.1

Selected Contents: 

• S. A. Griffin and James Stauffer: introduction
• S. A. Griffin: cover collage
• Janine Pommy Vega: "American Landscape" (poetry)
• Charles Plymell: 
• collage
• "From Last of the Moccasins" (prose)
• Tom Peters: "America Borealis (for & after Allen Ginsberg)" (poetry)
• Bob Branaman: 
• collage
• "I Painted Over One Hundred Thousand Paintings" (poetry)
• Glenn Todd: "An unpublished excerpt from The Book of Friends: Scenes from Life in Gough" (on McClure)
• Larry Keenan: 
• image of Michael McClure
• photo of Neal Cassady and Ann Marie Maxwell
• Ellyn Maybe: "An Open Letter to Joseph Campbell" (poetry)
• Edward Dorn: "From Gunslinger, Book II" (poetry)
• Marie Countryman: "Call Me Picky" (prose)
• Andy Clausen: "Don't Forget to Laugh" (poetry)
• S. Clay Wilson: illustration
• Dave Quick: "Love Ink Gesture (for Irwin Allen Ginsberg)" (poetry)
• James Stauffer: "The New Mysogyny: A Complaynt of All Mistresses" (poetry)
• Ann Marie Maxwell: "Gough Street" (essay)
• James Ryan Morris: "Elegy for Billy Batman" (poetry)
• Ray Bremser: "from Born Again" (poetry)
• Patrick Joseph O'Connor: "Moody's Skidrow Beanery Kansas Underground from Beat to Hip" (essay)
• L. Metz: illustration
• Dafydd McKaharay: "X New Yorker Rides the Beat/Punk Connection" (essay)
• Howard Hart: "Half Note" (poetry)
• Jack Micheline: "To My Mother Who Is Going Blind" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Publishing and Editing: S. A. Griffin, James Stauffer
• Layout and Design: S. A. Griffin
• Editorial And Layout Assistant: Dafydd McKaharay