Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts

12.09.2023

Untold Tales: The shocking secret history of Europe’s Black ‘Santa Claus’ tradition


Back in 2005, I published a very early draft of my groundbreaking essay "The Secret Santa" in photocopy zine form. Then, in 2012 it was moved online here to the Kung Fu Grip blog, where it would gradually manage to garner some some 2,000+ views. 

Six years later, after I'd established another online home for my writings on Medium in 2017, I published the revised final edition of the essay. If you'd never had the chance to peep it before, I'm making it available now to visitors to the KFG blog by clicking here

Or...if you're like yours truly and just enjoy giving good stuff a re-read, please feel free to return to one of the classics. LOL

Seriously, y'all. After all this time, I still think that "The Secret Santa" is one of the best things that I've ever written. It's certainly one of the pieces of which I am most proud. 

Keep warm. Stay woke. 


2.18.2010

Art of Zines Covered

"Why have something tactile and in 3-D when you can just put a blog up? But it's different; it's in the moment of making these things and putting them out and having something tangible that is never going away. I don't care what anybody says about the end of print. This culture is not going away."

- Cherri Lakey, Anno Domini Gallery

The Art of Zines 2010 was covered today in the San Jose METRO Weekly. Read the full article in the Arts section by clicking here.