OVO

October 1989. Approximately 300 numbered copies. 84 pages. 11 inches by 8.5 inches. Black and white photocopy.

Dreamachines, copyrights, censorship, Muzak, abortion, Mike Gunderloy, Kerry Wendell Thornley, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Walter Alter, Ryan Gray, Marko Constans, Tom Chan, secret theater, Hakim Bey, Liberating Wednesday by PM, Who Am I? by Jim Scianna, Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, Jeff Holland, Miserablism and Anti-Miserablism in 1986 by Penelope Rosemont and Joseph Jablonski, Texas Department of Corrections Correspondence Rules.  First publication of Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism by Hakim Bey, later published in T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone.

Front cover depicts Human cells infected with HIV.  The following year, Ronald Regan would apologize for neglecting AIDS during his term as President. See also Lunalogue from OVO 3 1987.  Text was written on a typewriter then enlarged on a photocopy machine.

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• The Meta-Network by Mike Gunderloy.
• Don’t Talk to Cops by Robert Zeuner. This may or may not be sound legal advice; consult a professional before following any of the suggestions made here.
• Ringing Denunciation of Surrealism by Hakim Bey. This article was produced with an electric typewriter. Essays on surrealism were hard to come by in 1989 (at least for me) and I was glad to have the chance to print one, even an argument against surrealism. This is the first publication of this essay, later published in T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone.
• Apple/Pineapple by Chris Cilla.  See also OVO 15 SPERM (February 2005).
• The Gentrification of Pain by A. Z. Dippe.
• Liberating Wednesday by PM. This is the first and so far only time this essay by the author of bolo’bolo has been published. In a letter dated 16 June 1989, PM wrote “On the ‘reformist’ side one of my newer ideas was to push for a non-economic Wednesday [...] Feel free to use the idea and/or the text. It would be much better to write a text that fits in your specific situation, of course. I’m trying to spread the idea worldwide (together with bolo’bolo, it’s all linked) [...] I hope your ovo-bolo will transform into a big bird, like an ostrich or so.” The idea of an annual ‘buy nothing day’ became popular years later, but liberating Wednesday is an idea fifty-two times as challenging.
• Lights = Camera = Action and Densest? by Walter Alter. Background is television listing from local newspaper. This text was on the first I ever received on computer disk (a 5.25 inch floppy for PC, which I couldn’t use for years). Walter also hosted one of the first BBS I ever called.

OVO is a collection of new works in the public domain edited and published by Trevor Blake since 1987. New issues are in progress.