If I can be perfectly honest with you for a moment, the whole point of having a little literary zine, is to throw nasty, death-defying parties.
The release party for SPACE SQUID issue seven is going to be this Saturday, at Frugal Media, 5400 N.Lamar, Austin, TX.
There will be FREE BEER and FREE SNACKS!!!
Here’s the order of events:
1pm Folding and Stapling Party
I put "Bikini Bloodbath" on my Netflix queue, so we will probably be watching that on my laptop while doing the grotesque monkey work of folding and stapling the zine.
3pm Zombie Simulation
You know how in the movies people smash zombie heads with all sorts of things they just happen to have lying around? Haven’t you ever wondered just how hard it would be to smash a head, I mean really smash it? Well, as it happens, heads are relatively cheap in Austin. $3.49 each at the Fiesta. So I’m going to throw together a zombie armature and we’re going to put this head smashing to the test. Feel free to bring your own implements. I’ve got a wooden samurai practice sword, but somebody is going to have to bring a baseball bat, a cricket bat, a machete, etc. Just no projectiles or firearms. You can shoot your own head in the privacy of your own home, so try and keep my heads out of it.
5pm Improv Fiction
We’ve done this at the last couple of parties. We wrangle some poor writers and force them to write a piece of flash fiction, using audience-generated plot points, with only a few minutes to scribble down their prose. Maybe this year I’ll bring something along that will be worth winning.
And of course there will be FREE BEER and FREE FOOD! And there will be the newest issue of SPACE SQUID, completely free (mostly) of giant alien space penis.
But more on that later. There will be DAILY SPACE SQUID BLOG POSTS until the party on Saturday. So keep tuned, squid pals.