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Hello from Kansas on the last day of summer. It’s been raining all morning and the windows of the farm’s library are speckled with little drops like diamonds. The sky is silver green. Very nice. Feels like things are changing and I’m ready for it.

Today I want to tell you about what my friends are up to. A lot of good shit is happening at the moment. I hope it’s happening for you as well.

Here’s the friend news.

See you next Friday.

-AG

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FRIEND NEWS

-Jessie Duke of Bread & Roses Press is now booking events at the ECM in Lawrence, KS. Author tour events? Activist stuff? Punk shows? Good things ahead. If you went to the show I played with Deaf Club there this spring you know the place is rad and radical.

-Burn All Books and Scanners Archive are setting up a physical space as we speak. Really looking forward to seeing it when I’m in San Diego next month. I’ve got another deleted scene risograph print (art by Elizabeth Thompson) in the next B.A.B. Mail Mag. (Learn more here.) Soft opening of the shop is during the Adams Avenue Street Fair on Saturday and Sunday 9/23-9/24. Visit 3131 Adams Ave.

-I said it last week and I’ll say it again because it’s happening as we speak: Lora Mathis and Matty Terrones are touring the West Coast. Find the dates on Instagram. Go to a show. Pick up a book (and buy that book). Tomorrow/Saturday they’re in Berkeley at the Central Library.

-Jon Nix is tabling his press With an X at Genghis Con in November. Cleveland. Nov 26th. With an X’s latest book is Heavy Petting, a coffee-table photobook by Heather Hite.

-Ebony Tusks play at Howdy in Kansas City tonight. Photo here by Fally Afani via iheartlocalmusic.com

-Scott Osment (Satanic Planet, Deaf Club, Planet B, Glassing, etc) and his partner Elliott James Tucker (Eatshirt.Gay) have moved to a farm. I’m excited for them. Up the rural punx.

-The documentary about Justin Pearson, The Locust, and Three One G released by TurnStyle Films, Don’t Fall in Love with Yourself, is now streaming (rental or purchase) via Vimeo and VHX. See myself and lovely creatures like the great Gabe Serbian, Bobby Bray, Becky DiGiglio, and Jose Palafox talk on the screen.

-My Read More Books stickers are back in stock.

-There’s a giveaway happening (today only) at my shop. Buy any book, get a second copy for free. Also, that goes for multiples, e.g. buy three copies of The Internet Newspaper, get three copies free, or ten copies of After Tonight, Everything Will be Different, ten copies free, etc.

-Se Vende is playing 10/16 at Red Brontosaurus in San Diego. Photo here by Dylan Moore.

-If you’re in Denver, The Shop at MATTER got a huge restock of all my things. Hit ‘em up.

-My audio book label Hello America Stereo Cassette announced pre-order this morning for its next release, a book-on-tape of the novella Marigold by Troy James Weaver. Collage art cover and interiors by Elizabeth Thompson. The tape is really fucking good. It’s read by Kelby Losack who has a great voice. Devastator. Beautiful. Also, look at those gold tapes…

-When in Whittier, CA, go to Midnight Books. They have copies of my book After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different now.

-My puppy George learned to “stay” this week.

-Foals are playing Golden Lights festival in Auckland, New Zealand in January.

-Buena Vista Projects is hosting a gallery takeover by the inimitable Dmitry Samarov. Chicago, 9/23 (that’s this Saturday) until 10/22. (Also, hear Dmitry talk about his new book on the Salt Lake Dirt show. And here’s a playlist he did based around the book at Largeheartedboy.)

-Deaf Club has a pedal now. Their Bad Tones Forever fuzz/drone/tremolo pedal was designed in collaboration with Dirty Haggard Audio. It’s available on their upcoming tour with Converge and at The Midnight Hour shop in Covina. Art is by Paul Rentler, whose work is really fucking cool in case you haven’t seen it yet. Photo here of Justin Pearson and a good crowd by my great friend Becky DiGiglio.